Publications List
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The global drought monitor portal: The foundation for a global drought information system
Heim, R. R.Brewer, M.
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Farmers' perceptions of and responses to annual flood events in the Vietnamese Mekong River Delta: adapting to climate change impacts
Nguyen, V. K.Alexander, K.
Regions around the globe with a monsoon climate experience large inter- seasonal variations of river flows (FAO, 2009). One of the world’s largest r...
MULTI-MODEL OPTIMIZATION FOR SHELTER-SITE SELECTION: A CASE STUDY IN BANTA MUNICIPALITY, THAILAND
BOONMEE, C.IKUTOMI, N.ASADA, T.ARIMURA, M.
Due to the world is stricken by disasters, people got effect both loss of human life and loss of assets. Therefore, urban planning is important for ev...
Modeling of floods and flood control water reservoirs for evaluation of inundation Da Nang province of Vietnam.
Perminov, A. V.Kozyr, I. E.
Monsoon rains cause floods in Viet Nam almost every year, particularly in the city of Da Nang, where the stormy rainfall has brought to almost 600 mm ...
The increasing intensity of the strongest tropical cyclones
Elsner, James B.James P. KossinThomas H. Jagger
Atlantic tropical cyclones are getting stronger on average, with a 30-year trend that has been related to an increase in ocean temperatures over the A...
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...
Evaluation of TRMM 3B42 precipitation estimates of tropical cyclone rainfall using PACRAIN data
T. ChenE. E. EbertK. J.E. WalahN. E. Davidson
This study evaluates the latest release TRMM 3B42 version 7 (V7) estimates of daily rainfall in tropical cyclones (TCs) using the Comprehensive Pacifi...
Impacts of climate change on the amphibians and reptiles of Southeast Asia
Bickford, D.Howard, S.D.Ng, D.J.J.Sheridan, J.A.
Amphibians and reptiles will be adversely affected by projected rapid changes in climate in the next decades. Here, we review the known and potential ...
Flood mapping in the lower Mekong River Basin using daily MODIS observations
Fayne, J. V.Bolten, J. D.Doyle, C. S.Fuhrmann, S.Rice, M. T.Houser, P. R.Lakshmi, V.
In flat homogenous terrain such as in Cambodia and Vietnam, the monsoon season brings significant and consistent flooding between May and November. To...
Field level damage of deepwater rice by the 2011 Southeast Asian Flood in a flood plain of Tonle Sap Lake, Northwest Cambodia
Kamoshita, A.Ouk, M.
The 2011 ?ood damaged about 11 % of planting area in Cambodia, but the damaged proportion reached 30 % in Sangke district, Battambang province, locate...
The Brunei Slide: A Giant Submarine Landslide on the North West Borneo Margin Revealed by 3D Seismic Data
Gee, M. J. R.Uy, H. S.Warren, J.Morley, C. K.Lambiase, J. J.
Three dimensional seismic data, offshore Brunei, provide evidence for a giant landslide with a volume of 1200 km3, an area of ~ 5300 km2 and an ave...
Using household survey data for 1998, this paper assesses the distributional impact of the recent economic crisis in the Philippines. The results sugg...
Patterns of Rainfall Insurance Participation in Rural India
Giné, XavierRobert TownsendJames Vickery
Take-up of an innovative rainfall insurance policy offered to smallholder farmers in rural India decreases with basis risk between insurance payouts a...
Urban inundation is a serious challenge that increasingly confronts the residents of many cities, as well as policymakers. Hence, inundation evaluatio...
The use of Remote Sensing Data for Drought Assessment and Monitoring in Southwest Asia
Thenkaball, P.S., Gamage, M.S.D.N., Smakhtin, V.U.
Droughts are recurring climatic events, which often hit South Asia, bringing significant water shortages, economic losses and adverse social consequen...
Simultaneously mitigating near-term climate change and improving human health and food security
D. ShindellJ. C. I. KuylenstiernaE. VignatiR. van DingenenM. AmannZ. Klimon
Tropospheric ozone and black carbon (BC) contribute to both degraded air quality and global warming. We considered ~400 emission control measures to r...
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Capacity development to support national drought management policies
UN-Water Activity Information System
has been estimated that droughts are the world’s costliest natural disasters and affect more people than any other form of natural disaster (Wilhite...
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