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A Case Study of Rainfall and Temperature Trends in San Diego Region, 1985–2017
Hydrology, 2019 Prolonged and frequent droughts in Southern California present hazards and uncertainty for the region’s increasing population, resulting in proactive and aggressive water management strategies.
Esther Mosase +3 more
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Climate Services, 2022 Effective utilization of available weather and climate information is important to develop efficient and sustainable agricultural production systems. National meteorological agencies supported by global and regional centers are trying to generate climate
Agarwal Anshul +6 more
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Satellite-based emergency mapping using optical imagery: experience and reflections from the 2015 Nepal earthquakes [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2018 Landslides triggered by large earthquakes in mountainous regions contribute significantly to overall earthquake losses and pose a major secondary hazard that can persist for months or years. While scientific investigations of coseismic landsliding are
J. G. Williams +10 more
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Epistemic uncertainties and natural hazard risk assessment – Part 1: A review of different natural hazard areas [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2018 This paper discusses how epistemic uncertainties are currently considered in the most widely occurring natural hazard areas, including floods, landslides and debris flows, dam safety, droughts, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic ash clouds and ...
K. J. Beven +18 more
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Local level multi-hazard zonation of Nepal
Geomatics, Natural Hazards & Risk, 2021 This study performs district and local administrative level multi-hazard zonation of Nepal. As multiple natural hazards are frequent, and their losses are enormous, multi-hazard zonation maps can provide important insights before the occurrence of ...
Dipendra Gautam +3 more
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Charity hazard : A real hazard to natural disaster insurance? [PDF]
, 2007 After the flooding in 2002 European governments provided billions of Euros of financial assistance to their citizens. Although there is no doubt that solidarity and some sort of assistance is reasonable, the question arises why these damages were not ...
Raschky, Paul A. +1 more
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A typology of marine and estuarine hazards and risks as vectors of change : a review for vulnerable coasts and their management [PDF]
, 2014 This paper illustrates a typology of 14 natural and anthropogenic hazards, the evidence for their causes and consequences for society and their role as vectors of change in estuaries, vulnerable coasts and marine areas.
Cutts, Nicholas D. +2 more
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On the Nearshore Significant Wave Height Inversion from Video Images Based on Deep Learning
Journal of Marine Science and EngineeringAccurate observation of nearshore waves is crucial for coastal safety. In this study, the feasibility of extracting wave information from wave video images captured by shore-based cameras using deep learning methods was explored, focusing on inverting ...
Chao Xu +8 more
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HYPOCENTER DETERMINATION AND CLUSTERING OF VOLCANO-TECTONIC EARTHQUAKES IN GEDE VOLCANO 2015
Jurnal Neutrino: Jurnal Fisika dan Aplikasinya, 2017 Gede volcano is an active volcano in West Java, Indonesia. Research about determination the volcano-tectonic earthquake source positions has given results using volcano-tectonic earthquakes data from January until November 2015.
Aulia Kharisma Nugraha +2 more
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Health in Emergencies & Disasters Quarterly, 2021 Background: Hospitals, especially their emergency departments, are among the first health systems affected by accidents and disasters. Because of its nature and obligation to provide the highest quality services, this department should have protocols for
Asma Bahranifard +3 more
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