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The negative effects of progressive climate change, the occurrence of more and more frequent weather anomalies, the occurrence of climatic disasters in many parts of the world and other effects of the increasingly rapid process of global warming are deepening year by year. In many parts of the world, due to the accelerating process of global warming, higher and higher temperatures during summer heatwaves, longer and more severe periods of drought are being recorded year after year. Low surface water levels and droughts are not only the result of the progressive process of global warming, but also of improperly carried out land reclamation and drainage of wetlands and marshes, as well as the overexploitation of a large part of the land area under unsustainable agriculture carried out under the formula of intensive production of agricultural crops, including crops mainly for the production of livestock feed. On the other hand, in some parts of the world, increasingly frequent weather anomalies cause violent storms and downpours resulting in the occurrence of floods and flooding. The aforementioned floods and waterlogging are increasingly occurring in areas used for agriculture and in areas of urban agglomerations, which causes additional problems and economic losses.

At present, i.e. in February 2024, in many parts of the world in the Northern Hemisphere of planet Earth on the one hand where the snow has recently fallen there are floods and waterlogging during the thaw, and paradoxically in other countries next to those lying tens or hundreds of kilometers away there are record high temperatures and record particularly troublesome droughts, historically lowest water levels in rivers and lakes, a decrease in the level of subcutaneous and deep-sea water resources. In countries currently experiencing record droughts, legally normalized bans are being imposed on the use of water for watering lawns, washing cars, filling swimming pools, etc., and even restrictions are being placed on the use of water in the irrigation of agricultural fields. On the other hand, the Southern Hemisphere of the planet experiences record heat during the summer season of the planet's south and subtropical zones. Chile in South America in January-February 2024 is experiencing record heat, high temperatures causing numerous forest fires. The burning forests caused fires in many cities, towns and villages, where many citizens ran various tourist and other services and lost everything because of the fires. The scale of the fires that occurred in Chile caused the government to impose states of disaster and states of emergency in many regions of the country, in which many residential homes, business buildings, hotels, tourist resorts and other building infrastructure were socialized. The scale of damage caused by these fires is the largest in many years.

In view of the above, it is necessary to take systemic and integrated measures, which, on the one hand, should limit the scale of the progressive process of global warming and thus should result in reducing the scale of the negative effects of climate change. On the other hand, it is necessary to adequately protect land areas characterized by a high level of risk of periodic accumulation of large amounts of surface and subsurface water from flooding and waterlogging. As part of the improvement of flood risk management, it is necessary to create a system of retention reservoirs, in which the regulation of the level of accumulated water reserves should be correlated with the results of the long-term weather forecasts carried out and the weather and climate change forecast models developed on their basis. Big Data Analytics, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and other ICT information technologies of advanced multi-criteria data processing and Industry 4.0/5.0 can help in this regard. Besides, over-regulated and concreted riverbeds should be naturalized to allow controlled dumping of excess water into areas of natural restored greenery, restored forests and swamps. In addition, reservoirs should be created to collect rainwater for agricultural purposes, i.e. to irrigate areas used for agriculture during periods of drought. These issues should be key elements in the sustainable management of water resources and the management of the risk of floods, drought and other consequences of the increasing occurrence of situations of weather anomalies and climatic disasters.

I am conducting research on this issue. I have included the conclusions of my research in the following article:

IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PRINCIPLES OF SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY DEVELOPMENT AS A KEY ELEMENT OF THE PRO-ECOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE ECONOMY TOWARDS GREEN ECONOMY AND CIRCULAR ECONOMY

In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:

What do you think about this topic?

What is your opinion on this issue?

