Recent Hazards Research

Peer-Reviewed Journals

2011 Sherman-Morris, K., Jason Senkbeil, Robert Carver (2011) Who's Googling What? What Internet Searches Reveal about Hurricane Information Seeking. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 92, 975–985. [Abstract]

2011 Dixon, P. G., A. E. Mercer, J. Choi, and J. S. Allen, 2011: Tornado Risk Analysis: Is Dixie Alley an extension of Tornado Alley? Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 92, 433–441.

2010 Shafer, C. M., Mercer, A. E., Leslie, L. M., Richman, M. B., and C. A. Doswell, 2010:  Evaluation of WRF model simulations of tornadic and nontornadic outbreaks occurring in the spring and fall. Monthly Weather Review, 138, 4098-4119. [Abstract]

2010 Ambinakudige, S. and S. Khanal, 2010, Assessment of Impacts of Hurricane Katrina on NPP Production in Mississippi. Earth Interactions (Abstract).

2010 Ashworth, A., D. Evans, W. Cooke, A. Londo, C. Collins, and A. Neuenschwander, 2010.  Predicting southeastern forest canopy heights and fire fuel models using GLAS data, Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, Vol. 76, No. 8, August 2010, pp. 915-922. [Abstract]

2010 Aylward, R.P., and J.L. Dyer, 2010: Synoptic conditions necessary for convective extreme precipitation training events. Weather & Forecasting, 25, 466–484. [Abstract]

2010 Sherman-Morris, K. (2010) Tornado Warning Dissemination and Response at a University Campus. Natural Hazards. 52(3): 623-638. [Abstract]

2010 Grala, K., and W. H. Cooke, 2010, Spatial and temporal characteristics of wildfires in Mississippi, USA, International Journal of Wildland Fire, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 14–28. [Abstract]

2009 Mercer, A. E., C. M. Shafer, C. A. Doswell, M. B. Richman, and L. M. Leslie, 2009:  Objective classification of tornadic and non-tornadic severe weather outbreaks.  Mon. Wea. Rev., 137, 4355–4368.

2009 Choi, J. and W.H. Cooke, and M.D. Stevens, 2009, Development of Water Budget Management System for Fire Potential Mapping, Geographic Information Science and Remote Sensing. Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 1-15.

2009 Choi, J. and J. Lee, “3D Geo-Network for Agent-based Building Evacuation Simulation”, In 3D Geo-Information Sciences, J. Lee and S. Zlatanova (Eds). Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography, Springer. pp. 283-299.

2009 Rodgers, J. C., III, Murrah, A. W. and Cooke, W. H., 2009. The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on the Coastal Vegetation of the Weeks Bay Reserve, Alabama from NDVI Data. Estuaries and Coasts, 32(3): 496-507.[Abstract] [Full Text]

2009 Shafer, C. M., A. E. Mercer, C. A. Doswell, M. B. Richman, and L. M. Leslie, 2009:  Evaluation of tornadic and nontornadic outbreaks when initialized with synoptic scale input.  Monthly Weather Review, 137, 1250-1271.

2008 Dixon, P. G., M. E. Brown, M. C. Carter, W. S. Gunter, J. S. Allen, A. M. Hayes, L. E. Becker, H. S. Eschete, R. P. Aylward, and K. N. Scheitlin, 2008: Predicting Atlantic hurricane paths using monthly surface pressure data, The Geographical Bulletin, 49, 77–86.

2008 Dixon, P. G., Goodrich, G. B. and Cooke, W. H., 2008. Using teleconnections to predict wildfires in Mississippi. Monthly Weather Review, 136(7): 2804-2811.[Abstract]

2008 Goggins, G. and J. Choi, 2008, Urban Heat Island Phenomenon: Relationship between Urban Size and Surface Temperature, Journal of The Korean Geographical Society, Vol. 42, No. 4. pp. 1-10.2008 Mercer A. E., M. B. Richman, H. B. Bluestein, and J. M. Brown, 2008: Statistical modeling of downslope windstorms in Boulder, Colorado. Wea. Forecasting: 23, 1176-1194.

2008 Rogers, J.D., Boutwell, G.P., Schmitz, D.W., Karadeniz, D., Watkins, C.M., Athanasopuolos-Zekkos, A.G., and Cobos-Roa, D. 2008, Geologic Conditions Underlying the 2005 17^th Street Canal Levee Failure in New Orleans. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering. 134: 583-601.

2007 Cooke, W. H., Grala, K., Evans, D. L. and Collins, C., 2007. Assessment of pre- and post-Katrina fuel conditions as a component of fire potential modeling for southern Mississippi. Journal

of Forestry, 105(8): 389-397. [Abstract]

2006 Cooke, W. H., Grala, K. and Wallis, R. C., 2006. Avian GIS models signal human risk for West Nile virus in Mississippi. International Journal of Health Geographics, 5(36). [Full Text]

2006 Rodgers, J. C. III, Gamble, D. G., McCay, D. H., and Phipps, S. Tropical cyclone signals within tree ring chronologies from Weeks Bay National Estuary and Research Reserve, Alabama. Journal of Coastal Research (In Press).

2006 Sherman-Morris, Kathleen (2005, copyright 2006). Tornadoes, Television and Trust—A Closer Look at the Influence of the Local Weathercaster during Severe Weather. Environmental Hazards. 6(4) 201-210.

2005 Dixon, P. G., D. M. Brommer, B. C. Hedquist, A. J. Kalkstein, G. B. Goodrich, J. C. Walter, C. C. Dickerson, IV, S. J. Penny, and R. S. Cerveny, 2005: Heat Mortality Versus Cold Mortality: A study of conflicting databases. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 86, 937–944. [Abstract] [PDF]

2005 Sherman-Morris, Kathleen (2005) Enhancing threat: Using cartographic principles to explain differences in hurricane threat perception. The Florida Geographer. vol. 36, pp. 61-83

2000 Gamble, D. W., M. E. Brown, D. Parnell, D. Brommer, and P. G. Dixon, 2000: Lessons learned from Hurricane Floyd damage on San Salvador. Bahamas Journal of Science, 8, 25–31.