Growing threat of intense tropical cyclones to East Asia over the period 1977–2010
The threat of intense tropical cyclones (TCs) to East Asia has increased in recent decades. Integrated analyses of five available TC data sets for the period 1977–2010 revealed t...
Applicability Of A Flood Forecasting Method Utilizing Global Satellite Information To An Insufficiently-Gauged River Basin: A Case Of A River Basin In The Philippines
A basin-wide flood monitoring and warning systems is being implemented sequentially in river basins of the Philippines, which suffer from severe floods. The Cagayan River basin wit...
Applicability Of A Flood Forecasting Method Utilizing Global Satellite Information To An Insufficiently-Gauged River Basin: A Case Of A River Basin In The Philippines
A basin-wide flood monitoring and warning systems is being implemented sequentially in river basins of the Philippines, which suffer from severe floods. The Cagayan River basin wit...
Disseminating near real-time hazards information and flood maps in the Philippines through Web-GIS
The Philippines being a locus of tropical cyclones, tsunamis, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, is a hotbed of disasters. These natural hazards inflict loss of lives and costly d...
An Objective Satellite-Based Tropical Cyclone Size Climatology
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 from 6-hourly global numerica...
Disasters, Poverty, and Coping Strategies: The Framework and Empirical Evidence from Micro/Household Data-Philippine Case
This study analyzed the interactions between natural disasters and household poverty and discussed the coping strategies used by households in response to natural disasters in the ...
Agricultural intensification for food security in rainfed rice-based systems of southern Lao PDR
Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) project CSE/2009/004 (Developing improved farming and marketing systems in rainfed regions of southern Lao PDR) in...
Flow Assessment of Brunei River due to the Impact of Climate Change
Though Brunei Darussalam is a small country, it has the highest percentage of energy usage per capita as well as the largest carbon footprints of 22.9 metric tons per capita in the...
Evaluation of Seismic Events Occurred after Filling and Drawdown of the Reservoir at Song Tranh 2 HPP in Vietnam
Reservoir-induced earthquakes are a challenging issue for hydropower, and have occurred at many sites around the world. However, each event is unique in itself and depends on the g...
Volcanic tsunami: a review of source mechanisms, past events and hazards in Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea)
Southeast Asia has had both volcanic tsunamis and possesses some of the most densely populated, economically important and rapidly developing coastlines in the world. This contribu...
Morphological Changes to the Acehnese Coastline in Sumatra, Indonesia, since the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami
The western Acehnese coastline in northern Sumatra, Indonesia, receded on average 110 m due to subsidence and tsunami inundation in the course of the December 26, 2004 SumatraAndam...
An Experimental Study on Wave Forces of Tsunami on Simplified Onshore Buildings at Penang Island, Malaysia
In this study, wave forces of tsunami on simplified onshore buildings at Penang Island were investigated. Single-storey and double-storey buildings were downscaled at a ratio of 1:...
A Boundary Fitted Nested Grid Model for Tsunami Computation along Penang Island in Peninsular Malaysia
This paper focuses on the development of a 2-D boundary fitted and nested grid (BFNG) model to compute the tsunami propagation of Indonesian tsunami 2004 along the coastal region o...
The 2004 Thailand tsunami and the April 2012 tsunami warning-were lessons learned?
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