Abstract Climate change is an underlying cause of many extreme events such as enormous cyclones and erratic torrential rains. These phenomena threaten farmers in coastal regions Myanmar. Self-insurance through means crop diversification insufficient for sustainable farm management. Weather index insurance (WII) receiving much attention because its low management costs. An optimum WII contract f...

The Seti River originates from the Annapurna Massif in Higher Himalaya of Nepal and flows through Pokhara valley Lesser Himalaya. witnessed a disastrous flash flood on May 5th, 2012 causing death 72 people, obliterating dozens homes damaging infrastructures worth millions dollars. Despite event several warnings by scientists for more yet bigger scale future floods valley, fluvial risk is being ...

BACKGROUND Uterine AV malformation is a rare cause of torrential post-abortal hemorrhage, which can present with varying grades of severity. Diagnosis requires a high degree of suspicion and is done with ultrasound and Doppler. CASE SERIES In our institution, during the period 2008-2013, five cases of symptomatic uterine AVMs have been reported. All of them were in the reproductive age group ...

Taiwan is located at the collision boundary of the Philippine sea plate and the Eurasian plate. The mountain terrain is precipitous and the region, on the whole, is characterized by fragile rocks and frequent seismic activity. In addition, the concentrated torrential rainfall brought by typhoons cause extensive disasters, debris flow, the most serious disaster caused by torrential rainfall, lea...

[1] We examined the relationships between large wood (LW) export and precipitation patterns and intensity by analyzing the data on the annual volume of LW removed from 42 reservoirs and the daily precipitation at or near the reservoir sites. We also calculated the effective precipitation by considering the antecedent precipitation. Both daily and effective precipitation data were used as explan...

The incidence of extreme precipitation has increased with the exacerbation of worldwide climate disruption. We hypothesize an association between precipitation and the distribution patterns that would affect the endemic burden of 8 infectious diseases in Taiwan, including water- and vector-borne infectious diseases. A database integrating daily precipitation and temperature, along with the infe...

Change of the environment, namely climate change and human activities, is influencing hydrological cycles globally. Nonstationary changes have been widely detected in precipitation series, which has significantly increased flood risk various areas. Taking Taihu Basin as typical study area, nonstationary characteristics are analyzed through Mann-Kendall trend test, Pettitt abrupt Sen’s slope est...

The study derives Bahr el Jebel flow data at Mongalla, combining upstream flow from Lake Albert and torrential runoff derived from the Collaborative Historical African Rainfall Model (CHARM) rainfall data in the catchment between Lake Albert and Mongalla using GIS techniques. The results provide an updated rating curve for Lake Albert outflows and currently unavailable flow data at Mongalla, th...

Imaging methods developed to characterise the oscillatory free surface of rapid flows are presented and applied to torrential currents over sediment antidunes. The aim is to obtain high-resolution relief maps of the free surface topography. Two measurement principles are tested, both based on the imaging of floating tracers dispersed on the rapidly flowing surface. The first technique involves ...