Morphological responses of the Wax Lake Delta, Louisiana, to Hurricanes Rita by Fei Xing, James P.M. Syvitski, Albert J. Kettner, Ehab A. Meselhe, John H. Atkinson, Ashok K. Khadka

“…The numerical model estimated that Hurricane Rita’s storm surge reached 2.5 m, with maximum currents of 2.0 m s–1, and wave heights of 1.4 m on the WLD. …”
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Effect of Varying Wind Intensity, Forward Speed, and Surface Pressure on Storm Surges of Hurricane Rita by Abram Musinguzi, Muhammad K. Akbar

“…To understand the individual and combined influence of wind intensity, surface pressure and forward speed, a numerical experiment is conducted using Advanced CIRCulation + Simulating Waves Nearshore (ADCIRC + SWAN) by performing hindcasts of Hurricane Rita storm surges. The wind field generated by Ocean Weather Inc. …”
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Effect of Bottom Friction, Wind Drag Coefficient, and Meteorological Forcing in Hindcast of Hurricane Rita Storm Surge Using SWAN + ADCIRC Model by Muhammad K. Akbar, Simbarashe Kanjanda, Abram Musinguzi

“…An evaluation of the effect of bottom friction, wind drag coefficient, and meteorological forcing is conducted using a tightly coupled wave and circulation model, SWAN + ADCIRC (i.e., Simulating WAves Nearshore + ADvanced CIRCulation), to hindcast the storm surge of Hurricane Rita (2005). Wind drag coefficient formulations of Powell, Zijlema, and Peng & Li are used to calculate wind stresses. …”
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Hurricane Wind Speed Estimation Using WindSat 6 and 10 GHz Brightness Temperatures by Lei Zhang, Xiao-bin Yin, Han-qing Shi, Zhen-zhan Wang

“…Two case studies demonstrate that the mean bias and RMS difference are 0.79 m/s and 1.79 m/s for hurricane Rita-1 and 0.63 m/s and 2.38 m/s for hurricane Rita-2, respectively. …”
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Satellite Assessment of Bio-Optical Properties of Northern Gulf of Mexico Coastal Waters Following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita by Merritt Tuel, Xiaogang Chen, Wei-Jun Cai, Steven E. Lohrenz

“…Imagery acquired shortly after Hurricane Rita made landfall showed increased water column turbidity extending over a large area of the shelf off Louisiana and Texas, consistent with intense resuspension and sediment disturbance. …”
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Supply chain disruptions : managing risks vs. managing crises by Lee, Garrett J. (Garrett James), Chang Zen-Lee M

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Organized kinetic energy backscatter in the hurricane boundary layer from radar measurements by Sroka, Sydney Glass, Guimond, S.R.

“…The analysis presented here of very high-resolution, three-dimensional wind observations from Hurricane Rita (2005) at peak intensity reveals large regions of organized backscatter in the boundary layer associated with coherent, turbulent eddies. …”
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Impact of Microphysical Parameterizations on Simulated Hurricanes—Using Multi-Parameter Satellite Data to Determine the Particle Size Distributions that Produce Most Realistic Stor... by Svetla Hristova-Veleva, Ziad Haddad, Alexandra Chau, Bryan W. Stiles, F. Joseph Turk, P. Peggy Li, Brian Knosp, Quoc Vu, Tsae-Pyng Shen, Bjorn Lambrigtsen, Eun-Kyoung Seo, Hui Su

“…Here we simulated 2005′s category-5 Hurricane Rita using the cloud-permitting community Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF) with two different microphysical schemes and with seven different modifications of the parametrized hydrometeor properties within one of the two schemes. …”
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