Hurricane Information

USGS Information and Links

• Hurricane Hazards—A National Threat (fact sheet)
• USGS Natural Hazards - Hurricanes

Hurricane Forecast Information

• National Hurricane Center—(NWS)
• Current Tropical Forecast Information
• GOES-8 Atlantic Infrared Imagery
• GOES-8 Atlantic Visible Imagery

• Earth Scan Laboratory—(LSU)
• GOES-8 Atlantic Infrared Imagery
• GOES-8 Atlantic Visible Imagery
• GOES-8 Atlantic Color Infrared Imagery

• Southern Region Climate Center—(NOAA)
• Tropical Weather Outlook

USGS Hurricane-related Publications for Louisiana

General
• Land Area Change and Overview of Major Hurricane Impacts in Coastal Louisiana, 2004-08

Hurricane Ike (2008)
• Monitoring Inland Storm Surge and Flooding from Hurricane Ike in Texas and Louisiana, September 2008
• Global Positioning System Surveys of Storm-Surge Sensors Deployed During Hurricane Ike, Seadrift, Texas, to Lake Charles, Louisiana, 2008
• Hurricane Ike: Observations and Analysis of Coastal Change

Hurricane Gustav (2008)
• Hurricane Gustav: Observations and Analysis of Coastal Change
• Monitoring Inland Storm Surge and Flooding From Hurricane Gustav in Louisiana, September 2008

Hurricanes Katrina and Rita (2005)
• Science and the Storms: the USGS Response to the Hurricanes of 2005
Storm Surge and Coastal Effects
• Terrestrial Lidar Datasets of New Orleans, Louisiana, Levee Failures from Hurricane Katrina, August 29, 2005
• Satellite Images and Aerial Photographs of the Effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on Coastal Louisiana
• Land Area Changes in Coastal Louisiana After the 2005 Hurricanes: A Series of Three Maps
• Hurricane Rita Surge Data, Southwestern Louisiana and Southeastern Texas, September to November 2005
• Monitoring Inland Storm Surge and Flooding from Hurricane Rita
• Mapping and Visualization of Storm-Surge Dynamics for Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita
Water Quality
• Chemical Constituents in Sediment in Lake Pontchartrain and in Street Mud and Canal Sediment in New Orleans, Louisiana, Following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, 2005
• Bacteriological Water Quality in the Lake Pontchartrain Basin, Louisiana, Following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, September 2005
• USGS environmental characterization of flood sediments left in the New Orleans area after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, 2005—Progress Report
• Environmental Chemical Data for Perishable Sediments and Soils collected in New Orleans, Louisiana, and along the Louisiana Delta following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, 2005