Please answer,

I invite everyone to join the discussion,

Thank you very much,

Best regards,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

It seems that Westerners do not have a good understanding about the future of good weather. They speak from a completely closed point of view. They say it's too late to do anything, the world will end. On the other hand, they promote the net zero vision of 2100, in which the effects of the climate have disappeared and only interpret climate change with bad risks, and this interpretation is not correct at all. Because, first of all, the nature itself and the earth and even the earth's atmosphere are in the process of being restored by the sun and the sunlight that shines on the earth, and we should not be so worried about the future. We humans can help the Earth and the Earth's atmosphere through social and scientific organizations. We humans can prevent climate change by preventing the hunting of animals. We humans are destroying the future of the earth by producing sewing machines and factories that generate smoke and we all know that what we are doing is wrong and even with wars and bloodshed we kill nature and destroy everything without thinking about it. Earth's nature and ecosystem changes are not climate changes. After all, why are we humans not aware of the future of the planet and do not understand that we all live in the same room. And everything we do under the roof of the earth's atmosphere will bounce back and cause natural disasters and natural hazards. You just have to think a little bit about what we humans are doing to our nature. Well, what do you think we should do for the future of the earth? . Do we think at all?

Dear Esteemed Professor/Researcher,

We extend a cordial invitation for the submission of your distinguished scientific research articles to be considered for publication in the upcoming edition of the International Journal of Disaster Risk Management, Vol. 6, No. 1.

Submission Link: [http://internationaljournalofdisasterriskmanagement.com/index.php/Vol1/about/submissions]

The International Journal of Disaster Risk Management, a rigorously peer-reviewed publication released semi-annually, encompasses a comprehensive spectrum of disaster studies, policy considerations, and effective management strategies. Our journal serves as a prominent platform, fostering collaboration among academics, policymakers, and practitioners, facilitating the dissemination of high-quality research and practices related to natural disasters, anthropogenic crises, and complex political emergencies worldwide.

The journal will cover all aspects of disaster risk management from a global perspective, including but not limited to:

Spanning interdisciplinary boundaries, our journal aims to promote communication, collaboration, and teamwork between various professions and disciplines. This collective effort strives to prevent or limit the adverse impacts of hazards (prevention, mitigation, and preparedness) within the broader context of sustainable development. By encouraging the exchange of ideas and experiences, we aim to reduce the risk of disasters and fortify community resilience in alignment with sustainable development goals and planetary boundaries.

Authors are kindly requested to submit their fully formatted papers for consideration. All submissions will undergo a meticulous blind peer-review process, evaluating originality, research content, correctness, relevance to the conference, and readability. To ensure a seamless submission process, we kindly urge you to thoroughly review the submission and formatting guidelines before submitting your paper.

Submit your paper at [http://internationaljournalofdisasterriskmanagement.com/index.php/Vol1/about/submissions]

We appreciate your valuable contributions to advancing disaster risk management knowledge, and we eagerly anticipate the opportunity to feature your work in our esteemed journal.

Kind Regards,

Prof. dr Vladimir M. Cvetković

Chief-in-Editor

Isn't it time to protect our homes from natural hazards?

In my opinion, bricks should not be used for the roofs of houses, and light materials such as Unolit should be used instead. So that bricks don't fall on people's heads during an earthquake, and also don't use thick straw in rural houses. Because it makes the roof of rural houses heavy and they are very unsafe and dangerous during floods and even earthquakes. Now, my question is, what are the solutions to deal with earthquakes and natural hazards? Isn't it time to use artificial intelligence in this field?

It seems that Westerners do not have a good understanding about the future of good weather. They speak from a completely closed point of view. They say it's too late to do anything, the world will end. On the other hand, they promote the net zero vision of 2100, in which the effects of the climate have disappeared and only interpret climate change with bad risks, and this interpretation is not correct at all. Because, first of all, the nature itself and the earth and even the earth's atmosphere are in the process of being restored by the sun and the sunlight that shines on the earth, and we should not be so worried about the future. We humans can help the Earth and the Earth's atmosphere through social and scientific organizations. We humans can prevent climate change by preventing the hunting of animals. We humans are destroying the future of the earth by producing sewing machines and factories that generate smoke and we all know that what we are doing is wrong and even with wars and bloodshed we kill nature and destroy everything without thinking about it. Earth's nature and ecosystem changes are not climate changes. After all, why are we humans not aware of the future of the planet and do not understand that we all live in the same room. And everything we do under the roof of the earth's atmosphere will bounce back and cause natural disasters and natural hazards. You just have to think a little bit about what we humans are doing to our nature. Well, what do you think we should do for the future of the earth? . Do we think at all?

