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The 2009-2010 El Niño: Hydrologic Relief to U.S. Regions

Tootle, G. A.; Piechota, T. C.; Aziz, O.; Miller, W. P.; Lakshmi, V.; Dracup, J. A.; Jerla, C. (2009-12-15)

Current forecasts by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are that the Pacific Ocean will experience El Niño conditions in late 2009 and into 2010. These forecasts are similar to past El Niño ...
Block-level vulnerability assessment reveals disproportionate impacts of natural hazards across the conterminous United States

Yarveysi, Farnaz; Alipour, Atieh; Moftakhari, Hamed; Jafarzadegan, Keighobad; Moradkhani, Hamid (Nature Portfolio, 2023)

The global increase in the frequency, intensity, and adverse impacts of natural hazards on societies and economies necessitates comprehensive vulnerability assessments at regional to national scales. Despite considerable ...
Cement substitution with secondary materials can reduce annual global CO2 emissions by up to 1.3 gigatons

Shah, Izhar Hussain; Miller, Sabbie A.; Jiang, Daqian; Myers, Rupert J. (Nature Portfolio, 2022)

Population and development megatrends will drive growth in cement production, which is already one of the most challenging-to-mitigate sources of CO2 emissions. However, availabilities of conventional secondary cementitious ...
Comparison of RUSLE and MMF Soil Loss Models and Evaluation of Catchment Scale Best Management Practices for a Mountainous Watershed in India

Das, Susanta; Deb, Proloy; Bora, Pradip Kumar; Katre, Prafull (MDPI, 2020)

Soil erosion from arable lands removes the top fertile soil layer (comprised of humus/organic matter) and therefore requires fertilizer application which affects the overall sustainability. Hence, determination of soil ...
Coupled oceanic-atmospheric variability and U.S. streamflow

Tootle, GA; Piechota, TC; Singh, A (American Geophysical Union, 2005-12-06)

[1] A study of the influence of interdecadal, decadal, and interannual oceanic-atmospheric influences on streamflow in the United States is presented. Unimpaired streamflow was identified for 639 stations in the United ...
Development of a field testing protocol for identifying Deepwater Horizon oil spill residues trapped near Gulf of Mexico beaches

Han, Yuling; Clement, T. Prabhakar (PLOS, 2018)

The Deepwater Horizon (DWH) accident, one of the largest oil spills in U.S. history, contaminated several beaches located along the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) shoreline. The residues from the spill still continue to be deposited ...
Does Global Progress on Sanitation Really Lag behind Water? An Analysis of Global Progress on Community- and Household-Level Access to Safe Water and Sanitation

Cumming, Oliver; Elliott, Mark; Overbo, Alycia; Bartram, Jamie (PLOS, 2014)

Safe drinking water and sanitation are important determinants of human health and wellbeing and have recently been declared human rights by the international community. Increased access to both were included in the Millennium ...
Estimated Wind River Range (Wyoming, USA) Glacier Melt Water Contributions to Agriculture

Cheesbrough, Kyle; Edmunds, Jake; Tootle, Glenn; Kerr, Greg; Pochop, Larry (MDPI, 2009-10-28)

In 2008, Wyoming was ranked 8th in barley production and 20th in hay production in the United States and these crops support Wyoming's $800 million cattle industry. However, with a mean elevation of 2,040 meters, much of ...
Five Hundred Years of Hydrological Drought in the Upper Colorado River Basin

Timilsena, Janak; Piechota, Thomas C.; Hidalgo, Hugo; Tootle, Glenn (2007-06)

This article evaluates drought scenarios of the Upper Colorado River basin (UCRB) considering multiple drought variables for the past 500 years and positions the current drought in terms of the magnitude and frequency. ...
GIS-Enabled Culvert Design: A Case Study in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Greer, Ashton D.; Wilbanks, Zachary B.; Clifton, Leah D.; Wilson, Bradford; Graettinger, Andrew J. (Hindawi, 2018)

