Skip to page content

Meteorology and Weather

Journal Article
Economic Losses from Extreme Weather in the U.S. Gulf Coast Region: Spatially Differential Contributions of Climate Hazard and Socioeconomic Exposure and Vulnerability
A novel socio-climate hazard typology (SCT) was developed that integrates locally defined climate hazard and socioeconomic exposure and social vulnerability typologies. We regressed the SCT types and their constituent hazard and socioeconomic components against the cumulative economic loss from extreme weather events in order to attribute economic losses to different interactions among climate hazards, socioeconomic exposure, and vulnerability.
May 12, 2020
Report
Environment, Geography, and the Future of Warfare
Some of the most significant environmental and geographic trends that could affect U.S. national security and the future of warfare are rising global temperatures, the opening of the Arctic, sea level rise, extreme weather events, water scarcity, and increasing urbanization.
May 11, 2020
Tool
Chesapeake Bay Watershed Climate Impacts Summary and Outlook: Winter 2019-2020
This web-based tool aims to inform Chesapeake Bay Watershed policymakers, practitioners, and community leaders on Winter 2019-2020 climate, as well as projected future climate trends. An interactive tool shows percentage change in freeze-thaw days.
Mar 23, 2020
Journal Article
Quantifying the Relationship Between Streamflow and Climate Change in a Small Basin Under Future Scenarios
This study focuses on simulating change in streamflow within a small basin under future land use/cover change and climate scenarios by integrating logistic regression-CA-Markov model and the Soil Water Assessment Tool model.
Mar 6, 2020
Dissertation
Indian Summer: Three Essays on Heatwave Vulnerability, Estimation and Adaptation
Explores how future heatwaves in India may vary over time and geography and estimate the impact they might have on mortality.
Dec 23, 2019
Tool
Chesapeake Bay Watershed Climate Impacts Summary and Outlook: Fall 2019
This climate summary informs Chesapeake Bay stakeholders on Fall 2019's climate and weather as well as projected climate trends. Hurricane damage in the Mid-Atlantic and changes in hurricane frequency and intensity are shown in interactive figures.
Dec 17, 2019
Tool
Chesapeake Bay Watershed Climate Impacts Summary and Outlook: Summer 2019
This web-based tool aims to inform Chesapeake Bay Watershed policymakers, practitioners, and community leaders on Summer 2019 climate, as well as projected future climate trends. Analysis of extreme heat data are shown on interactive figures.
Sep 18, 2019
Journal Article
Ensemble-Based Flood Vulnerability Assessment for Probable Maximum Flood in a Changing Environment
A high-resolution hydro-meteorologic model was used to develop probabilistic flood maps representing the response of indices of rainfall extremes, probable maximum precipitation (PMP) and probable maximum flood (PMF), to climate change.
Jun 28, 2019
Commentary
Mitigating India's Climate-Change Misery
Despite years of dire forecasts, the international community has been unable to halt the steady climb in global temperatures, and it is the world's poorest who are paying the heaviest toll. As heat-related risks intensify, those living on the margins—in India and elsewhere—will need help to cope effectively.
Oct 11, 2018
Commentary
Staying Cool as the Globe Warms
Studies suggest that the heat of the future will exceed humans' capacity to cope. But taking advantage of smart technology, inexpensive traditional methods of cooling that require little energy use, and innovative energy-efficient technologies could provide a sustainable path forward in heat-challenged regions.
Apr 23, 2018
Journal Article
The Not-So-Marginal Value of Weather Warning Systems
This paper uses conditional variation in the initial broadcast dates of NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards (NWR) transmitters to produce cross-sectional and fixed effects estimates of the causal impact of expanding the NWR transmitter network.
Jan 4, 2018
Commentary
How Hot Is Too Hot? Rising Temperatures and the Workplace
Climate change is here. Future extreme heat waves are a given and will likely grow in intensity, geographic reach, and duration. Plans must be made now to ensure survival of the poorest, to protect outdoor workers, and to adapt economic planning to what is increasingly becoming a hotter planet.
Nov 16, 2017
Commentary
Weather Forecasts, and Our Trust in Them, Need to Improve
When scientists predict extreme weather that never materializes, lay people tend to wonder what went wrong. This is a natural tendency that is not tied to a failure of the science, but rather to differences in the way scientists and lay people view predictions about extreme events.
Oct 8, 2013
Commentary
Removing Road Blocks to Climate Change Adaptation Planning
Despite increasing interest and investments in climate adaptation science, the implementation of adaptation plans through institutional policies or other actions designed to reduce health vulnerabilities has been slow. Institutionalized assumptions are an important roadblock.
Oct 3, 2013
Report
Wind Insurance Costly and Scarce on Gulf of Mexico Coast
Many businesses along the Gulf of Mexico coast have had a difficult time obtaining wind insurance coverage since Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma hit in 2005 and have often ended up paying more than twice as much for the insurance as they did previously.
Jul 15, 2007
Journal Article
MANTRA ‐ a Balloon Mission to Study the Odd‐nitrogen Budget of the Stratosphere
The Middle Atmosphere Nitrogen TRend Assessment (MANTRA) series of high-altitude balloon flights is being undertaken to investigate changes in the concentrations of northern hemisphere mid-latitude stratospheric ozone, and of nitrogen and chlorine compounds that play a role in ozone chemistry.
Jan 1, 2005
Journal Article
Ground‐based Measurements of Ozone and NO₂ During MANTRA 1998 Using a Zenith‐sky Spectrometer
Zenith-sky spectra in the near ultraviolet and visible wavelength regions were recorded for a period of seven days, prior to and following the launch of the MANTRA balloon on 24 August 1998.
Jan 1, 2005
Journal Article
Retrieval of Stratospheric NO₂ Vertical Profiles from Ground‐based Zenith‐sky DOAS Measurements: Results for the MANTRA 1998 Field Campaign
We use the optimal estimation method developed by Rodgers to retrieve NO2 vertical profiles from slant column observations.
Jan 1, 2005
Commentary
Storms Blow, But We Can Cut Losses
Published commentary by RAND staff.
Sep 16, 2004
Journal Article
Heat or Eat? Cold-Weather Shocks and Nutrition in Poor American Families
The authors sought to determine the effects of cold-weather periods on budgets and nutritional outcomes among poor American families.
Jan 1, 2003

Previous
1
2
3
4
Next

Research conducted by