Five years ago, New Orleans was ground zero in one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history. Three years later – almost to the day – the city survived another major hurricane with barely a scratch. What happened to make the outcomes of Hurricane Gustav so much different from Katrina? It was the culminations […]
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SCIPP researchers have developed a new database for reviewing peak storm surge information from past tropical cyclone events. Hal Needham, recent SCIPP graduate at Louisiana State University, developed the comprehensive database of historical tropical cyclone events that have occurred in the Gulf of Mexico. It provides information on all recorded storm surge heights available since
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