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Gerald Albert Baeribameng Yiran, Martin Oteng Ababio, Albert Nii Moe Allotey, Richard Yao Kofie and Lasse Møller-Jensen
Climate change seriously threatens human systems, properties and livelihoods. Global projections suggest a continuous increase in the frequency and severity of weather events, with severe outcomes. Although the trends and impacts are highly variable depe...
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Shuhan Xu, Feng Wang, Yuling Ding, Wenchao Liu, Yiyu Lan, Qingqing Jia, Peng Sun and Zhimin Sha
Rice?duckweed coculturing as an advanced technique has proven effective for weed control. However, the complex environmental interactions underlying its effectiveness remain unclear. In this study, a controlled pot experiment was conducted to isolate the...
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Kevin J. Wienhold, Dongfeng Li, Wenzhao Li and Zheng N. Fang
The identification of flood hazards during emerging public safety crises such as hurricanes or flash floods is an invaluable tool for first responders and managers yet remains out of reach in any comprehensive sense when using traditional remote-sensing ...
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Yohei Ueno, Taichi Tebakari, Keigo Noda and Kazuhiro Yoshimi
In this study, we examine the possibility of proactive floodwater diversion to fields via backwater in numerical experiments using multiple elevation data products with different spatial resolutions and explore the optimal timing of water diversion from ...
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Petri Valanto
The survivability of a damaged RoPax ship in the case of a flooding accident can be critical, as these ships have a tendency for a rapid capsize. Various simulation tools are presently in use to study the behavior of damaged RoPax and cruise ships. Recen...
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Fong-Zuo Lee, Jihn-Sung Lai and Tetsuya Sumi
Sustainable water resources of reservoirs depend on preserving the valuable storage capacity. Sediment management is a crucial task in reservoir operations. Extreme floods caused by typhoon events have brought a massive amount of sediments from the water...
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Ingrid Luffman and Daniel Connors
Volunteered Geographic Information, data contributed by community scientists, is an increasingly popular tool to collect scientific data, involve the community in scientific research, and provide information and education about a prominent issue. Johnson...
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Tetsuhiro Yuura, Hirotada Hashimoto and Akihiko Matsuda
Free-running model tests were conducted using a scaled model of a large cruise ship with a damaged compartment, to investigate the effects of damage opening and floodwater on the manoeuvring performance in calm water and regular and irregular head waves....
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Chang Liu, Yan Jia, Yaprak Onat, Alejandro Cifuentes-Lorenzen, Amin Ilia, Grant McCardell, Todd Fake and James O?Donnell
Accurately estimating the probability of storm surge occurrences is necessary for flood risk assessments. This research models Long Island Sound using a coupled coastal circulation and wave model (FVCOM-SWAVE) to hindcast the 44 highest storms between 19...
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Maria Acanfora, Ermina Begovic and Fabio De Luca
Ship accidents that entail flooding may lead to disastrous consequences which could be avoided or mitigated based on the knowledge of damaged ship dynamics. The dynamic behaviour of a damaged hull is a complex phenomenon involving the interaction of the ...
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