Assessing Property Exposure to Cyclonic Winds under Climate Change by Evelyn G. Shu, Mariah Pope, Bradley Wilson, Mark Bauer, Mike Amodeo, Neil Freeman, Jeremy R. Porter

“…The wind model presented here combines open data and science by utilizing high-resolution topography, computer-modeled hurricane tracks, and property data to create hyper-local tropical cyclone wind exposure information for the Contiguous United States (CONUS) from current time to 2053 under RCP 4.5. …”
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Putting Access to Veterinary Care on the Map: A Veterinary Care Accessibility Index by Sue M. Neal, Sue M. Neal, Mike J. Greenberg

“…This research aims to create an index evaluating accessibility of veterinary care across the contiguous United States and thus fill an important gap in the literature. …”
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The potential of carbon markets to accelerate green infrastructure based water quality trading by Braden J. Limb, Jason C. Quinn, Alex Johnson, Robert B. Sowby, Evan Thomas

“…Here we combine data on impaired waters, treatment technologies, and life cycle greenhouse gas emissions in the Contiguous United States, and compare traditional treatment technologies to alternative green infrastructure. …”
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The Healthy Eater’s Idea and Related Behavior of a Healthy Diet—A Case Study with Kombucha Drinkers by Juyoung Kim, Uttam Bhattarai, Koushik Adhikari

“…Kombucha drinkers (<i>n</i> = 296) in the contiguous United States (U.S.) were targeted to investigate differences in the various consumer segments regarding the healthy eater’s behavior, namely—(1) healthy diet stage-of-change attitudes, (2) healthy eating criteria, and (3) label information usage. …”
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Investigating Various Products of IMERG for Precipitation Retrieval over Surfaces with and without Snow and Ice Cover by Alireza Arabzadeh, Ali Behrangi

“…Precipitation rate from various products of the integrated multisatellite retrievals for GPM (IMERG) and passive microwave (PMW) sensors are assessed with respect to near-surface wet-bulb temperature (T_w), precipitation intensity, and surface type (i.e., with and without snow and ice on the surface) over the contiguous United States (CONUS) and using ground radar product as reference precipitation. …”
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A database of hourly wind speed and modeled generation for US wind plants based on three meteorological models by Dev Millstein, Seongeun Jeong, Amos Ancell, Ryan Wiser

“…PLUSWIND provides wind speeds and estimated generation on an hourly basis at almost all wind plants across the contiguous United States from 2018–2021. The repository contains wind speeds and generation based on three different meteorological models: ERA5, MERRA2, and HRRR. …”
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Activities Contributing to Total Energy Expenditure in the United States: Results from the NHAPS Study by Block Gladys, Dong Linda, Mandel Shelly

“…In 1992–1994 the NHAPS sampled 4,185 females and 3,330 males, aged 18 years and over, weighted to be representative of the 48 contiguous United States. A detailed report of each activity performed in the previous 24 hours was obtained. …”
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Who cares about monarch butterflies? Comparing US State Wildlife Action Plans 2015–2025 by Katie M. Harris, Damon M. Hall, Deborah L. Finke

“…For example, in the contiguous United States, 15 states that occupy critical monarch migration corridors omit listing monarchs as a species of conservation need; 10 of these states have critical breeding habitat. …”
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Food deserts exposure, density of fast-food restaurants, and park access: Exploring the association of food and recreation environments with obesity and diabetes using global and l... by Jae In Oh, KangJae Jerry Lee, Aaron Hipp

“…This study applied spatial regression and geographically weighted regression to the 3,108 counties in the contiguous United States. Global regression show food deserts exposure and density of fast-food restaurants have non-significant association with obesity and diabetes while park access has a significant inverse association with both diseases. …”
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Honey bee colony loss linked to parasites, pesticides and extreme weather across the United States by Luca Insolia, Roberto Molinari, Stephanie R. Rogers, Geoffrey R. Williams, Francesca Chiaromonte, Martina Calovi

“…Specifically, we analyzed quarterly data covering the contiguous United States for the years 2015-2021, and combined open data on honey bee colony status and stressors, weather data, and land use. …”
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The time- and distance-decay effects of hurricane relevancy on social media: an empirical study of three hurricanes in the United States by Mackenzie Kottwitz, Guiming Zhang, Jin Xu

