Publications List
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Causes and Predictability of the 2012 Great Plains Drought
Hoerling, M.Eischeid, J.Kumar, A.Leung, R.Mariotti, A.Mo, K.Schubert, S.Seager, R.
Central Great Plains precipitation deficits during May–August 2012 were the most severe since at least 1895, eclipsing the Dust Bowl summers of 1934...
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Bangladesh is frequently visited by natural disasters such as tropical cyclones, storm surges, floods, droughts, tornadoes, and “norwesters.” Of t...
Laos in 2008 will be remembered for the worst flooding in decades. No significant societal changes occurred; politics remains as usual, and the resour...
It is with pride to present the accomplishments of Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) for the year 2015. PHIVOLCS continued...
Anabranching fluvial networks recently have become the focus of attention from environmental specialists, especially in the hydraulic field. Anabranch...
Changes in Tropical Cyclone Activity due to Global Warming: Results from a High-Resolution Coupled General Circulation Model
Gualdi, SilvioEnrico ScoccimarroAntonio Navarra
This study investigates the possible changes that greenhouse global warming might generate in the characteristics of tropical cyclones (TCs). The anal...
Variability in Intense Tropical Cyclone Days in the Western North Pacific
H. KamahonN. YamazakiN. MannojiK. Takahashi
Variability in tropical cyclone (TC) days in the western North Pacific (WNP) since the late 1970s is investigated based on two datasets. As an overall...
The prevalence of natural disasters is not new and farmers, rural institutions and lenders have, over generations, developed ways of reducing and copi...
Monitoring Landslide Displacements with the Geocube Wireless Network of Low-Cost GPS
Benoit, L.P. BrioleO. MartinC. ThomJ.-P. MaletP. Ulrich
The analysis of landslide hazard requires continuous and high frequency surface displacement monitoring at numerous and geomorphologically relevant lo...
Critical role of northern off-equatorial sea surface temperature forcing associated with central Pacific El Niño in more frequent tropical cyclone movements toward East Asia
C. S. JinC. H. HoJ. H. kimD. K. KimD. H. ChaS. W. Yeh
Observational records reveal that the number of tropical cyclones (TCs) approaching East Asia in July–October is positively correlated with sea surf...
Development of Typhoon Disaster Evaluation System based on GIS
Zhang Bin, Chen Haiyan and Gu Junqiang
Typhoon is a kind of natural disasters which occurs frequently in inshore provinces of China in summer and autumn.The typhoon data-base from 1949 up t...
Tropical cyclones develop in the north Indian Ocean from 55 to 90°E and 5 to 20°N (Webster et al. 2005). The Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) mai...
Rainfall evaluation for the paddy cropping schedule in Lower Myanmar
Maung, M. N.Satoh, M.Fujiki, T.
In the Ngamoeyeik Irrigation Project Area outside of Yangon City in Lower Myanmar, rainy season paddy cultivation has traditionally been performed fro...
Rapid flooding of the Sunda Shelf: a late-glacial sea-level record
Hanebuth, T.Stattegger, K.Grootes, P. M.
The increase in sea level from the last glacial maximum has been derived from a siliciclastic system on the tectonically stable Sunda Shelf in Southea...
A large body of evidence shows that informal insurance is an important risk-smoothing mechanism in developing countries but that this risk sharing is ...
The poleward migration of the location of tropical cyclone maximum intensity
Kossin, James P.Kerry A. EmanuelGabriel A
Temporally inconsistent and potentially unreliable global historical data hinder the detection of trends in tropical cyclone activity1, 2, 3. This lim...
Malaysia lies in a geographically stable region, relatively free from natural disasters, but is affected by flooding, landslides, haze and other man-m...
It has been more than 10 years since Malaysia ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and developments since then ...
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