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Minor, shallow landslides have occurred frequently on the island of Singapore. However, very few major landslides (greater than 10 m in height) have o...
This paper is concerned with the invocation of the responsibility to protect (RtoP) in the face of the Myanmar authorities' problematic response to Cy...

Mekong delta mathematical model program construction

Zanobetti, D.Lorgeré, H.Preissmann, A.Cunge, J. A.
It has been proposed to control the flood which periodically inundates 50,000 sq km in the Lower Basin of the Mékong River in Cambodia and South Viet...
Rapid development in the upper reaches of the Mekong River, in the form of construction of large hydropower dams and reservoirs, large irrigation sche...
ASEAN states have favoured diplomacy and peer pressure in order to sway Myanmar's military regime to release Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and other political ...

Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest. Science

Phillips, O. L.Aragao, L. E. O. C.Lewis, S. L.Fisher, J. B.Lloyd, J.Lopez-Gonzalez, G.ETC
Amazon forests are a key but poorly understood component of the global carbon cycle. If, as anticipated, they dry this century, they might accelerate ...
Satellites measurements from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on Aqua and the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Sat...
This study evaluates the susceptibility of landslides in the Lai Chau province of Vietnam using Geographic Information System (GIS) and remote sensing...
This paper analyses monthly differences in drought impact on vegetation activity in a semi-arid region in the north-east of the Iberian Peninsula betw...
An assessment of the nature and causes of drought in the southeastern United States is conducted as well as an assessment of model projections of anth...
In the rainfed lowlands of South-East Asia, rice yields are low and often respond weakly to fertilizers. Studies of soils in Cambodia and North-East T...
Rapidly rising populations of low-lying megacities in Asia mean that understanding the potential risk of coastal flooding by storm surge is of paramou...
Landslides cause damage to property and unfortunately pose a threat even to human lives. Good landslide susceptibility, hazard, and risk models could ...
Awareness of environmental services and land use change in Southeast Asia is high among scientists, policymakers, and society. In the case of transbou...

Spatial variation of damage due to storm surge and waves during Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines

BRICKER, J. D.TAKAGI, H.MAS, E.KURE, S.ADRIANO, B.YI, C.ROEBER, V.
Field measurements and numerical simulations are used to assess the resons for different types of water-related structural damage observed in Tacloban...

Three steps of one-way nested grid for energy balance equations by wave model

W. WannawongU. W. HumphriesP. WongwisesS. Vongvisessomjai
The three steps of the standard one-way nested grid for a regional scale of the third generation WAve Model Cycle 4 (WAMC4) is scrutinized. The model ...

The Dvorak tropical cyclone intensity estimation technique: a satellite-based method that has endured for over 30 years

Velden, C.Harper, B.Wells, F.Beven, J.L.Zehr, R.Olander, T.Mayfield, M.Guard, C.Lander, M.Edson, R.Avila, L.Burton, A.Turk, M.Kikuchi, A.Christian, A.Caroff, P.McCrone, P
The history of meteorology has taught us that weather analysis and prediction usually advances by a series of small, progressive studies. Occasionally...
Due to the diminishing Coriolis force towards the equator, the equatorial zone is known to be cyclone-free. However, on 27th December 2001, a tropical...
It has been more than 10 years since Malaysia ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and developments since then ...