Category: Early Warning
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Navigating Flood Modeling Challenges in the Unique Terrain of the UAE
The UAE’s terrain is shaped by wind rather than water flows, presenting significant obstacles to accurate flood modeling. Instead of rivers, water flows along dune formations in an interconnected network of surface ponds. A study by UAE University found that predicting upstream dune absorption is impacted by factors like groundwater at 2-5m depth varying soil…
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Planet Vs Plastics
Earth Day 2024 is a day that reminds us of our shared responsibility to protect and preserve our planet. We are facing a crisis that threatens the very foundations of our existence – the plastic pollution crisis. The statistics are alarming. We have already created 11 billion metric tons of plastic, surpassing the combined weight…
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The Global Crisis of Land Subsidence: A Call for Holistic Action
In recent years, we have seen alarming rates of subsidence in major cities around the world. From Jakarta to Mexico City, from Venice to Shanghai, the ground beneath millions of people is literally sinking. In China alone, a systematic assessment using spaceborne synthetic aperture radar interferometry has revealed that almost half of the urban land…
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Happiness Through Emotional Granularity
Today may be one of those days again, and I was searching for myself- how to be happier by increasing emotional granularity? Identifying and describing our emotions in detail is a skill called emotional granularity can help us better understand and regulate our feelings. People who use broad terms like “angry,” “sad,” or “stressed” have…
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Could El Niño Long Range Warning System help countries manage the effects of severe weather events?
Currently many countries are experiencing severe drought. Could the impacts of drought have been minimised with an effective long-range warning system (LRWS)? Three-stage warning systems that conduct short, medium and seasonal forecasting can prepare industries and communities for both severe weather events and the impacts of El Niño. When ocean conditions suggest that an El Niño may be…
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UN launches COVID-19 plan that could ‘defeat the virus and build a better world’
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Multi-hazards early warning system for Dominica
With golden sands, azure-hued waters and temperature averages sitting nicely in the mid-20s, the island nation of Dominica in the Caribbean is a picturesque paradise you’d see on a postcard or a screensaver. It’s Dominica’s tropical location that gives it its paradise-like qualities. That same location however, leaves Dominica prone to hurricanes, high-wind, high-rainfall, earthquakes,…
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Preferences for improved early warning services among coastal communities at risk in cyclone
Cyclone early warning systems are the primary sources of information that enable people to develop a preparedness strategy to mitigate the hazards of cyclones to lives and livelihoods. In Bangladesh, cyclone early warnings have significantly decreased the number of cyclone related fatalities over the last two decades. Nevertheless, several challenges remain for existing early warning…
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Understanding Risk Finance Pacific Forum – Vanuatu
The Understanding Risk Finance Pacific Forum was recently held in Vanuatu, with policymakers, financial risk managers and development partners from the region and around the globe converging upon Port Vila to strengthen regional collaboration in the Pacific. Co-organised by the Government of Vanuatu’s Ministry of Finance and Economic Management (MFEM) and the World Bank’s Disaster…
Bapon (SHM) Fakhruddin, PhD 