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Displaying 15 of about 2871 results… disasters i.e. floods, glacial melting, drought, and heat waves. The plan includes: situation analysis heat index background to heat waves in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa heatwave early warning & coordination heat wave declaration heat wave surveillance & coordination roles …
… Assessing geographic variability in heat wave vulnerability forms the basis for planning appropriate … Given several recent deadly heatwaves in India, heat is increasingly being recognized as a public health …
… and economic impacts of the extreme drought and heat wave that hit Europe in the summer of 2003, that had adverse … billion Euros. This Early Warning brief concludes that the heat wave that hit Europe in the summer of 2003 could be seen …
SOP for heatwave has been developed by the District Disaster Management Authority of Gorakhpur with technical support from UNICEF, UP. In SOP, the roles & responsibilities of all the departmental stakeholders have been clearly identified & comprehensively described for the mitigation of heatwave. Apart from the above measures, SOP describes the…
… Project on climate attribution science following the heat wave in Phalodi, Rajasthan, India, 19 May 2016. An analysis … human-induced climate change had contributed to the heat wave event and to inform decision-makers whether such …
… residents with information about health risks before a heat wave occurs, providing valuable time to take appropriate … and duration of extreme ambient temperature, especially heat waves. There is worldwide evidence that extreme high …
… This study examines the temporal structure of heat waves having widely varying substantial human impact, … days interspersed with cooler breaks. In contrast, many heat wave definitions employed by meteorologists include a …
… These guidelines aim to facilitate the formation of heat wave action plans among disaster risk reduction stakeholders in India, by providing insights into heat-related illness and the necessary mitigative and …
… There has been an increasing trend of heat-wave in India over the past several years whereby several … affected. The increased occurrences and severity of heat-waves is a wake-up call for all agencies to take …
… the critical first few months of the pandemic: the first wave. The issue includes articles on: Developing a … the critical first few months of the pandemic: the first wave. The issue includes articles on: Developing a …
… In the present study, the methodology is adapted for heat waves and is applied in the city of Arad, Romania. Based … as well as a risk matrix for the night- and the daytime. A heat wave risk map was then developed that can be used by the …
… This issue discusses the second wave of the COVID -19 pandemic hit India in the beginning of … of South Asia disasters.net is titled ‘COVID- 19 Second Wave and Indian Cities’ and highlights how India’s cities were impacted from the second wave of the pandemic. In doing so, there are also …
… to which S2S climate forecasts could be incorporated into heat-health action plans, to support timely public health decision-making ahead of imminent heat wave events in Europe. Heat waves have been responsible for …
… tsunami and storms, the creation of habitable space and wave energy conversion into sustainable electricity. In this … document, the author proposes a dual purpose breakwater-wave energy converter (BWEC), which acts as breakwater during … a year, and under normal weather conditions can convert wave energy to electricity. This document is an input paper …