A GIS-enabled culvert design module is presented. This module employs Python programming to combine a proposed culvert location, topography, land use, and rainfall data to automatically design a culvert. The module is ...
Greening China Naturally

Cao, Shixiong; Sun, Ge; Zhang, Zhiqiang; Chen, Liding; Feng, Qi; Fu, Bojie; McNulty, Steve; Shankman, David; Tang, Jianwu; Wang, Yanhui; Wei, Xiaohua (Springer, 2011)

China leads the world in afforestation, and is one of the few countries whose forested area is increasing. However, this massive "greening" effort has been less effective than expected; afforestation has sometimes produced ...
How can we reform the STEM tenure system for the 21st Century?

Clement, T. Prabhakar (National Academy of the Sciences, 2022)
How did the COVID-19 pandemic affect road crashes and crash outcomes in Alabama?

Adanu, Emmanuel Kofi; Brown, David; Jones, Steven; Parrish, Allen (Pergamon, 2021)

With the rising number of cases and deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic, nations and local governments, including many across the U.S., imposed travel restrictions on their citizens. This travel restriction order led to a ...
Identification of Pacific Ocean sea surface temperature influences of Upper Colorado River Basin snowpack

Aziz, Oubeidillah A.; Tootle, Glenn A.; Gray, Stephen T.; Piechota, Thomas C. (American Geophysical Union, 2010-07-27)

Given the importance of Upper Colorado River Basin (UCRB) snowpack as the primary driver of streamflow (water supply) for the southwestern United States, the identification of Pacific Ocean climatic drivers (e. g., sea ...
An in-depth analysis of head-on crash severity and fatalities in Ghana

Adanu, Emmanuel Kofi; Agyemang, William; Lidbe, Abhay; Adarkwa, Offei; Jones, Steven (Cell Press, 2023)

Head-on collisions are often linked to more serious injuries compared to other types of crashes, due to the intense impact they cause. In low-and middle-income countries, these collisions frequently involve high occupancy ...
Integrated socio-environmental vulnerability assessment of coastal hazards using data-driven and multi-criteria analysis approaches

Tanim, Ahad Hasan; Goharian, Erfan; Moradkhani, Hamid (Nature Portfolio, 2022)

Coastal hazard vulnerability assessment has been centered around the multi-variate analysis of geo-physical and hydroclimate data. The representation of coupled socio-environmental factors has often been ignored in ...
A knowledge graph-based method for epidemic contact tracing in public transportation

Chen, Tian; Zhang, Yimu; Qian, Xinwu; Li, Jian (Pergamon, 2022)

Contact tracing is an effective measure by which to prevent further infections in public transportation systems. Considering the large number of people infected during the COVID-19 pandemic, digital contact tracing is ...
A large-scale, high-resolution hydrological model parameter data set for climate change impact assessment for the conterminous US

Oubeidillah, A. A.; Kao, S. -C.; Ashfaq, M.; Naz, B. S.; Tootle, G. (Copernicus GmbH, 2014-01-07)

To extend geographical coverage, refine spatial resolution, and improve modeling efficiency, a computation and data-intensive effort was conducted to organize a comprehensive hydrologic data set with post-calibrated model ...
Mobile device use while crossing the street: Utilizing the theory of planned behavior

Piazza, Andrew J.; Knowlden, Adam P.; Hibberd, Elizabeth; Leeper, James; Paschal, Angelia M.; Usdan, Stuart (Pergamon, 2019)

Every year, thousands of pedestrians are killed and tens-of-thousands are nonfatally injured as a result of traffic crashes. The year 2016 holds the record for the most pedestrians killed in one year since 1990. Mobile ...
Oceanic-atmospheric variability and western US snowfall

Hunter, Thad; Tootle, Glenn; Piechota, Thomas (American Geophysical Union, 2006-07-08)

A study of the influences of interdecadal and interannual oceanic-atmospheric influences on April 1 Snow-Water Equivalent (SWE) in the western U. S. is presented. SWE data was identified at 323 Natural Resources Conservation ...

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