United States of America

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This report summarizes the current scientific information on climate trends and projections within New Jersey.
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This study constructs an event-specific flood damage cost estimation framework for transit systems, simulating separately flood ingress into underground spaces.
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This article investigates how hospitalization risks from tropical cyclones in Florida varied across individuals and communities. It found that higher poverty, lower homeownership, and denser communities were associated with higher hospitalization rates.
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This research draws on focus group data to map residents' understandings of the infosphere of Interior Alaska throughout the stages of wildfire events. Fire communicators can best cater to these audiences by using a tailored approach.
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This report explores the opportunities and solutions for reducing the financial, human, and resource costs that wildfires pose to communities throughout Montana.
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This study reports strong and increasing correlations between temperature and CO2 levels, and with the economic cost of disasters in the US.
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This study aims to evaluate the variability in the model simulations caused by the cross-sectional orientations in using light detection and ranging (LiDAR) for flood modelling.
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​​​​​​​This paper investigated the change in sequential tropical cyclones hazards using both historical observations and climate simulations. It finds that the chance of sequential TC hazards has been increasing over the past decades at many US locations.

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