Is climate change directly related to other natural hazards on the planet?

As you know, terrible and dangerous earthquakes happen every year, and perhaps the most dangerous one was in Turkey last year. Because he had built huge dams on the rivers of his country and the same factor, the water behind the dams had increased, and the intrusion of water on the Torres and Anti-Torres faults on the Ararat mountains in Turkey is considered the cause of the earthquake. . Because today, geologists and seismologists have come to the conclusion that water plays an important role in causing earthquakes, and the penetration of water into the fault and its subduction and subduction layers is the cause of artificial and induced earthquakes, and this experiment in the region Texas, United States of America, it has been proven that by injecting water and water and salt solution in the oil region of Texas, America, earthquakes of magnitude 3 and 5 have been caused. We will release the energy inside the earth. It means that humans themselves will play a role in causing earthquakes. Now the question is that we humans, with this knowledge, why are we storing water on the faults again when there is a possibility of earthquakes in the future? Is it not possible to inject water inside the faults with calculated planning so that the internal pressure of the faults is released slowly and free people from the danger of earthquakes? Isn't it time to get rid of the dangers of earthquakes?

Hello everyone,

Is anyone familiar with the manuscript format for submission to the Hatural Hazards Journal? I have followed the journal guidelines (https://www.springer.com/journal/11069/submission-guidelines), but the editor still comments: Please format the References EXACTLY as specified in the Natural Hazard formatting guidelines

Regards,

Budi H Santosa

The thawing of permafrost, which has been present for thousands and millions of years in areas near the Arctic Circle, mainly in the Arctic, caused by the accelerating process of global warming, will result in the release into the atmosphere of thousands and possibly millions of tonnes of hitherto frozen methane, a gas that is many times more greenhouse-generating than CO2, which will result in a significant acceleration of the already rapid process of global warming. However, this is not the only very dangerous effect for human civilisation and for the state of the planet's biosphere of the progressing process of global warming, a process which has been taking place since the first industrial revolution, i.e. since the 18th century. Among the significant negative consequences of the increasingly rapid global warming process triggered by the industrial revolution based on the dirty energy of burning fossil fuels is the increase in the risk of a future pandemic caused by viruses emerging from the thawing of the permafrost in areas near the planet's Arctic Circle. These viruses emerged and were frozen many thousands and perhaps millions of years ago, i.e. when there was not yet a modern species of homo sapiens on planet Earth. Therefore, humans may not be immune at all to these strains of different types of viruses that functioned on the planet many thousands of years ago. In addition, the existence of many species of both wild animals and farmed livestock may also be threatened if thawing viruses from many thousands of years ago prove to be completely unfamiliar to the immune systems of said animals. According to CNN media reports, there are virological research laboratories currently working on revived viruses taken from thawing permafrost. These revived viruses are referred to in the media as "zombie viruses". In addition, high summer temperatures have thawed the corpses of people who died and were buried in cemeteries many years ago, as well as animals, from whose thawing bodies pathogenic strains of viruses and bacteria have emerged. The thawing of the permafrost in recent years, for example, has been identified as a major source factor in the occurrence of the anthrax epidemic in Siberia, because the high temperatures experienced in Siberia for the first time in many thousands of years allow viruses and bacteria to be released from human cemeteries and animal corpses, i.e. micro-organisms that functioned thousands of years ago and which may be particularly dangerous to humans and animals living on the planet today.

In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:

What is your opinion on this subject?

Please respond,

I invite you all to discuss,

Thank you very much,

Best regards,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

Dear RG Users,

I am looking to simulate the Multi Natural Hazards (like Landslides, debris flow floods) their interaction/ Cascading affect on each other .

Do you know any available software for this purpose?

It can be commercial or open source.

Looking forward for your answers.

Best Regards

Engr Awais

I am looking for articles about using GIS for the mapping of natural risks on archaeological sites.

