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Assessment of flood hazards and vulnerability in Cambodian floodplain

Shrestha, B. B.Okazumi, T.Tanaka, S.Sugiura, A.Kwak, Y.
Lower Mekong Basin(LMB) is frequently affected by flood, particularly, within the low-lying floodplains of cambodia. Populations living in the Mekong ...

Development of Flood Vulnerability Indices for Lower Mekong Basin in Cambodain Floodplain

Shrestha, B. B.Okazumi, T.Tanaka, S.Sugiura, A.Kwak, Y.Hibino, S.
Floods frequently occur in the world, which cause serious damage of properties and loss of lives. It is thus important to identify flood vulnerability...

The 2010 Seismovolcanic Crisis at Taal Volcano (Philippines)

Zlotnicki, J.Sasai, Y.Johnston, M. J. S.Fauquet, F.Villacorte, E.Cordon, J. M.
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Characteristic and behavior of rainfall induced landslides in Java Island, Indonesia: an overview

Christanto, N.Hadmoko, D. S.Westen, C. J.Lavigne, F.Sartohadi, J.Setiawan, M. A.
Landslides are important natural hazards occurring on mountainous area situated in the wet tropical climate like in Java, Indonesia. As a central of e...
A large proportion of the water used in monsoon Asia is used for rice paddies, and the mechanism of use varies from area to area. Hydrological models,...
Landslides are one of the most dangerous hazards in Vietnam. Most landslides occur at excavated slopes, and natural slope failures are rare in the cou...
This study explores sub-monthly variation for the circulation and convection in the western North Pacific during July and August. The sub-monthly vari...
The Menoreh Mountains in Yogyakarta are severely affected by landslides. Due to the high population densities, mass movements are generally damaging a...
The purpose of the present paper is to manifest the results of the neuro-fuzzy model using remote sensing data and GIS for landslide susceptibility an...
A new tropical cyclone vortex initialization method based on the ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) is proposed in this study. Three observed parameters th...

An Objective Satellite-Based Tropical Cyclone Size Climatology

Knaff, John A.Scott P. LongmoreDebra A. Molenar
Storm-centered infrared (IR) imagery of tropical cyclones (TCs) is related to the 850-hPa mean tangential wind at a radius of 500 km (V500) calculated...
Historically underdeveloped and divided, Burma today is politically isolated, increasingly militarised, economically mismanaged by its own authorities...
This paper presents landslide hazard analysis at Cameron area, Malaysia, using a geographic information system (GIS) and remote sensing data. Landslid...
Karanganyar and the surrounding area are situated in a dynamic volcanic arc region, where landslide frequently occurs during the rainy season. The rai...
Very severe cyclonic storm Nargis devastated Burma (Myanmar) in May 2008, caused tremendous damage and numerous fatalities, and became one of the 10 d...
The aim of this study is to evaluate the landslide hazards at Selangor area, Malaysia, using Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing. L...
The Peoples’ Democratic Republic of Lao is a landlocked country bordered by Vietnam to the east, Thailand to the south and west and China to the nor...
Floods and associated landslides account for the largest number of natural disasters and affect more people than any other type of natural disaster. W...
It has been more than 10 years since Malaysia ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and developments since then ...