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The AtGenExpress global stress expression data set: protocols, evaluation and model data analysis of UV-B light, drought and cold stress responses

Kilian, J.Whitehead, D.Horak, J.Wanke, D.Weinl, S.Batistic, O.D'Angelo, C.Bornberg-Bauer, E.Kudla, J.Harter, K.
The tolerance responses of plants to many abiotic stresses are conjectured to be controlled by complex gene networks. In the frame of the AtGenExpress...
Super Typhoon Haiyan (locally known as “Yolanda”), which featured wind speeds of 315 km/h, corresponding to a category 5, struck the Eastern Visa...
Daniel Boorstin introduced in 1961 the concept of pseudo-events of false realities which he said had been flooding the American Press (Boorstin, 1961)...
This paper presents the methodology used to detect temporal changes in the extent of annual flooding within the Cambodia and the Vietnamese Mekong Del...
The IBTRACS world database of tropical cyclone(TC) tracks was analysed to determine potential historical trends in TC characteristics for the west Pac...
A mesoscale ensemble prediction system (EPS) employing the Japan Meteorological Agency’s (JMA’s) high-resolution global analysis and forecast for ...
Comprehensive sensitivity analyses on physical parameterization schemes of Weather Research Forecast (WRF-ARW core) model have been carried out for th...
This paper evaluates the optimal spatial flood protection for people living with the threat of floods in the lower Mekong River region with respect to...
A rare drought occurred from 1998 to 2002 across much of the Northern Hemisphere midlatitude regions. Using observational data and numerical models, w...
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...

Promoting a Model of Research-Based Education in Disaster Mitigation.

Karnawati, D.Wilopo, W.Inderawan, G. B.Sudarno, I.Barianto, D. H.
This paper highlights the importance to provide appropriate education model with multidisciplinary approach for supporting the capacity development in...
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...
has been estimated that droughts are the world’s costliest natural disasters and affect more people than any other form of natural disaster (Wilhite...