A comprehensive risk assessment of different types natural disasters at the county level can promote quantitative disaster and provide a scientific basis for formulation prevention measures. Focusing on climate-related hazards based theories methods, this study integrates statistics, meteorological data, geographic information, other multivariate data to quantify various vulnerability exposure ...

Abstract Forest and freshwater ecosystems are tightly linked together provide important ecosystem services, but climate change is affecting their species composition, structure, function. Research at nine US Long Term Ecological sites reveals complex interactions cascading effects of change, some which feed back into the system. Air temperature has increased all sites, those in Northeast have b...

This study used a numerical model to simulate the floating trajectory of garbage falling into sea from landfill near coast Wanghaixiang Bay in northeast Taiwan understand its impact on local environment. The Regional Ocean Model System was probability densities distribution drifting trajectories under scenarios no-wind, monsoon, and typhoons. results show that, no-wind scenario, mainly affected...

The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) hydrological/water quality model divides a watershed into hydrological response units (HRUs) based on unique land cover, soil type, and slope. HRUs are a set of discontinuous land masses that are spatially located in the watershed but their responses are not tied to any particular field. Field_SWAT, a simple graphical user interface (GUI)-driven tool, w...

Nineteen species of deep-water scleractinian corals were collected at depths between 488-1222 m during ECOMARG 2003, 2008 and 2009 expeditions to the Avilds Canyon system, Le Danois Bank ('el Cachucho'), and Galicia Bank (northeast Atlantic). Eighteen of them were identified to species. All are previously known from the northeast Atlantic, although several are seldom reported (e.g., Aulocyathus...

In the present paper a geospatial analysis is performed to understand the meandering behaviour of Barak River in southern Assam between 1988 and 2010. Landsat images (with Thematic mapper and Enhanced thematic mapper-plus sensors) for years 1988, 1999, and 2010 are considered for the study. River Barak within the study area is digitized as polygons for three years and sinuosity index (SI) are c...

Mediterranean fluvial environments have responded sensitively to past changes in climate, physiographic conditions and human activity. Chronosequences of river terraces and alluvial deposits were established using morphologic, sedimentological and pedologic criteria, Cand Pb-dating techniques, historical data and pottery fragments. The objective of this study addresses the fluvial dynamic of se...

A review of the literature on the topic indicates that the assumption of normality to model load forecast uncertainty in power system reliability studies is valid [1,2,3,4]. From a practical perspective, the use of normal curves models the possibility of extreme loads that have not been observed in history. These extreme loads represent rare events that have a very low probability of occurrence...

Few data on iodine status in Somalia are available, but it is assumed that deficiency is a public health problem due to the limited access to iodized salt. We aimed to describe the iodine status of the population of Somalia and to investigate possible determinants of iodine status. A national 2-stage, stratified household cluster survey was conducted in 2009 in the Northwest, Northeast, and Sou...