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Rafiu Oyelakin, Wenyu Yang and Peter Krebs
Fitting probability distribution functions to observed data is the standard way to compute future design floods, but may not accurately reflect the projected future pattern of extreme events related to climate change. In applying the latest coupled model...
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Devendra M. Amatya, Timothy J. Callahan, Sourav Mukherjee, Charles A. Harrison, Carl C. Trettin, Andrzej Walega, Dariusz Mlynski and Kristen D. Emmett
Hydrology and meteorological data from relatively undisturbed watersheds aid in identifying effects on ecosystem services, tracking hydroclimatic trends, and reducing model uncertainties. Sustainable forest, water, and infrastructure management depends o...
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Gerald Albert Baeribameng Yiran, Martin Oteng Ababio, Albert Nii Moe Allotey, Richard Yao Kofie and Lasse Møller-Jensen
Climate change seriously threatens human systems, properties and livelihoods. Global projections suggest a continuous increase in the frequency and severity of weather events, with severe outcomes. Although the trends and impacts are highly variable depe...
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Ali Aldrees, Abdulrasheed Mohammed, Salisu Dan?azumi and Sani Isah Abba
Flooding is a major environmental problem facing urban cities, causing varying degrees of damage to properties and disruption to socio-economic activities. Nigeria is the most populous African country and Kano metropolis is the second largest urban cente...
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Eleftheria Eliopoulou, Aimilia Alissafaki and Apostolos Papanikolaou
This paper deals with a statistical analysis of maritime accidents pertaining to passenger ships in worldwide operation and, ultimately, with the assessment of the current safety level of the particular ship type, assuming that the safety level may be de...
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Wenying Du, Chang Ge, Shuang Yao, Nengcheng Chen and Lei Xu
Volunteered geographic information (VGI) plays an increasingly crucial role in flash floods. However, topic classification and spatiotemporal analysis are complicated by the various expressions and lengths of social media textual data. This paper conduct...
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Nadya Buga and Marko Petek
In Europe, the intensity and frequency of flooding events are expected to increase due to climate change, adding additional challenges to agricultural production and creating the need for new plant products and adaptation tools. Cabbage is one economical...
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Hanaa A. Megahed, Amira M. Abdo, Mohamed A. E. AbdelRahman, Antonio Scopa and Mohammed N. Hegazy
The occurrence of flash floods is a natural yet unavoidable occurrence over time. In addition to harming people, property, and resources, it also undermines a country?s economy. This paper attempts to identify areas of flood vulnerability using a frequen...
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Sridhara Nayak
We investigated rainfall patterns over India for the period from 1951 to 2010 and predicted changes for the next century (2051?2100) with an assumed 4K warming from large ensemble experiments (190 members). We focused on rainfall patterns during two peri...
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Seung-Won Suh and Myeong-Hee Lee
The vulnerability to coastal disasters resulting from storm surges and wave overtopping (WOT) during typhoon intrusions is significantly escalating due to rising sea levels. In particular, coastal seawalls constructed along the coast through engineered a...
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