Tropical cyclone track forecasting techniques?A review
Delivering accurate cyclone forecasts in time is of key importance when it comes to saving human lives and reducing economic loss. Difficulties arise because the geographical and c...
Rain-Triggered Landslide Hazards and Mitigation Measures in Thailand: From Research to Practice
Recently, the frequency of rain-triggered landslides in Thailand has been on the increase and has gained momentum, coincident with the effects of climate change. In this regards, t...
Culture and disaster risk reduction: lessons and opportunities
The value of physical science in mitigating the effects of environmental hazards is well acknowledged. Less acknowledged are the cultural influences affecting adoption of disaster ...
Fire, drought and El Niño relationships on Borneo (Southeast Asia) in the pre-MODIS era (1980–2000)
Borneo (Indonesia) is Earth's third largest island, and the location of both extensive areas of rainforest and tropical peatlands. It is the site of both regular (seasonal) biomass...
Simultaneously mitigating near-term climate change and improving human health and food security
Tropospheric ozone and black carbon (BC) contribute to both degraded air quality and global warming. We considered ~400 emission control measures to reduce these pollutants by usin...
Water resources management strategy for adaptation to droughts in China
Water Scarcity and drought are recurrent phenomena in China. In the context of environmental change, an increasing tendency in drought frequency and severity is observed in China i...
Dynamically Derived Tropical Cyclone Intensity Changes over the Western North Pacific
The study of the impact of global warming on tropical cyclone (TC) intensity is subject to uncertainty in historical datasets, especially in the western North Pacific (WNP) basin, ...
Social Capital in Post Disaster Recovery: Towards a Resilient and Compassionate East Asian Community
Standard approaches to disaster mitigation and recovery have, until recently, tended to overlook the role of social resources. This chapter investigates the mechanisms through whi...
Rice yields and yield gaps in Southeast Asia: Past trends and future outlook
Rice production must increase to meet future food requirements amid strong competition for limited resources. Yield gap analysis is a useful method to examine how large the ranges ...
Climate change and variability over Malaysia: Gaps in science and research information
This paper provides an overview of the current available scientific knowledge pertaining to climate change and climate variability over Malaysia. Malaysia is situated in the wester...
Tree-ring based reconstruction of drought variability (1615–2009) in the Kongtong Mountain area, northern China
The Kongtong Mountain area is a marginal area of the Asian summer monsoon and is sensitive to monsoon dynamics. The sensitivity highlights the need to establishing long-term climat...
River Discharge Projection under Climate Change in the Chao Phraya River Basin, Thailand, Using the MRI-GCM3.1S Dataset
The impact of climate change on river ?ow in the Chao Phraya River basin in Thailand is analyzed by feeding future runo¤ projection data into a distributed ?ow routing model. The ...
Characteristics of the 2011 Chao Phraya River flood in Central Thailand
A massive flood, the maximum ever recorded in Thailand, struck the Chao Phraya River in 2011. The total rainfall during the 2011 rainy season was 1,439 mm, which was 143% of the av...
Hydrological impact of regional climate change in the Chao Phraya River Basin, Thailand
The warming of the Earth’s atmosphere system will change temperature and precipitation distributions across the globe. This will affect the hydrological cycle and, therefore, the...