Uncertainty in climate change projections of discharge for the Mekong River Basin
The Mekong River Basin is a key regional resource in Southeast Asia for sectors that include agriculture, ?sheries and electricity production. Here we explore the potential impacts...
Long-term changes in rainfall and tropical cyclone activity over South and Southeast Asia
Long-term changes in rainfall and associated tropical cyclone (TC) activity in transition seasons between the wet and dry seasons in South and Southeast Asia, namely boreal spring ...
Summer atmospheric bridging between Europe and East Asia: Influences on drought and wetness on the Tibetan Plateau
Based on the ERA-40 reanalysis data, dryness and wetness over the Tibetan Plateau are categorized according to the monthly standardized precipitation index. The atmospheric feature...
Use of GIS-Based Fuzzy Logic Relations and Its Cross Application to Produce Landslide Susceptibility Maps in Three Test Areas in Malaysia
Landslides are one of the most frequent and common natural hazards in Malaysia. Preparation of landslide susceptibility maps is one of the first and most important steps in the lan...
Soil Erosion Assessment and Its Correlation with Landslide Events Using Remote Sensing Data and GIS: A Case Study at Penang Island, Malaysia
In this paper, an attempt has been made to assess, prognosis and observe dynamism of soil erosion by universal soil loss equation (USLE) method at Penang Island, Malaysia. Multi-so...
Catastrophic Landslide Induced by Typhoon Morakot, Shiaolin, Taiwan
Typhoon Morakot induced the catastrophic and deadly Shiaolin landslide in southern Taiwan on 9 August 2009, resulting in more than 400 casualties. We undertook a geological and geo...
Frequency Ratio Model Based Landslide Susceptibility Mapping in Lower Mae Chaem Watershed, Northern Thailand
The purpose of this study is to produce a landslide susceptibility map for the lower Mae Chaem watershed, northern Thailand using a Geographic Information System (GIS) and remotely...
Mesoscale data assimilation of Myanmar cyclone Nargis Part II: Assimilation of GPS-derived precipitable water vapor
Four-dimensional variational (4D-Var) data assimilation (DA) experiments using Global Positioning System (GPS)-derived precipitable water vapor (PWV) were conducted for the tropica...
Landslide Hazard and Community-Based Risk Reduction Effort in Karanganyar and the Surrounding Area, Central Java, Indonesia
Karanganyar and the surrounding area are situated in a dynamic volcanic arc region, where landslide frequently occurs during the rainy season. The rain-induced landslide disasters ...
Modulation of North Pacific Tropical Cyclone Activity by Three Phases of ENSO
Tropical Pacific Ocean warming has been separated into two modes based on the spatial distribution of the maximum sea surface temperature (SST) anomaly: an east Pacific warming (EP...
Modeling the hydrologic responses of the Pampanga River basin, Philippines: A quantitative approach for identifying droughts
Drought in the Philippines has been monitored for agricultural and economic losses, but spatial and temporal characterization at the basin scale has not been quantified. The relati...
Interannual variations of tropical cyclone activity over the north Indian Ocean
An examination of the interannual variations of tropical cyclone (TC) activity over the North Indian Ocean during 1983–2008 has been carried out. The results suggest that instead...
Influence of peatland and land cover distribution on fire regimes in insular Southeast Asia
Anthropogenic biomass burning in insular Southeast Asia facilitates conversion and degradation of ecosystems and emits high amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. We analyzed the i...
Coastal inundation and damage exposure estimation: a case study for Jakarta
Coastal flooding poses serious threats to coastal areas, and the vulnerability of coastal communities and economic sectors to flooding will increase in the coming decades due to en...