Agricultural drought in a future climate: results from 15 global climate models participating in the IPCC 4th assessment
This study examines the impact of greenhouse gas warming on soil moisture based on predictions of 15 global climate models by comparing the after-stabilization climate in the SRESA...
Mapping paddy rice agriculture in South and Southeast Asia using multi-temporal MODIS images
In this paper, we developed a new geospatial database of paddy rice agriculture for 13 countries in South and Southeast Asia. These countries have ~ 30% of the world population an...
Evolution of ENSO-related rainfall anomalies in Southeast Asia region and its relationship with atmosphere–ocean variations in Indo-Pacific sector
The Southeast Asia rainfall (SEAR) anomalies depend strongly on phases of El Niño (La Niña). Using an extended empirical orthogonal function (EEOF) analysis, it is shown that the...
Increasing destructiveness of tropical cyclones over the past 30 years
Theory1 and modelling2 predict that hurricane intensity should increase with increasing global mean temperatures, but work on the detection of trends in hurricane activity has focu...
Probabilistic Landslide Susceptibility Mapping in the Lai Chau Province of Vietnam: Focus on the Relationship between Tectonic Fractures and Landslides
This study evaluates the susceptibility of landslides in the Lai Chau province of Vietnam using Geographic Information System (GIS) and remote sensing data to focus on the relation...
Evolution of ENSO-related rainfall anomalies in Southeast Asia region and its relationship with atmosphere–ocean variations in Indo-Pacific sector
The Southeast Asia rainfall (SEAR) anomalies depend strongly on phases of El Niño (La Niña). Using an extended empirical orthogonal function (EEOF) analysis, it is shown that the...
Regional vegetation die-off in response to global-change-type drought
Future drought is projected to occur under warmer temperature conditions as climate change progresses, referred to here as global-change-type drought, yet quantitative assessments ...
Paddy weed control by medicinal and leguminous plants from Southeast Asia
Four common medicinal and two leguminous plant species from Southeast Asia were selected from a preliminary survey and examined for their potential use in paddy weed control. The s...
Natural disaster hotspots: a global risk analysis
Earthquakes, floods, drought, and other natural hazards cause tens of thousands of deaths, hundreds of thousands of injuries, and billions of dollars in economic losses each year a...
A severe centennial-scale drought in midcontinental North America 4200 years ago and apparent global linkages
We present evidence from a variety of physical and biological proxies for a severe drought that affected the mid-continent of North America between 4.1 and 4.3 ka. Rapid climate ch...
Probabilistic Landslide Susceptibility and Factor Effect Analysis
The susceptibility of landslides and the effect of landslide-related factors at Penang in Malaysia using the geographic information system (GIS) and remote sensing data have been e...
THE PHYSICS OF TROPICAL CYCLONE MOTION
Abstract This article reviews our current understanding of the physical mechanisms governing the movement of a tropical cyclone. In a barotropic framework, a tropical cyclone is ba...
A case-based fuzzy multicriteria decision support model for tropical cyclone forecasting
This paper proposes a multi-stage framework for intelligent decision support. The proposed framework integrates case-based reasoning and fuzzy multicriteria decision making techniq...