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Displaying 15 of about 393 resultsTo help disseminate public warnings, alerting authorities have long relied on commercial media, such as newswires, broadcast radio and television. Television stations insert "crawl text" with the warning message; radio stations insert a recording. This public-private collaboration has required huge investments in specialized technology.
Now people are…
Droughts are complicated, often more human-caused than precipitation-caused (Wilhite and Glantz, 1985). Nonetheless, precipitation and water certainly have a role to play, by definition.
In discussions of the ongoing California drought, much of the emphasis is on industrial and agricultural water use. A few commentators have the knee-jerk reaction that…
We often talk about communication and Early Warning Systems (EWS), the development of which normally moves in a top-down manner, from global to regional to national. However, what could we learn if we were to reverse engineer this process? Could we enhance sustainability and create a people-centred process developed in partnership with communities to br…
Description: Prolonged drought can result in economic, environmental, and health-related impacts. In this webinar, participants will learn how to monitor drought conditions and assess impacts on the ecosystem using precipitation, soil moisture, and vegetation data. The training will provide an overview of drought classification, as well as an in…
This publication describes the experience of the German Red Cross in Bangladesh with the development and application of danger levels, thresholds and triggers in the context of Forecast based Financing (FbF). It highlights the advantages of FbF for disaster risk management practitioners and recommends the following four-step mechanism to trigger action:…
This report of a Post-Incident Assessment conducted by KPMG LLP for the Alberta Emergency Management Agency (AEMA), provides a review of the Government of Alberta’s support to stakeholders, emergency social services, and community evacuations during the May 2016 Wood Buffalo Wildfire (also known as the Horse River Wildfire) and its aftermath.
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Risks of malaria epidemics in relation to El Niño and Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events have been mapped and studied at global level. In India, where malaria is a major public health problem, no such effort has been undertaken that inter-relates El Niño, Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall (ISMR) and malaria. The present study has been undertake…
This paper analyzes annual spending by private and public organizations on commercial weather and climate information in more than 180 countries by industrial sector, region, per capita, and percentage of GDP (gross domestic product) and against the country’s climate and extreme weather risk.
Findings show there are major imbalances regarding acce…
This paper describes the performance of the Bureau of Meteorology’s heatwave forecasting service in Queensland, Australia. A heatwave climatology for Queensland in terms of the excess heat factor (EHF) is presented across a 1958-2011 base period that was used in the construction of the EHF dataset. This climatology is compared with a recent period, 1986…
This report features a review of 15 countries affected by the 2015-16 El Niño and explores lessons learned. The impacts of El Niño appear in the form of droughts, floods and fires. These adverse impacts tend to recur and can, therefore be anticipated, planned for, and mitigated, if not avoided altogether.
The report argues that governments sh…
Climate variability is shown to be an important driver of spatial and temporal changes in hydrometereological variables in Europe. However, the influence of climate variability on flood damage has received little attention. The researchers investigated the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), and the East Atlan…
This study of humanitarian preparedness measures focuses on the 2015–2016 El Niño event in five countries: Zambia, Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Malawi. Chapters 2–6 of this study detail country-level measures to prepare for potential El Niño related impacts. Chapter 7, addresses the challenges to and benefits of early action as experienced by two organ…
This publication reviews the results of past research and considers new possibilities for realizing more effective alert and warning systems in the U.S. It explores how a more effective national alert and warning system might be created and some of the gaps in present knowledge, and sets forth a research agenda to advance the country…
This brief summarises the results of a project from 2014-2017 that examined evidence-based strategies that motivate appropriate action and increase informed decision-making during the response and early recovery phases of natural disasters. The project utilised community focus groups to test emergency warning message comprehension and compliance, c…
This report covers the development of a flood forecasting system for the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers, along with an evaluation of the sources of forecasting predictability. Many of the findings also have implictions for the surrounding South Asia region. The aspects covered include issues related to input data availability, quality, and utility;…