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Disaster response and risk management using PNNL’s Aether framework on AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

The science of event simulation and emergency response is based broadly on physics and earth science for climate simulations. Data sources include Hanford Environmental Information System (HEIS), the National Weather Service , the National Hurricane Center , and others. Screenshot showing the EGRASS storm event simulation interface.

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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Meteorological disasters Named tropical storms and hurricanes make landfall in Haiti on average once every 18 months, but the incidence is irregular, and so is the power of each storm. For example, in the 2008 hurricane season, four named storms arrived. Haiti has long had a shortage of all three.

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