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In slow-moving hurricanes, the danger comes from all the water

Posted on September 1, 2012 by Anne Jefferson

When Hurricane Isaac passed over New Orleans as a Category 1 storm on the seventh anniversary of the disastrous Hurricane Katrina, everyone in the US let out a big sigh of relief. A category 1 storm, the lowest level of … Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, geohazards, hydrology

One recipe for flooding: Take a tropical cyclone and add steep topography

Posted on September 11, 2011 by Anne Jefferson

The past few weeks have brought two tropical cyclones* to the eastern seaboard of the United States. They serve nicely to illustrate the topographic controls on flood generation that we were been talking about in my Fluvial Processes class recently. … Continue reading →