It will be great if you can help me with the links of free satellite imagery for natural hazard assessment

Donald Trump's withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement threatens its future. Now, whispers of Brazil's withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement is heard. Seems Brazil's withdrawal influenced by the withdrawal of the USA. Under this situation, will other countries also withdraw from the agreement?

In your opinion, how will the withdrawal of these countries affect the future of this agreement?

I want to start a research about cultural rights and the environment. It is related to my last work "Preventing and pursuing the destruction of Shiite holy sites according to the case of Bamiyan's Buddhas". I consider the aspects of the relation between cultural rights, eg. cultural sites, and the environment. How can we promote our protection of cultural sites against damage? What are the damages that threat cultural sites? Is there any action that the states should fulfil? What about native people? ...

I've read numerous papers about socioeconomic vulnerability assessment and I found out that most of the papers focused on natural hazards and disease(such as COVID-19 pandemic). I can't find anything related specifically to water pollution. Therefore, what are the potential parameters/indicators for adaptive capacity for socioeconomic vulnerability assessment of water pollution?

Based on the article, the indicators are risk awareness, early warning capacity, regulation control and emergency response.

In this article, education, access to mobile connection, income, access to water facilities and health awareness camp were as indicators.

However, the indicators used in this article were in demographic domain such as population growth rate, population density and percentage of illiterate households.

I think the biggest challenge is finding a way on how to quantify it. Another obstacle is the availability of socioeconomic data of appropriate geographical coverage.

Movement of barchan dunes cause hazards on urban roads and agriculture.

Hi, I would like to know where can I get historic global/national (preferably USA) level time-series data for the following (preferably gridded data)?

Flood, Drought, Max temperature, Min temperature, Hurricane, Tornado, Earthquake, Wind, Severe storm, Winter days, Wildfire, Precipitation, Sea level rise, Storm surge, Fog, Hail, Lightning, Landslide, Volcano, Tsunami

Hi, In my city i have seen a discussion among volcanic hazard researchers (Colombian Geologic Service and the local University), the central subject is the quality on the accuracy of volcanic hazard methodologys (i.e. deterministic method vs probabilistic method), i´d like to learn more about works that compare these two methods with observed events. Please, could anybody share me papers or books about the subject? Thanks a lot.

The term Geology [gē: ‘earth’; logia: ‘study of’, ‘discourse’] encompasses various aspects of the study of solid Earth. It includes: study of rocks of which the Earth is composed, and the processes by which they change over the period of time; study of plant and animal fossils indicating the kind of life forms that existed in the past; study of energy resources, e.g. coal, oil and variety of minerals; and also study of environment, climate change, and natural hazards like landslides, volcanoes, earthquakes, and floods.

However, with the man’s stepping over Moon followed by study of various aspects of Moon rocks, the term “Geology of Moon” or “Lunar Geology” came into use. The terms Selenology and Selenography are also used for some kind of studies on Moon. Whether the time has now to coin a new term for the study of Moon rocks?

Developing states as well as developed states facing a problem of environmental hazards like floods, cyclones, tsunami etc due to the global environmental changes. Mostly affected are the under-developed states due to lack of resources. South Asian states especially Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Maldives, Bhutan, etc. are facing serious problems of floods. I am seeking literature regarding flood hazards in Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh.

Natural hazards risk

Tsunami is one of the natural hazard, which can impact places thousands of km away from Seismic Source. I am interested in knowing presence of Tsunamigenic source in Red-Sea, Gulf of Aden and Arabian Sea (other than Makran) and their maximum magnitude ? Can Red-Sea and Gulf of Aden has potential source to generate a local Tsunami ?

Looking for experts response.

I am working on modelling the social dynamics and human responses during flash floods and forecasting the socio-economic impacts of flash floods.

Could you please share any relevant scientific papers/reports or any other related resources?

Thank you.

Please provide reference models and frameworks for agent-based modeling being used in social dynamics during disaster emergencies.

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I am interested to participate and organize a summer school in Uzbekistan on natural hazards, landscape ecology, soil sciences and foresrty.

