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DroughtScape- Summer 2008 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
VegDRI Expands West Spring Rains Ease Drought But CA Still Dry Scholar Donates Books NDMC Welcomes Employees Bathke, Nothwehr Latest Workshop Info Up State Lawmakers to Focus on Drought Planning Decadal Variation -- Clues to Droughts and ...
Smith, Kelly
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Exposure of manufacturing firms to future sea level rise in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

open access: yesJournal of Maps, 2019
Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) is facing notably high levels in current and future flooding. Simultaneously, the ongoing process of rapid industrialization is characterized by the strong emergence of manufacturing firms within the urban area.
Roxana Leitold, Javier Revilla Diez
doaj   +1 more source

THE ABUNDANT RAINFALLS FROM OLTENIA BETWEEN THE 18TH AND THE 23RD OF SEPTEMBER 2005 [PDF]

open access: yesAnalele Universității din Craiova. Seria Geografie, 2007
The present paper (a case study) aims at analyzing the synoptic conditions registered between the 18th and the 23rd of September 2005, which led to extremely abundant rainfalls fallen on 12-24 hour intervals and to severe floods in Oltenia, as well as ...
Ion MARINICĂ
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The 2-3 November 2015 flood of the Sió River (NE Iberian Peninsula): a flash flood that turns into a mudflow downstream [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Historical and recent evidence shows that many floods in the interior of Catalonia (NE Iberian Peninsula) usually have such a great sediment load that can even alter the hydraulic behaviour of the flow. This is especially true in catchments with a great
Balasch Solanes, Josep Carles   +7 more
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Surging Seas [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Estimates sea level rise and risk of floods from storm surges in fifty-five low-lying coastal areas in the contiguous United States; land, populations, and housing at risk; and humanitarian and economic implications.
Ben Strauss   +2 more
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Rethinking Urban Flood Risk Assessment By Adapting Health Domain Perspective [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv
Inspired by ideas from health risk assessment, this paper presents a new perspective for flood risk assessment. The proposed perspective focuses on three pillars for examining flood risk: (1) inherent susceptibility, (2) mitigation strategies, and (3) external stressors.
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An analysis of the determinants of flood damages [PDF]

open access: yes
In this paper we analyze mortality caused by 2,194 large flood events between 1985 and 2008 in 108 countries. Unlike previous studies that looked at natural-disaster mortality, we find that year-to-year changes in income and institutional determinants of
Ferreira, Susana
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