Hobbs Lecture Award. Dynamics and microphysics of orographic precipitation. We have been taking the UW King Air with radar and lidar over Wyoming mountain ranges since 2006, to study natural ...

They made some life-saving judgment calls, preemptively closing bridges and prepping communities for evacuation, but area ...

There are several scientific theories on why this area saw double digits of rain in a four day stretch, one being the ...

Parts of eastern and southern Spain are now dealing with the aftermath of historic and deadly flooding at the hands of a ...

In Australia’s big cities, we tend to take our water for granted. How does it get to us – and could we ever run out?

Contrary to popular belief, mountain ranges like the Sierra Madre and the Cordillera do not significantly weaken typhoons.

The hurricane is the third-deadliest hurricane of the modern era (behind Maria and Katrina) with a death toll of over 200, ...

In 2001, Drew Guswa joined the faculty at Smith College to help launch the Picker Engineering Program—the first engineering program at an all-women’s college. In 2009, he was named as the founding ...

The challenge of forecasting extreme events across Ecuador is the focus for Angela Iza Wong, from the Ecuador ...

“A couple spots could see up to a foot of rain – not out of the question, especially when you talk about the mountains and the orographic lift across parts of southern Mexico,” Minar said.

Ignacio Urquiza and Ana Paula de Alba, Las Rocas. The four houses use similar modules but have different layouts depending on the orographic characteristics of the mountain. The volumes are freely ...