Ensemble forecasting of tropical cyclone motion using a barotropic model. Part III: Combining perturbations of the environment and the vortex
This is the third in a series of papers to investigate the applicability of the ensemble forecasting (EF) technique in the prediction of tropical cyclone (TC) motion. In the previo...
Drought Mitigation in the United States: Progress by State Government
Drought has been a recurrent feature of the American landscape in recent years, resulting in significant impacts in many economic sectors, including agriculture, transportation, en...
Drought preparedness planning: Building institutional capacity
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Economic costs of drought and rice farmers' coping mechanisms
The nature and frequency of drought in subhumid regions, its impact on farmers' livelihoods, farmers' drought-coping strategies, and the welfare implications of drought have not be...
Emergency preparedness system for the Lower Mekong River Basin: a conceptual approach using earth observation and geomatics
With the aid of the Canadian Space Agency and the Canadian geospatial industry (Ærde, HCL, Strata 360), CARTEL is working in close collaboration with the Mekong River Commission (...
The Reservoir Stress Path And Its Implications For Water-Flooding, Champion Southeast Field, Brunei. In Alaska Rocks 2005, The 40th US Symposium on Rock Mechanics (USRMS)
A geomechanical study of the Champion Southeast (CPSE) field, Brunei was undertaken as part of the planning of a waterflood in the field. The key geomechanical issue addressed dete...
Annual Cycle of Southeast Asia—Maritime Continent Rainfall and the Asymmetric Monsoon Transition
In general, the Bay of Bengal, Indochina Peninsula, and Philippines are in the Asian summer monsoon regime while the Maritime Continent experiences a wet monsoon during boreal wint...
Flooding in Jakarta Towards a blue city with improved water management
Sunday, 27 January 2002, a large ?ood swept down on Jakarta and inundated several parts of the city.1 From the evening of 27 January to the morning of 28 January rain came streamin...
Monitoring and predicting agricultural drought: a global study
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Climate Change in Malaysia
It has been more than 10 years since Malaysia ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and developments since then have been encouraging, both lo...
A simulated soil moisture based drought analysis for the United States
Droughts have severe economic, environmental and social impacts. Timely determination of the current level of drought may aid the decision making process in reducing the impacts fr...
Global warming and western north Pacific typhoon activity from an observational perspective
Based on results from climate model simulations, many researchers have suggested that because of global warming, the sea surface temperature (SST) will likely increase, which will ...
Southeast Asian biodiversity: an impending disaster
Southeast Asia has the highest relative rate of deforestation of any major tropical region, and could lose three quarters of its original forests by 2100 and up to 42% of its biodi...