Over the last two decades, general aviation pilots in the United States, especially those who fly light fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters, have portrayed high rates of vulnerability to weather-related accidents. This high vulnerability rate is i...
Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) and Wildland fires cause damages to infrastructure and the environment, resulting in loss of life, property, and an increasing cost of mitigation. Firebrands are known as one of the leading fire spread mechanisms in ...
The Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), a belt of convective systems around the equator with showers and thunderstorms, is an important feature not only to the tropical societies whose water budget depends on it, but also to the atmospheric sci...
Forests are increasingly affected by a variety of environmental disturbances, including emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) and wildfire, which have caused extensive tree mortality in forest biomass worldwide. Those two types of disturbances may i...