There is little irritation of what a 'natural hazard' is, even if we admit that many 'natural hazards' are the result of human activity (e.g. often flooding is the result of deforestation by humans; drought and desertification the result of human land use changes, over grazing etc.

But is there something we can call 'natural disaster'? A disaster is an event of society, not an event of nature.

Disaster Risk Reduction is the effort to prevent that 'natural' hazards turn into disasters. If this effort fails then it is difficult to talk of 'natural disaster' as it is society, human that suffer damages, injuries and loss of life.

Isn't the expression 'natural disaster' not even misleading giving the impression that a disaster is a natural event, an act of god so to say and as such unavoidable. Indeed, however, as highlighted earlier, it is an event of society and become often disastrous as society is not well prepared to face the powers of natural hazards.

What do you think????

 Can you send me some new papers about landslide hazard zonation (LHZ)?

Hello dear sir, I am interested in your project. I have been working with the coastal environment since 2014. I am preparing a PhD PhD thesis on the vulnerability of the coastal environment in Cameroon. I am interested in climate change issues and natural hazards.

Given the fact that the resilience concept in Disaster Science is new, how can we define it in a way that it is differentiated from the typical vulnerability concept? What (or what type of) indicators one should utilize to assess them both?

How intensity and frequency of natural hazards is going to change in future??

What are the number of days between receipt of a manuscript at the editorial office and the editorial decision to accept or reject for peer review process?

I'm specifically looking at the following journals:

I would greatly appreciate it if you kindly share your experience.

Best Regards .

There have been arguments that just like sustainability, the resilience within the systems (here talking about the communities as a system) can not be measured but improved as it is a continuous process. So I am thinking if it is reasonable to measure it on the basis of different components shaping that resilience.

Moreover, what is the role of Risk-Assessments in resilience management? can resilience be managed without considering the risks or any external/internal shocks?

Regards

I am looking for a single term that can be used to describe both "trends and patterns" of natural phenomenon such as natural hazards (storms, floods, rainfall, tropical cyclones etc.)

On the basis of the calculations performed on the basis of the PFO-CFO Theory, we arrived at the conclusion that all widely-discussed mass extinctions were caused by quite definite solar events. There were no principal changes in nature after the series of the past extinctions, and, thus, it can be expected that the events that occurred multiply in the past, will occur hereafter. Do you think that people should prepare the ways for minimization of possible future harmful effects of solar phenomena?

Disaster Risk Reduction has become a central agenda in many parts of the world. This is due to increases in intensity and frequency of extreme events like cyclone/typhoon, heavy rainfall, earthquake, tsunami etc. Ecosystems are the close entities of causes to consequences of these events. However, a system approach that relates ecology and ecosystem services of a particular region are not significantly addressed. Do you think so, and why? How to address these?

Drought has been generally defined as a recurring extreme climate event that occurs NATURALLY... Given the current anthropocene, one may ask if drought is still strictly a natural hazard?

Does anyone want to become a collaborator of an interdisciplinary group to perform research within the project: Systems for Sustainable a Planet? Are you interested or experienced in any of the following global issues?

I am looking for motivated individuals who would like to contribute to the greater purposes and goals of the project in any way they can. We can use ResearchGate.com and e-mail to communicate and combine our ideas, wherever you are in the world, and with whatever free time you have available outside of your current jobs and busy schedules.

Reply with "yes", a little bit about yourself, ideas for collaboration.

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Thanks for looking! I hope you'll join us.

I need any handbook for "GIS systems in engineering geology" and/or "GIS systems in natural hazard assessment" and unfortunetelly.

If anyone can help me, I'll be very thankful.

There are many different seismicity levels in the world. it is obvious that France is less exposed to earthquakes than Japan, China, Turkey, Iran, Italy or California, What is your level of fear of this natural hazard in your particular area? The results of analysis of answers of this question (if they are numerous and representative enough) may help to understand the effect of past experience in lowering or enhancing the level of fear.. thank you for your contribution.

Measuring millimetric precursory deformations of large crustal areas on earth surface by remote sensing techniques ( InSAR) is already a well established reality. The best available way now, as an Early Warning System against earthquakes and subsidence, landslides related hazards?

