How reliable are projections of future ?ood damage?
Flood damage modelling is an important component in ?ood risk management, and several studies have investigated the possible range of ?ood damage in the coming decades. Generally, ...
Land subsidence of Jakarta (Indonesia) and its relation with urban development
Jakarta is the capital city of Indonesia with a population of about 9.6 million people, inhabiting an area of about 660 square-km. In the last three decades, urban development of J...
Observational analysis of sudden tropical cyclone track changes in the vicinity of the East China Sea
An observational analysis of observed sudden typhoon track changes is conducted with a focus on the underlying mechanism and the possible role of slowly varying low-frequency flows...
Simulations of Severe Tropical Cyclone Nargis over the Bay of Bengal Using RIMES Operational System
The Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System (RIMES), an international, intergovernmental organization based in Thailand is engaged in disaster risk reduction over the...
Global change belowground: impacts of elevated CO2, nitrogen, and summer drought on soil food webs and biodiversity
The world's ecosystems are subjected to various anthropogenic global change agents, such as enrichment of atmospheric CO2 concentrations, nitrogen (N) deposition, and changes in pr...
Application of an Analytical Hierarchical Process Approach for Landslide Susceptibility Mapping in A Luoi District, Thua Thien Hue Province, Vietnam
A Luoi is a Vietnamese–Laotian border district situated in the western part of Thua Thien Hue province, central Vietnam, where landslides occur frequently and seriously affect lo...
Increase in port downtime and damage in Vietnam due to a potential increase in tropical cyclone intensity
It is currently feared that the increase in surface sea temperature resulting from increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere could result in an increase in tropical c...
The impact of the typhoon to peninsular Malaysia on orographic effects
Remote sensing techniques have been used to study the impacts of the tropical cyclone. In order to figure out the relationship of typhoon with orography effect, precipitation produ...
Impacts of central Pacific and eastern Pacific El Niños on tropical cyclone tracks over the western North Pacific
This study examines the different impacts of two types of El Niños, the eastern Pacific El Niño (EP-EN) and the central Pacific El Niño (CP-EN), on tropical cyclone (TC) tracks ...
Risk assessment of flash – muddy flood and inundation of western Tam Dao mountainous region, Vinh Phuc province, Vietnam by using intergrated concept of hydrology and geomorphology
Flash flood, muddy flood and inundation are three phenomena of hydrological hazard. Normally, they are logically appeared in a catchment. In some other cases at mountainous region,...
Ending the drought: New strategies for improving the flow of affordable, effective antivenoms in Asia and Africa
The development of snake antivenoms more than a century ago should have heralded effective treatment of the scourge of snakebite envenoming in impoverished, mostly rural population...
Influence of conditional nonlinear optimal perturbations sensitivity on typhoon track forecasts
This study investigates the influence on typhoon track forecasts by the Mesoscale Model5 and 3D-Var system of assimilating additional simulated dropsonde data in sensitive regions ...
Sensitivity of physical parameterizations on prediction of tropical cyclone Nargis over the Bay of Bengal using WRF model
Comprehensive sensitivity analyses on physical parameterization schemes of Weather Research Forecast (WRF-ARW core) model have been carried out for the prediction of track and inte...
Towards a compendium on national drought policy: Proceedings of an expert meeting
Droughts produce a large number of socio-economic impacts which may arise from the interaction between natural conditions and human factors. There is growing evidence that the fre...