Hurricane Sandy landed right on top of Dr. Tracy Quirk's wetland monitoring stations – but it wasn't all bad news.
Environment
Oct 8, 2013
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In a year-long case study of a major American transportation company, researchers at The Ohio State University have uncovered the strategies that helped the company maintain safety and meet customer demand during 2012's Hurricane ...
Economics & Business
Oct 2, 2013
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When forecasters from the National Weather Service track a hurricane, they use models from several different supercomputers located around the world to create their predictions.
Earth Sciences
May 29, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Hurricane Sandy came ashore in northern New Jersey Oct. 29, 2012, and as the powerful storm made its way along the East Coast it brought damage to NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va. The Wallops ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 6, 2013
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(Phys.org) —If you believe that last October's Superstorm Sandy was a freak of nature—the confluence of unusual meteorological, atmospheric and celestial events—think again.
Earth Sciences
Mar 5, 2013
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USC scientists who track Internet outages throughout the world noted a spike in outages due to Hurricane Sandy, with almost twice as much of the Internet down in the U.S. as usual.
Telecom
Dec 18, 2012
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As Hurricane Sandy battered the East Coast in late October, members of the hotel community reevaluated trends the tourism industry can expect in the upcoming months.
Earth Sciences
Dec 7, 2012
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Several weeks after Hurricane Sandy made landfall on the East Coast, the devastation is still being felt—particularly in hard-hit sections of New York and New Jersey. The storm has also raised ...
Environment
Nov 15, 2012
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Extreme weather phenomena are starting to show signs of a regular pattern: instead of taking place every 10 or 20 years, they are happening every 2 or 3 years. But technology can stay one step ahead, by predicting when these ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 14, 2012
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(Phys.org)—When millions of people are bracing themselves for the onslaught of extreme weather, as much information as possible is needed to predict the strength of the impending storm. ESA's SMOS mission again showed its ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 9, 2012
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