China is playing an increasing role in global climate change mitigation, and local authorities
need more city-specific information on the emissions trends and patterns when designing …

Working Group I (WGI) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assesses
the current evidence on the physical science of climate change, evaluating knowledge …

Heat-related mortality has been identified as one of the key climate extremes posing a risk to
human health. Current research focuses largely on how heat mortality increases with mean …

Assessing long-term trends in flood losses and attributing them to climatic and
socioeconomic changes requires comprehensive and systematic collection of historical …

Seasonal melting of glaciers and snow from the western Third Pole (TP) plays important role
in sustaining water supplies downstream. However, the future water availability of the …

Critical infrastructures are more exposed than ever to natural hazards in a changing climate.
To understand and manage risk, failure cascades across large, real-world infrastructure …

Urban neighbourhood layouts affect the flood intrusion rate towards residential buildings
through various kinds of damaged openings (doors, windows, gates and shafts) and the …

Abstract Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) play a significant role in hydraulic modeling and
flood risk management. This study initially investigated the effect of Unmanned Aerial …

Long-term trends in flood losses are regulated by multiple factors including climate variation,
demographic dynamics, economic growth, land-use transitions, reservoir construction and …

Fluvial floods are destructive hazards that affect millions of people worldwide each year.
Forecasting flood events and their potential impacts therefore is crucial for disaster …