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Meteorology

(vertical levels, horizontal grid spacing, and temporal), computational domain (what values go in the equations), and coordinate s...

A Brief History on the Most Devastating U.S. Hurricanes

While a relatively weak hurricane would have done little damage in our earlier history either in terms of lives taken or in terms ...

The 2006 Hurricane Season: The Importance of Predictions

managers. Pre-planning is one of the most critical components of disaster preparedness. Hurricane preparations must begin months...

Cause and Effect Used to Justify More Helicopter Services to a Pacific Island Prone to Natural Disasters

days, whereas for a flood or tsunami their may not be a warning at all. The immediate effects of a disaster can be mixed. If there...

The Impact Of Hurricane Andrew

scholarly catalogs; journals will include - but not be limited to - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Journal of En...

Stereotypes and Class

the continued existence of racism also has an effect on the African Americans, and this effect is to make them highly aware of rac...

Hurricane Relief and Waterproof Fabrics

waterproof fabrics or creating a list of likely contributors to NGOs, which then will acquire necessary materials. Outdoor Fabrics...

Critique of Hurricane Wind Shelter Construction for Existing Homes

Safe Room, the conclusion is that more individuals will be able to retro fit their house with this shelter. This would in turn al...

Cape Fear Water Quality and Waste Management

were more than 25 million gallons of waste involved (Mallin, 2000, p.26). This occurred on one particular day, but the days follow...

Ecological Crisis of the Earth

ozone layer is that portion of the Earths atmosphere that contains high concentration of ozone (Busman and Belen). This exists in ...

Do Humans Manage Information Systems or are Information Systems Managing Humans?

dependent on their computers could not work. Information systems manage us, not the other way around. Information systems affec...

Data Mining and Hurricanes

and Peats (2000) river vortex example, they meet points of bifurcation requiring that they divert course in one direction or anoth...

Hurricane Outward Bound School Marketing

years later. 2.1 Current Market and Marketing The school operates in the outward bound market. Set up as a non profit making org...

Hurricane Impact of El Nino

Hemisphere (Jackson State University, 2005). Hurricanes form incrementally -- beginning as a tropical disturbance, then a ...

USING BAYESIAN THEORY TO DETERMINE A POTENTIAL OUTCOME

of a hurricane occurring to any degree of accuracy). The theorem helps us better understand what were up against and tries to elim...

Natural Disasters

atmosphere and at the same time, it releases drier and cooler air into the atmosphere (The American National Red Cross, 2001). The...

Continuity Planning for Small Business

Though the sheer volume of information at the site is daunting, it is an ideal place to begin learning about disaster recovery in ...

Events That Damage a Business

Businesses are at risk for many different disruptions. Natural disasters like hurricanes and tornadoes and human-made disasters li...

Hurricane Island Outward Bound School Marketing

outside the boundaries of the United States, and certainly outside the boundaries of Maine. At present, the Hurricane Islan...

Studying Hurricanes

month" (Klotzbach and Gray 1109). In light of this, the authors note that "based on hindcasting results from 1950 to 2000, 30%-75%...

Meteorological Consideration of Hurricane Andrew

upon the Camp Verde Islands on August 15, the wave formed into a tropical depression the very next day that steadily gain strength...

Hurricanes and Disaster Preparedness

The news media is a necessary addition to the planning and regulatory agencies. It will be the medias job to make the public awar...

Courts and Corruption

ex-sports stars has come about in recent years. Since the advent of new technology which allows DNA matching, many death row inmat...

Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter's Trial Coverage

This paper contrasts and compares African American and mainstream media's depictions of 'Hurricane' Carter's trial in eight pages....

Devastation and Preparedness for Hurricanes

to result in a tight curl which eventually reaches gale force winds. It is at this point that a tropical storm is formed. Hurric...

The Hurricane Film Review

irrelevant information that is meant to "incite hatred or contempt" (How to Deal with Racism in the Media). Clearly, the movie ta...

Casualty Reinsurance and Property

In eight pages this paper examines the devastation of 1992's Hurricane Andrew in a consideration of the changes implemented betwee...

Florida Law Enforcement's Role in the 1995 Hurricane Season

In five pages this paper examines Florida's 1995 hurricane season and the need for increased police intervention during this criti...

Beaches and Adverse Weather Effects

In seven pages the formation of beaches is discussed in terms of sand properties and beach profiles with a consideration of how we...

Assessing the Successes and Failures in the Government Response to Katrina

This paper argues that effective emergency response rests on the decisions that were made prior to the actual emergency ever occur...