Impacts of Disasters and Disasters Risk Management in Malaysia: The Case of Floods
Malaysia lies in a geographically stable region, relatively free from natural disasters, but is affected by flooding, landslides, haze and other man-made disasters. Annually, flood...
FLOOD EViDENS: A WEB-BASED APPLICATION FOR NEAR-REAL TIME FLOOD EVENT VISUALIZATION AND DAMAGE ESTIMATIONS
The Web-based Near-real Time Flood Event Visualization and Damage Estimations (Flood EViDEns) is an online geo-visualization application developed through the Phil-LiDAR 1 project...
Identi?cation of storm surge vulnerable areas in the Philippines through the simulation of Typhoon Haiyan-induced storm surge levels over historical storm tracks
Super Typhoon Haiyan entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) 7 November 2013, causing tremendous damage to infrastructure and loss of lives mainly due to the storm surg...
Storm Surge due to 2013 Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) in Leyte Gulf, the Philippines
The present chapter describes the characteristics of the massive storm surge generated by the 2013 Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan), which made landfall on the coast of the Philippines on ...
Farmers' perceptions of and responses to annual flood events in the Vietnamese Mekong River Delta: adapting to climate change impacts
Regions around the globe with a monsoon climate experience large inter- seasonal variations of river flows (FAO, 2009). One of the world’s largest river basins, the Mekong River,...
Study Case : Study On The 2004 Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake for Making Tsunami Inundation Mapsin Northwest Coasts of Peninsular Malaysia
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Validation of the MMD - JMA MRI-III Wave Model over the South China Sea Using the Hindcast Technique
The wave model is applied at a resolution of 1.0 degree and 0.125 degree and is driven by the 10 meter wind, produced by the ECMWF (ERA-Interim) data over the same area for the pur...
Standard Operating Procedure: Operational Wave Numerical Forecast Model JMA MRI-III-MMD (NAVGEM) 2015
Malaysian Meteorological Department (MMD) has fully operationalised the provision of marine forecasts over the Malaysian waters especially over the South China Sea region. This Sta...
Responding to Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines
The Philippines is a disaster-prone country,1 ranked as the second highest country worldwide at risk of natural disasters. 2 On 8 November 2013, Typhoon Haiyan (local name “Yolan...
COMMUNITY-BASED DISASTER RISK ASSESSMENT GUIDELINES
Natural disasters are becoming more extreme due to the impacts of climate change and because of this, the Vietnamese Party, State and people have identified natural disaster preven...
LAPORAN TAHUNAN Annual Report 2015
Dalam usaha untuk menyokong pertumbuhan sosio-ekonomi negara bermatlamatkan kemakmuran dan kesejahteraan rakyat, Jabatan Meteorologi Malaysia (MetMalaysia) terus komited dalam meni...
PHIVOLCS 2015 Annual Report
It is with pride to present the accomplishments of Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) for the year 2015. PHIVOLCS continued with its effort to build up i...
NATURAL DISASTER ANNUAL REPORT 2015
In 2015, natural disasters happened in Vietnam with lower frequency, but higher magnitude in terms of impact, i.e.:five storms and two tropical depressions in the East Sea (with th...
Annual Report 2015
Sitting on the Pacific Ring of Fire, the Indonesian island of Sumatra is a hot spot for geohazards. A large fault known as the Sumatran Fault, which has generated many large histor...