Mr. J.C.W. EdiriweeraAbstract
Floods can be generally considered in two categories, flash floods and general floods. Flash floods occur within a minutes after heavy rainfall. This situation generates an urban flood. Flood disaster is recorded to cause about the third of all natural disasters in...
Mr. Jin WeiAbstract
Flash floods are known to be one of the most dangerous natural killers. They occur as a result of very heavy rainfall distributed over an area within a short period of time. Lead time is a very important factor to take emergent action for reducing the impacts of flash flood....
Nguyen Khac Tien Phuoc
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Thua Thien Hue is one of the costal provinces in the center part of Vietnam which has the tropical monsoon climate and it is often affected by tropical cyclones. High rainfall intensity in rainy season and steep gradient of terrain are the two main reasons that...
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Dragan Tutulić
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Urban flooding has become a very important and growing issue around the world. Since it remains to be an inevitable danger, the development of effective flood management plans is of the utmost importance for every country and par...
Ms. Rahel Sintayehu Tessema
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Drought is an insidious natural hazard characterized by lower than expected or lower than normal precipitation that, when extended over a season or longer period of time. Farming communities in the Ethiopia and around the world lose a lot of money every y...
Mr. Cheng Peng
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Nowadays, due to the climate change, urban development and other human interventions, flood is still a major challenge to humanity. Yellow River is the second longest river in China. Yellow River basin has massive economic significance for the development of the countr...
Mr. Bheem Bahadur Dhant
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Most of rivers in cities and towns in urban areas are under serious threat of degradation resulting from constant discharge of polluted effluents stemming from industrial, agricultural, mining, domestic and sewage activities. The Ljubljanica River which flows...
Ms. Dong WuAbstract
The Yellow River Delta is a place where hydrodynamics play a prominent role. The decreased Yellow River flow and the altered flow regime during the last decades are supposed to be the most likely factors responsible for the problems in terms of ecosystem deterioration, habita...
Mr. HidayatAbstract
River flow forecasting is very important for flood management, navigation, water allocation, etc. Currently, there is a growing need of knowing the quantity of flow several hours or days ahead to anticipate extreme conditions, i.e. flood and drought. Rainfall-runoff modelling...
Mr. Huang WeiAbstract
Lugu Lake, which belongs to two provinces, Yunnan and Sichuan Province, is the native place of "The Females' Kingdom" composed of the Mosuo people, a branch of the Naxi nationality. The lake is a very clean and green lake, and there are many kinds of fish, carps a...
