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Adolescents and Floods: An Exploratory Study from Kerala [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences University, 2021
Background: A better understanding regarding the experiences faced by adolescents is essential to plan need based interventions and disaster preparedness. Aim and Objectives: To assess impact of floods among adolescents in Kerala.
Aby Dany Varghese   +4 more
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Flooding Hazard and Vulnerability. An Interdisciplinary Experimental Approach for the Study of the 2016 West Virginia Floods

open access: yesFrontiers in Water, 2021
The hydrosocial (HS) and social-hydro (SH) frameworks each attempt to understand the complexity of water and society, but they have emerged from historically disparate fields with distinctly different goals as well as methodological and epistemological ...
Martina Angela Caretta   +3 more
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Flood resilience [PDF]

open access: yesPhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2020
Three different conceptual frameworks of resilience, including engineering, ecological and social–ecological have been presented and framed within the context of flood risk management. Engineering resilience has demonstrated its value in the design and operation of technological systems in general and in flood resilient technologies in particular ...
Chris Zevenbergen   +2 more
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Integrating Multiple Research Methods to Unravel the Complexity of Human‐Water Systems

open access: yesAGU Advances, 2021
Predicting floods and droughts is essential to inform the development of policy in water management, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction.
Giuliano Di Baldassarre   +11 more
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Assessment of flash flood detection in Erbil city using change detection indices for SAR images [PDF]

open access: yesEngineering and Technology Journal
The frequency and intensity of flash floods are expected to increase due to climate change, resulting in significant casualties and damage to infrastructure and the economy.
Abbas Noori   +2 more
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Flood Early Warning System by Twitter Using LoRa

open access: yesProceedings, 2018
In this paper, a sensor network architecture is presented. This work proposes an early warning system for river overflows. The sensor network consists of a river level sensor node that measures the distance between the sensor and the mass of water using ...
Ernesto Leon   +3 more
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Hourly storm characteristics along the U.S. West Coast: Role of atmospheric rivers in extreme precipitation

open access: yesGeophysical Research Letters, 2017
Gridded hourly precipitation observations over the conterminous U.S., from 1948 to 2002, are analyzed to determine climatological characteristics of storm precipitation totals.
M. A. Lamjiri   +3 more
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Selected Crater and Small Caldera Lakes in Alaska: Characteristics and Hazards

open access: yesFrontiers in Earth Science, 2022
This study addresses the characteristics, potential hazards, and both eruptive and non-eruptive role of water at selected volcanic crater lakes in Alaska. Crater lakes are an important feature of some stratovolcanoes in Alaska.
Christopher F. Waythomas
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