The role of insolation as an instigator for crack initiation in rock is still a continuously perplexing topic. An immense amount of data has been collected on the influen[...]

As metropolitan areas around the world grow, conservationists are managing more habitats adjacent to or within urban areas. Increased impervious surfaces and more abundan[...]

Supercell thunderstorms, while rare, occur most frequently in the Great Plains region of the central United States, and are often responsible for extreme severe weather, [...]

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 miti[...]

Mechanical weathering –aka physical weathering; the process by which rock is broken down into smaller pieces --is one of the first modifications rock undergoes once it ap[...]

Greenhouse gases’ continuously increasing emissions have a variety of implications for the future of our climate patterns. This includes potential changes in the northern[...]

Duke Energy customers frequently experience electrical power outages caused by thunderstorms that produce strong surface winds and subsequently damage power distribution [...]

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 tropica[...]

We evaluate the statistical relationship between ENSO state and global seasonal temperature and precipitation, creating and analyzing maps of the linear correlation betwe[...]

As temperatures continue to increase all over the world, extreme weather events and the extreme observations associated with them are becoming more prevalent. This should[...]