Dear Colleagues,

we would like to invite you to submit an abstract for the interdisciplinary session “Natural hazards and climate impacts in forest areas” at the next EGU Assembly (Wien - Austria, 8-13 April 2018), organized by NhET (Natural hazard Early career scientists Team).

This session aims at collecting experiences from researchers working on natural hazard having forests as one of their targets. The session welcome abstracts addressing any natural hazards, going also beyond forest fires.

Contributions should be submitted on the website of EGU general Assembly 2016: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2018/abstractsubmission/27717

Contributions  are solicited from all scientists, and especially from Early Career Scientists.

Please note two important deadlines:

- December 1, 2017: Deadline for Support Applications (abstract should be submitted);

- January 10, 2018 (13:00 CET): Deadline for Abstract submission.

We kindly ask everybody to apologize us for cross-posting; on the other hand, if you have questions or queries, just contact us!

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Jonathan Rizzi, Luigi Lombardo and Svein Solberg

I am looking into people's knowledge to deal with natural hazards in the Pacific Island region. I have come across some materials, but I assume that there is much out there, possibly buried in ethnographies, where the titles give little indiction that it contains such materials......... One particular interest is about cultural knowldege about hazards and its application in the material culture (e.g. house construction, agriculture, food preservation and food security, etc....

I thank you very much for your tips

Dear colleagues (scientists, engineers and communicators),

in October (~3rd week), the Early Career Scientist representatives of the Natural Hazards division of European Geoscience Union (called NhET) will launch the EGU Natural Hazards blog online.

I will be the editor of the blog together with other scientists/friends that will equally contribute to the maintanance and development of the blog itself.

We plan to post online interviews and other elements that would open up natural hazard concepts to a very wide audience.

This is why I am writing here.

Would you be interested in being interviewed for the EGU blog? The topic needs to fit within Natural Hazards of course but as almost everything can fit in this profile, I would like to hear your ideas on the matter. How could you contribute? What topic are you familiar with and can we make the effort to discuss it keeping in mind a communicative purpose?

The NhET plans to release a post on a biweekly basis. This can be either a review of an important article (not authored by the interviewee) in a given branch of science or a discussion of the state of the art of a given scientific topic or technique.

The target length of the interview must be 500 < words < 1000.

Let me know your ideas and potential availability.

Thanks!

I am exploring nature-culture linkages of cultural landscapes involving volcanoes and its risk management.

what are indigenous techniques to mitigate landslides in changing climate ?

A catastrophy is an anthropic interpretation of an event which categorises it as essentially destructive.  Naturally occurring 'catastrophes' however are clearly responsible for, in fact are an essential element of evolution in both biological and social contexts.  

Major bio-evolutionary changes have been facilitated by natural 'catastrophes' such as trap volcanos or comet/meteorite impacts.  Similarly societal evolution has been precipated by similar events such as a comet strike around 12,800 years ago.

Does catastrophism provide a mechanism for understanding and as such is it a science in its own right? 

Kindly share your paper  'Ón increasing monsoon rainstorm in India' published in Natural hazard  Vol 85(3)

More and more the AF and GCF are funding sources that finance important climate change adaptation interventions in the developing world. It is important that the academia contributes in assessing the impact of these funds and interventions on the most vulnerable. 

How can I find open source model of landslides related disasters. I want learn something about the process of  developing such kind of model including statistical or physical based models.

I am interested to use InSAR data and techniques in the Himalaya and Karakoram Ranges to identify geohazards like landslides and to make further hazard assessment, analysis to mitigate the georisk. Thanks for valuable comments and suggestions.

Regards

IJAZ

Dear colleagues,

I face the following issue when I try to import the ASTER GDEM data (ascii format) in the Flow-R environment (http://www.flow-r.org/home):

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My ASTER GDEM data with the heading is shown below:

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I would like to generate the susceptibilty map for Mount Sinabung, Indonesia. Attached file is the ASTER GDEM data (ascii format) of my study area.

