Enhancing Resilience of Island Communities (ERIC)

Peer reviewed articles

1. Esther Boyle, Alireza Inanlouganji, Thomaz Carvalhaes, Petar Jevtić, Giulia Pedrielli, T. Agami Reddy. (2022). Social vulnerability and power loss mitigation: A case study of Puerto Rico. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103357.

2. Thomaz Carvalhaes, Vivaldi Rinaldi, Zhen Goh, Shams Azad, Juanita Uribe, Masoud Ghandehari. (2022). Integrating Spatial and Ethnographic Methods for Resilience Research: A Thick Mapping Approach for Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2022.2071200.

3. Juan P. Montoya-Rincon, Shams Azad, Rabindra Pokhrel, Masoud Ghandehari, Michael P. Jensen, Jorge E. Gonzalez. (2022). On the Use of Satellite Nightlights for Power Outages Prediction. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9706181

4. Mejia Manrique, S.A.; Harmsen, E.W.; Khanbilvardi, R.M.; González, J.E. Flood Impacts on Critical Infrastructure in a Coastal Floodplain in Western Puerto Rico during Hurricane María. Hydrology 2021, 8, 104. https://doi.org/10.3390/hydrology8030104

5. Rabindra Pokhrel, Salvador del Cos, Juan Pablo Montoya Rincon, Equisha Glenn, Jorge E. González. (2021). Observation and modeling of Hurricane Maria for damage assessment, Weather and Climate Extremes, 33, 2021, 100331, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wace.2021.100331

6. Pokhrel, R., and González-Cruz, J. E. (2021). Mitigation options to reduce peak air temperature and air-conditioning demand in the context of a warming climate for a tropical coastal city. ASME. J. Eng. Sustain. Bldgs. Cities. 2: 021004. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4051160

7. Harmsen, E.W.; Mecikalski, J.R.; Reventos, V.J.; Álvarez Pérez, E.; Uwakweh, S.S.; Adorno García, C. Water and Energy Balance Model GOES-PRWEB: Development and Validation. Hydrology 2021, 8, 113. https://doi.org/10.3390/hydrology8030113.

8. Carvalhaes, T.M., Chester, M.V. Reddy, T.A. & Allenby, B.R., 2020. An Overview & Synthesis of Disaster Resilience Indices from a Complexity Perspective, Int. J. of Disaster Risk Reduction, Elsevier, 57 (2021) 102165, pp.13 pages, March 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102165

9. Shams Azad, Masoud Ghandehari (2021). A Study on the Association of Socioeconomic and Physical Cofactors Contributing to Power Restoration After Hurricane Maria. Published in IEEE Access, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3093547.

Presentations

• Juan Montoya, City College of New York, New York, NY; and J. E. Gonzalez and M. P. Jensen. (2023). A Machine Learning Approach for Transmission Line Hardening.

• Juan Montoya, City College of New York, New York, NY; and S. A. Mejia Manrique, S. Uddin al Azad, M. Ghandehari, E. Harmsen, R. Khanbilvardi, and J. E. Gonzalez. (2023). Socio-Technical Approach for the Assessment of the Critical Infrastructure System-Level Resiliency in Extreme Weather Events.

• Juan Montoya, City College of New York, New York, NY; and H. Gamarro and J. E. Gonzalez. (2023). Characterization of Hurricane Boundary Layer Winds on Power Towers in Complex Terrain Using a High-Resolution LES Weather Simulation.

• Said A Mejia Manrique, City College of New York, New York, NY; and J. Montoya, E. Harmsen, R. Khanbilvardi, and J. Gonzalez (2023). Correcting Precipitation from Weather Research and Forecasting model using Artificial Intelligence algorithms over Puerto Rico.

• Said A Mejia Manrique, City College of New York, New York, NY; and E. Harmsen, R. Khanbilvardi, and J. Gonzalez. (2023). Coupling Corrected Precipitation from Weather Research and Forecasting model with Hydrologic model for Añasco Watershed to predict streamflow.

• Carvalhaes T., Inanlouganji A., Boyle, E., Jevtic, P., Pedrielli, G. and Reddy, A. (2020). “A Simulation Framework for Service Loss of Power Networks under Extreme Weather Events: A Case of Puerto Rico”. Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Singapore August (2020).

• Juan Montoya-Rincon, Uddin al Azad, M. Ghandehari, M. P. Jensen, and J. Gonzalez-Cruz. A Machine Learning Framework for Power Outages Prediction Using Weather and Night-Light Satellite Data. 12th Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy - Grid Operations and Energy Weather and Wind Forecasting. 101st Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society. January 10-15, 2021. 101st American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting (confex.com).

• Rabindra Pokhrel, P. Ramamurthy, D. Comarazamy, and J. Gonzalez- (2021). Overall Assessment of the Impacts of a Future Warmer Climate and Mitigation Options in the Local Environment for the Tropical Coastal City of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Conference on Coastal Hazard Assessment and Prediction. Part II; Urban Modeling and Applications to Coastal Urban Environment. 101st Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society. January 10-15, 2021. 101st American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting (confex.com)

• Salvador del Cos Garza, R. Pokhrel, K. Hibbert, E. Harmsen, and J. Gonzalez-Cruz (2021). The effect of a Warming Climate on return periods of extreme wind and precipitation in the Caribbean using bias corrected GCM Models. 34th Conference on Climate Variability and Change - 34CVC Friday Poster Session. 101st Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society. January 10-15, 2021. 101st American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting (confex.com)

• Jorge E. Gonzalez and Juan Pablo Montoya-Rincon. Power Outages Prediction Using Weather and Night-Light Satellite Data. ASME Energy Sustainability Conference. ES2021-64971.

• Jorge Gonzalez and Rabindra Pokhrel. On the Role of Energy Mitigation Measures to Reduce Energy Demands in the Context of Changing Climate for a Tropical Coastal City. ASME Energy Sustainability Conference. ES2021-62618.

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