Abstract Open pine ( Pinus spp.) savannas are home to the federally endangered red‐cockaded woodpecker Leuconotopicus borealis ). Frequent fires essential for maintaining open canopy and wiregrass Aristida stricta ) groundcover preferred by these woodpeckers, which face ongoing threats from climate change, hurricanes, land use change. Our objective was project future changes in habitat woodpeck...

Hurricanes Erin, Opal, Luis, Marilyn, and Roxanne were the most destructive hurricanes of 1995. At landfall, Luis and Marilyn contained maximum sustained winds (marine exposure) estimated at near 60 and 46 m s21, respectively. The strongest landfalling storm of the 1995 season, Luis, decreased in intensity from a category 4 to 3 on the Saffir–Simpson scale shortly before the eyewall crossed the...

Abstract Both hurricanes and nor’easters can be destructive deadly. The current study investigates whether, when all other features of a storm warning message are held constant, people perceive the risks posed by differently whether these differences affect their attitudes decisions about taking protective action. We conducted an online experiment involving 1,700 Americans residing in northeast...

giving way to near-neutral ENSO conditions for the remainder of the year. Despite the cessation of El Niño during the boreal spring, the ENSO warm event affected regional precipitation anomalies over a broad area of the Pacific basin, including wet anomalies along the west coast of South America, and dry anomalies in eastern Australia, the southwest Pacific, and Hawaii. The global mean surface ...

Hurricanes are large-scale disturbances with the potential to exert extensive damage in coastal ecosystems. On August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina catastrophically impacted a large area of the Gulf of Mexico spreading from coastal Alabama to Louisiana. For five months before hurricane landfall we were assessing the structure and functioning of a mixed seagrass bed located in an area greatly affec...

[1] The spaceborne 94 GHz radar onboard the CloudSat polar orbiting satellite offers new opportunities in estimating parameters of precipitating cloud systems including hurricanes. CloudSat measurements can resolve the vertical extent of storms and hurricanes, thus providing a view of their complex structure. These measurements can be used to retrieve with high spatial resolution rainfall and i...