On the roles of the northeast cold surge, the Borneo vortex, the Madden-Julian Oscillation, and the Indian Ocean Dipole during the extreme 2006/2007 flood in southern Peninsular Malaysia
[1] The mid-December 2006 to late January 2007 flood in southern Peninsular Malaysia was the worst flood in a century and was caused by three extreme precipitation episodes. These...
Climate Change and Regional Vulnerability to Transnational Security Threats in Southeast Asia
Transnational and non-state threats including international organized crime, terrorism, illicit trafficking (in drugs, wildlife, humans, arms, etc.), piracy, infectious disease, an...
Climate Change and Regional Vulnerability to Transnational Security Threats in Southeast Asia
Transnational and non-state threats including international organized crime, terrorism, illicit trafficking (in drugs, wildlife, humans, arms, etc.), piracy, infectious disease, an...
GIS and local knowledge in disaster management: a case study of flood risk mapping in Viet Nam
Linking community knowledge with modern techniques to record and analyse risk related data is one way of engaging and mobilising community capacity. This paper discusses the use of...
Crisis in Myanmar and the Responsibility to Protect
Cyclone Nargis has killed an estimated 100,000 people in Myanmar and left some two million people in desperate need of help. It has also laid bare ASEAN and the international commu...
Predictive landslide susceptibility mapping using spatial information in the Pechabun area of Thailand
For predictive landslide susceptibility mapping, this study applied and verified probability model, the frequency ratio and statistical model, logistic regression at Pechabun, Thai...
Impact of the Mekong River flow alteration on the Tonle Sap flood pulse
Rapid development in the upper reaches of the Mekong River, in the form of construction of large hydropower dams and reservoirs, large irrigation schemes, and rapid urban developme...
Impact of the Mekong River Flow Alteration on the Tonle Sap Flood Pulse
Rapid development in the upper reaches of the Mekong River, in the form of construction of large hydropower dams and reservoirs, large irrigation schemes, and rapid urban developme...
A dynamical downscaling case study for typhoons in Southeast Asia using a regional climate model
This study explores the possibility of reconstructing the weather of Southeast Asia for the last decades using an atmospheric regional climate model, the Climate version of the Lok...
Climate regulation of fire emissions and deforestation in equatorial Asia
Drainage of peatlands and deforestation have led to large-scale fires in equatorial Asia, affecting regional air quality and global concentrations of greenhouse gases. Here we used...
Adaptation to Climate Change. Needs and Opportunities in Southeast Asia
This paper focuses on the adaptation strategies of developing countries and the possible adaptation options available for Southeast Asia. Adaptation refers to the actions taken by ...
Future hydroclimatology of the Mekong River basin simulated using the high-resolution Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) AGCM
Analysis of future Japan Meteorological Agency atmospheric general circulation model (JMA AGCM) based climate scenarios for the Mekong River basin (MRB) indicates that annual mean ...
A statistical cyclone intensity prediction (SCIP) model for the Bay of Bengal
A statistical model for predicting the intensity of tropical cyclones in the Bay of Bengal has been proposed. The model is developed applying multiple linear regression technique. ...
Influence of monsoon over the warm pool on interannual variation on tropical cyclone activity over the western North Pacific
The relationship between the interannual variation in tropical cyclone (TC) activity over the western North Pacific (WNP) and the thermal state over the warm pool (WP) is examined ...