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snapstream • September 29, 2022
Right now we are for me with a Category 3, a Category 4 and sometimes a Category 5. Are we entering a period where there will be a Category 6 and perhaps 7 storm? And if so, what will that look like?[…]
wfae • November 4, 2021
Nations have agreed to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius by the end of the century, but right now they’re not close to reaching that goal. So why is that number so important, and what happens if the world gets hotter than that? […]
deepconvection • August 16, 2022
Gabe’s scientific career led him from his undergraduate studies at Rutgers to graduate school at the University of Washington, and then from NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle to its Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton.[…]
Rapid Intensification • July 8, 2022
On October 10th, 2018, Hurricane Michael became the fourth-strongest hurricane by wind speed to make landfall in the contiguous U.S. It was a category five storm, with sustained winds of 160 mph […]
Rapid Intensification • July 8, 2022
Many of us in the meteorological community were taken aback by this breathtaking infrared image, showing a satellite presentation that is unrivaled among tropical cyclones. […]
Rapid Intensification • July 8, 2022
The result of this rapid growth is a very high population density in coastal counties—about six times that of the rest of the country. […]
NPR • september 29, 2022
Hurricane Ian and Typhoon Noru strengthened quickly before landfall. NPR’s Rachel Martin talks to Princeton University professor Gabriel Vecchi […]
Rapid Intensification • June 12, 2022
Sometimes people can trace their career choice back to a memorable event. For me it was September 5th, 1979. After making landfall […]
Harvard t.h. chan • June 22, 2022
Thousands of community health centers and free clinics across the U.S. care for millions of our nation’s uninsured or underinsured patients. […]
abcnews • October 5, 2021
Climate scientists agree that hurricanes will become more intense as a result of climate change, but whether there will be more of them is trickier to say […]
Buenos Días América • september 8, 2020
Este martes en Buenos Días América, hablamos con el senador demócrata Bob Menéndez, además, los incencios en California no cesan, para eso hablamos con Gabriel Vecchio[…]
WHYY • september 8, 2017
As Irma moves toward the Florida, we’ll talk with Princeton University geoscientist, GABRIEL VECCHI, about the hurricane, storm prediction and the role of climate change[…]
Scientists have long known that certain phenomena like rising seas and warmer temperatures are caused by climate change. […]
AGU • September 29, 2022
We analyzed how hurricane landfalls affect flooding risks to hospitals that serve highly populated cities on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States […]
Harvard t.h. chan • September 29, 2022
Boston, MA – The first study to systematically investigate flooding risk to hospitals on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts from Category 1-4 storms […]
harvard t.h. chan • September 29, 2022
Recent storms have devastated hospital infrastructure. Hurricanes can disrupt health care delivery through power outages, supply […]
ny times • June 12, 2022
In a third of the 78 cities examined on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, half or more of hospitals were at risk from a Category 2 storm […]
INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS • October 3, 2022
Researchers have identified nearly 700 vulnerable hospitals in metropolitan areas along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts […]
the world • August 25, 2017
During natural disasters like Hurricane Harvey, a single question has become a common refrain: What role did climate change play? […]