“…Tweets were collected for three hurricanes within the contiguous United States (Hurricane Harvey in 2017, Florence in 2018 and Laura in 2020) and examined over a 12-week period following hurricane landfalls. …”
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Wildfire Impacts on Groundwater Aquifers: A Case Study of the 1996 Honey Boy Fire in Beaver County, Utah, USA by Benjamin T. Johnk, David C. Mays

“…Here, we present a systematic study across the contiguous United States to test the hypothesis that wildfires reduce infiltration, indicated by temporary reductions in groundwater levels. …”
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Mapping methane reduction potential of tidal wetland restoration in the United States by James R. Holmquist, Meagan Eagle, Rebecca Lee Molinari, Sydney K. Nick, Liana C. Stachowicz, Kevin D. Kroeger

“…We provide a new assessment of coastal methane reduction opportunities for the contiguous United States by combining multiple publicly available map layers, reassessing greenhouse gas emissions datasets, and applying scenarios informed by geospatial information system and by surveys of coastal managers. …”
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Does global warming increase establishment rates of invasive alien species? A centurial time series analysis. by Dingcheng Huang, Robert A Haack, Runzhi Zhang

“…Moreover, similar relationships were detected using additional data from the United Kingdom and the contiguous United States. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: These findings suggest that the perceived increase in establishments of invasive alien insects can be explained only in part by an increase in introduction rate or propagule pressure. …”
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Integrating climate change induced flood risk into future population projections by Evelyn G. Shu, Jeremy R. Porter, Mathew E. Hauer, Sebastian Sandoval Olascoaga, Jesse Gourevitch, Bradley Wilson, Mariah Pope, David Melecio-Vazquez, Edward Kearns

“…Using historic flood data between 2000-2023 across the Contiguous United States (CONUS), we identify the relationships between flood exposure and population change. …”
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Near-field investigations of the Landers earthquake sequence, April to July 1992 by Hauksson, Egill, Hudnut, Kenneth, Eberhart-Phillips, Donna, Heaton, Thomas, Sieh, Kerry, Hough, Susan, Hutton, Kate, Kanamori, Hiroo, Lilje, Anne, Lindvall, Scott, Stock, Joann, Thio, Hong Kie, Treiman, Jerome, Zachariasen, Judith, McGill, Sally F., Mori, James., Spotila, James A., Jones, Lucile M., Rubin, Charles M., Wernicke, Brian P.

“…The Landers earthquake, which had a moment magnitude (Mw) of 7.3, was the largest earthquake to strike the contiguous United States in 40 years. This earthquake resulted from the rupture of five major and many minor right-lateral faults near the southern end of the eastern California shear zone, just north of the San Andreas fault. …”
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Regionalization of the Modified Bartlett-Lewis Rectangular Pulse Stochastic Rainfall Model by Dongkyun Kim, Francisco Olivera, Huidae Cho, Scott A. Socolofsky

“…Parameters of the Modified Bartlett-Lewis Rectangular Pulse (MBLRP) stochastic rainfall simulation model were regionalized across the contiguous United States. Three thousand four hundred forty-four National Climate Data Center (NCDC) rain gauges were used to obtain spatial and seasonal patterns of the model parameters. …”
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Chronically underestimated: a reassessment of US heat waves using the extended heat index by David M Romps, Yi-Chuan Lu

“…Here, three-hourly temperature and humidity are used to evaluate the extended heat index over the contiguous United States during the years 1984–2020. It is found that the 99.9th percentile of the daily maximum heat index is highest over the Midwest. …”
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Connections between summer air pollution and stagnation by Gaige Hunter Kerr, Darryn W Waugh

“…We find that while the direction of the relationship between the ASI and summertime PM _2.5 and O _3 ranges from near-zero to positive throughout regions comprising the contiguous United States (US), the strength of the relationship is very weak (e.g. in the Northeast the correlation coefficient between the ASI and PM _2.5 is 0.09). …”
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Predicting flood damage using the flood peak ratio and Giovanni Flooded Fraction by Hamed Ghaedi, Allison C. Reilly, Hiba Baroud, Daniel V. Perrucci, Celso M. Ferreira

“…The approach uses statistical learning methods to generate predictive models at two spatial levels: nationwide and statewide for the entire contiguous United States. A variable importance analysis demonstrates the significance of FPR and GFF data in predicting flood damage. …”
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