Global warming has been changing the planet's climate pattern, leading to increasing
frequency, intensity and duration of extreme weather events and natural disasters. These …

Reliable and complete data held in disaster databases are imperative to inform effective
disaster preparedness and mitigation policies. Nonetheless, disaster databases are highly …

Global warming is expected to change the regime of extreme precipitation. Physical laws
translate increasing atmospheric heat into increasing atmospheric water content that drives …

Forecasting and early warning systems are important investments to protect lives, properties,
and livelihood. While early warning systems are frequently used to predict the magnitude …

Executive summary Left unmitigated, climate change poses a catastrophic risk to human
health, requiring an urgent and concerted response from every country. As the home to one …

A leading challenge in measuring social vulnerability to hazards is for output metrics to
better reflect the context in which vulnerability occurs. Through a meta-analysis of 67 flood …

Flood hazard assessment is a fundamental step in flood risk map**. Quantitative
assessment requires hydrodynamic modelling of the flooding process in order to calculate …

Floods are among the devastating natural disasters that occurred very frequently in arid
regions during the last decades. Accurate assessment of the flood susceptibility map** is …

The impacts of flooding are expected to rise due to population increases, economic growth
and climate change. Hence, understanding the physical and spatiotemporal characteristics …

Globally, flooding is the leading cause of natural disaster related deaths, especially in
Bangladesh where approximately one third of national area gets flooded annually by …