Can anyone help me? Any technical assistance is appreciated.

Hi, 

Could anyone can provide me some materials or guidelines that allow me to understand how to develop a new stage-damage function for flood event. 

Are there any publications on natural hazards in Central Asia available which are not published by UN institutions ? Does somebody have some detailed information on landslides and mudflow impacts ? And maybe some official document on the impacts of climate change in Central Asia ?

Dear all, 

I have few SAR imagery which are non-peak flood time imagery. Mostly are 2 or 3 days from the peak time. So, how do I solve this problem.

Thanks.  

The tool or the software should be "opne source" that I can download from the web.

I am working in the field of landslides along a ghat road section with 70 hairpin bends. Need suggestions, how can I relate the road density with landslide occurrences.

There have been debates about the applicability of core flood test results to reservoir conditions. It is clear that a small plug can not represent a giant reservoir. However, core flooding is frequently applied as a conventional method to simulate flow through porous media. Yet, many tests are performed at temperature and pressure below reservoir conditions.

I am seeking for a method(s) to extend the costly, time consuming core flood test to reservoir conditions. 

Hello,

I guess we have all heard about the ongoing tragic and worsening situation in Greece since 2008 for a large fraction of the population there and for refugees from Europe and elsewhere who ended up in Greece.

I am no socio-economic or political  expert but I gather that the number of people living in  precarity has soared there. I have certainly met benevolent social workers  who shared stories of despair that are hard to forget.

Greece is afflicted by a range of natural hazards and risks of disasters. It has a recurrent and documented history of such disasters.

I am wondering to what extent it is still possible for Greek scientists and/or the international community to suitably anticipate and monitor for those potential disasters and to suitably prepare for a disaster response, considering the ongoing and arguably worsening (?) situation in Greece ?

I am thinking about large forest fires (and eg. resulting biodiversity loss and atmospheric pollution), severe thunderstorms, land erosion, flash floods and mud flows on the one hand, and of tectonic earthquake and volcanic eruption hazards that may also lead to a tsunami risk in the Mediterranean on the other hand.

With the situation in Greece, aren't the vulnerabilities and the risks of impacts from such potential disasters much greater in Greece, and for some of these hazards for the European-Mediterranean regions ?

Has anyone studied how vulnerability of the Greece population to such eventualities may have increased since 2008 ?

Has anyone studied how the risks themselves for a given disaster scenario may have increased considering increased vulnerabilities and other changes in the structure of the Greece socio-politico-economic systems ?

Tectonic earthquakes from the Aegean arc submarine faults in Greece could trigger a tsunami affecting the Mediterranean region.

Can the adequate monitoring and disaster preparedness efforts still be pursued at the present time ?

And if not, what may be the wide-ranging impacts ?

The unmonitored active shallow-marine Kolumbos Bank Volcano (6km to NE of Santorini volcano) erupted explosively in 1650 AD. If it erupts again in a similar way, what may be the risk of an impact for international air traffic similar to that which related to the Eyjafjallajokull 2010 eruptions ?

What may be the tsunami risks in the Mediterranean  if the Kolumbos Bank volcano erupted explosively again ?

So to sum up, I am wondering if socio-economic-political changes in Greece since 2008 have affected vulnerability, resilience and risks for a diversity of disaster scenarios ? And also who may have studied aspects of this ?

I am also wondering to what extent scientists in Greece and elsewhere can continue to adequately monitor for, anticipate, research, sensitize for, , and generally prepare for such disasters occurring in Greece ?

And if it is the case that  the Greek scientists have difficulties continuing their work (?), to what extent the European Commission and international negociators on debt alleviation in Greece may have taken such considerations into account ?

Is this not the sort of situation making the ground much more fertile for much-enhanced impacts of geo-disasters ? Including for some that may affect much of Europe or the  Mediterranean Countries ?

Anyhow, a whole series of inter-related questions there.

I am wondering what colleagues think of all this and if some of you may have elements of answer to some of these questions ?

Many thanks in advance for any insights.

With best wishes and kindest regards,

Gerald

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