Landslide Susceptibility Mapping Using Certainty Factor, Index of Entropy and Logistic Regression Models in GIS and Their Comparison at Mugling–Narayanghat Road Section in Nepal Himalaya
Landslide susceptibility maps are vital for disaster management and for planning development activities in the mountainous country like Nepal. In the present study, landslide susce...
El Nino and health risk from landscape fire emission in southeast Asia
Emissions from landscape fires affect both climate and air quality1. Here, we combine satellite-derived fire estimates and atmospheric modelling to quantify health effects from fir...
Identifying Drivers, Barriers and Opportunities for Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation in Indonesia: An Analysis Based on the Earth System Governance Framework
Climate change is expected to increase the frequency, severity and intensity of disasters. Indonesia is known to be one of the countries most vulnerable to natural hazards. It is l...
Increasing drought under global warming in observations and models
Historical records of precipitation, streamflow and drought indices all show increased aridity since 1950 over many land areas1, 2. Analyses of model-simulated soil moisture3, 4, d...
Global diversity of drought tolerance and grassland climate-change resilience
Drought reduces plant productivity, induces widespread plant mortality and limits the geographic distribution of plant species1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. As climates warm and precipitatio...
Landslide Susceptibility Mapping at Hoa Binh Province (Vietnam) Using an Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System and GIS
The objective of this study is to investigate a potential application of the Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) and the Geographic Information System (GIS) as a relative...
Reduction in carbon uptake during turn of the century drought in western North America
Fossil fuel emissions aside, temperate North America is a net sink of carbon dioxide at present1, 2, 3. Year-to-year variations in this carbon sink are linked to variations in hydr...
Estimation of flood volume in Chao Phraya River basin, Thailand, from MODIS images couppled with flood inundation level
River inundation satellite images are restricted to make real-time flood inundation maps in many cases. However, such images have significant potential to predict the time, place a...
Soft computing–based workable flood forecasting model for Ayeyarwady River Basin of Myanmar
It is a challenging task for working hydrologists of Myanmar to get information from all gauge and discharge sites during a flood to model the forecast properly. In such a case, th...
Track-pattern-based model for seasonal prediction of tropical cyclone activity in the western North Pacific
Skillful predictions of the seasonal tropical cyclone (TC) activity are important in mitigating the potential destruction from the TC approach/landfall in many coastal regions. In ...
Integrating remote sensing data with flood inundation models: how far have we got?
In an article in Hydrological Processes in 2004(bates, 2004), I argued that the use of remote sensing data had allowed a significant breakthrough to be made in flood dinundation mo...
Traditional Javanese Wooden Houses (Joglo) Damaged By May 2006 Yogyakarta Earthquake, Indonesia
A post-earthquake survey was performed on Joglo Javanese wooden houses, seriously affected by the May 27, 2006, Yogyakarta earthquake in Java, Indonesia. Investigations on 20 damag...
Ocean heat content for tropical cyclone intensity forecasting and its impact on storm surge
Accurate tropical cyclone track and intensity forecasts are vital to storm surge prediction and risk management. However, current cyclone intensity forecast skill is deficient, esp...
Future Changes in Tropical Cyclone Activity Projected by the New High-Resolution MRI-AGCM
New versions of the high-resolution 20- and 60-km-mesh Meteorological Research Institute (MRI) atmospheric general circulation models (MRI-AGCM version 3.2) have been developed and...