BACKGROUND Studies on natural hazard mortality are most often hazard-specific (e.g. floods, earthquakes, heat), event specific (e.g. Hurricane Katrina), or lack adequate temporal or geographic coverage. This makes it difficult to assess mortality from natural hazards in any systematic way. This paper examines the spatial patterns of natural hazard mortality at the county-level for the U.S. from...

Earth Observations (EO) encompasses different types of sensors (e.g., Synthetic Aperture Radar, Laser Imaging Detection and Ranging, Optical and multispectral) and platforms (e.g., satellites, aircraft, and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) and enables us to monitor and model geohazards over regions at different scales in which ground observations may not be possible due to physical and/or political co...

The lives and livelihoods of people around the world are increasingly threatened by climate-related risks as climate change increases frequency severity high-impact weather. In turn, risk multiple hazards occurring simultaneously grows compound impacts become more likely. World Meteorological Organization (WMO) proposed use multi-hazard impact-based forecasting (IbF) to better anticipate reduce...

Freezing rain is a major atmospheric hazard in mid-latitude nations of the globe. Among all Canadian hydrometeorological hazards, freezing rain is associated with the highest damage costs per event. Using synoptic weather typing to identify the occurrence of freezing rain events, this study estimates changes in future freezing rain events under future climate scenarios for south-central Canada....

Solar radio bursts (SRBs) are the signatures of various phenomenon that happen in solar corona and interplanetary medium (IPM). In this article, we have studied occurrence Type III their association with Sunspot number. This study confirms correlate well Further, using data obtained e-CALLISTO network, investigated drift rates isolated duration group bursts. Since II, IV flares and/or CMEs, can...

Extreme weather events, particularly floods and heat waves, annually affect millions of people and cause billions of dollars of damage. In 2003, in Europe, Canada, and the United States, floods and storms caused 15 deaths and US$2.97 billion in total damages, and the extended heat wave in Europe caused more than 20,000 excess deaths (1); the impacts in developing countries were substantially la...