Bangladesh, an alluvial and deltaic land of 147,570 square km, is prone to various natural disasters such as cyclones, floods, and droughts (Ahmad et al., 2001). The total population is about 130 million. The people of this country are still overburdened with various infectious diseases and ailments due to malnutrition. Unfortunately one more environmental hazard from geological sources – arsen...

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This paper reports on research that explores new possibilities for experiencing film as a digital database. The way we access, interact with and experience film is changed with new digital tools and initial visual experiments towards the design of a graphical user interface respond to this change. The film 2001:A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick is the focus for the research. It is essentially ...

This paper examines the global effects of droughts on economic activity and the influence of local and upstream large dams on this relationship. We use spatially-specific data on drought severity and nighttime lights data as a measure of economic activity. The analysis shows that severe and extreme droughts reduce local economic activity. In preliminary analyses, local dams appear to improve th...

In their 2001 book Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking, David Bayles and Ted Orland share a story about a ceramics teacher who divided his class into two groups. He told one half they would be graded on quantity, so they should “produce as many ceramics you can in one quarter, that will be your grade,” while he told the other half they would be graded based on one ...

Based on the national precipitation dataset in the Huang-Huai-Hai River Basin of China for the 1961–2011 period, the China-Z growing season index was calculated to analyze the characteristics of the evolution of meteorological droughts. Data from statistical droughts (the droughts which are defined and classified by the actual statistic data) were compared with those of meteorological droughts ...

A dynamically motivated statistical forecasting scheme for eastern Mediterranean winter rainfall is presented. The scheme is based on North Atlantic sea level pressure precursors. The resulting forecasts are robust and statistically significant at ;13 months lead time, and improve at ;7 months lead. It is suggested that these forecasts form a foundation for an operational early-warning system f...

The European land carbon uptake has been heavily impacted by several recent severe droughts, yet quantitative estimates of anomalies are uncertain. Atmospheric CO2 inverse models (AIMs) provide observation-based the large-scale flux dynamics, but how well they capture drought impacts on terrestrial is poorly known. Here we assessed capacity state-of-the-art AIMs in monitoring over 2001–2015 usi...