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The essential source for environmental insights.
About us
AEM (https://aem.eco) is combining global technology leaders to empower communities and organizations to survive and thrive in the face of escalating environment risks. By deploying intelligent sensing networks, operating a secure and scalable data management infrastructure, and delivering high-value analytics through a suite of end-user applications, AEM serves as the essential source for environmental insights. These technologies enable positive outcomes, helping reduce environmental impact and creating a safer world. For more information, visit https://aem.eco.
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https://aem.eco
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- 201-500 employees
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- Germantown, Maryland
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- 2018
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Climate and weather-related hazards are on the rise for farms, businesses, and communities. The need to build resilience against these risks has never been greater. In this episode of Talking With the Experts, we talk with guests Paige Wyler of Ambrook and Christopher Wagoner, MPA of TFG about unlocking funding for #climateresilience projects. Check out the preview below, then click through for the full episode on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/g6XxySqy
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Although #HurricaneMilton caused somewhere in the neighborhood of $160-$180 billion in economic losses, some experts are saying it could have been much worse. Several factors combined to help mitigate the damage Hurricane Milton was poised to inflict. Our latest blog post explores these mitigating factors to understand how much was due to luck and how much was due to controllable factors that could be replicated to mitigate future risk.
Hurricane Milton's Impact: How We Avoided the Worst-Case Scenario
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Now that #HurricaneMilton has passed, we begin the process of taking stock of the damage. There have been numerous reports about how severe the storm was. But all those fragmented reports can be confusing, making it difficult to appreciate the storm's true magnitude. To make it easier to comprehend the severity of Hurricane Milton, we've leveraged our proprietary decision support applications (especially AEM Elements™ 360) to provide one integrated view of the storm that simultaneously captures its various dimensions. NOTE: As you watch the video, you may see some numbers that differ from the "official" reports of NOAA and the National Weather Service. This speaks to the hyperlocal nature of weather. We have captured readings from key locations within the storm. However, a storm like Milton spans many miles across, and weather throughout the storm is not uniform. The conditions experienced at one location will naturally vary from those at others.
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As #HurricaneMilton bears down on Sarasota and Bradenton, Florida, AEM meteorologist Mark Paquette explains what Florida residents can expect at landfall and beyond.
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Even as we brace for the coming impact from #HurricaneMilton, we cannot afford to forget about #HurricaneHelene. Yes, there is an ongoing recovery effort that will take considerable time. But, it's more than that. Helene also exposed some important lessons that we need to learn to improve our resilience against disasters.
6 Lessons We Need To Learn From Hurricane Helene
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UPDATE: As #HurricaneMilton makes its way past the Yucatán Peninsula, it is tracking toward the Tampa Bay area of Florida. This image from AEM Elements™ 360 shows the likely trajectory, current tidal levels, and areas where storm surge is expected. The National Hurricane Center warns that storm surge could reach 15 feet and that Milton could be one of the most destructive hurricanes to ever hit southwest Florida.
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Jacquelyn Ringhausen, a post-doctoral lightning researcher at AEM, offers an important insight into the #lightning activity we’ve been seeing in #HurricaneMilton.
Hurricane Milton has been displaying an incredible amount of eyewall lightning, with near constant activity occurring since 800 UTC this morning. The animation I created shows ENTLN lightning data overplotted on GOES IR satellite imagery. Blue circles are intracloud lightning while red x's signify cloud-to-ground lightning is occurring. Lightning in hurricane eyewalls is typically rare, and only occurs during periods of strong convection. In order to get lightning in hurricanes, strong enough upward motion is needed to loft hydrometeors above the freezing level. When these ice crystals and graupel collide in the presence of supercooled liquid water, they exchange charge and eventually enough charge builds up to initiate lightning. ⚡ Typically, strong convection in the eyewall (and hence lightning) is linked to periods of change in a hurricane, which can signify either a period of weakening, or as in Milton's case a period of intensification. Relating lightning characteristics (the size, type, direction of propagation, energy, etc.) to hurricane development is an active area of research and we are still uncovering the processes involved in hurricane electrification. 🌀
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An important update on #HurricaneMilton from AEM meteorologist James Aman...
5:30 p.m. EDT Mon Oct 7, 2024 - - Intense lightning has continued all afternoon in the eyewall of Hurricane Milton. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) indicates that intensification has continued this afternoon, with top sustained winds now 180 mph (well into Category 5 on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale). Image below is 5-minute lightning data from AEM Earth Networks Sferic Maps, showing a small eye, with a diameter of about 9 or 10 miles. This is similar to what a reconnaissance plane observed earlier this afternoon.
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UPDATE: Milton has now been upgraded to a Category 5 hurricane: https://lnkd.in/g55XjBPk As #HurricaneMilton makes its way toward the southwest coast of Florida, it has intensified into a major Category 4 storm with 150+ mph winds. There was significant lightning around the eyewall during the period leading up to the intensification. This is expected to be an extremely dangerous storm with current predictions for a #stormsurge of 6-7 feet. There is a chance that #Milton could weaken again before making landfall, but in that scenario, the storm would likely become larger and affect even more people.
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