floods / flooding
King Tide floods in Tuvalu
... experiencing flooding in places. They call those floods pulling the Pacific Ocean farther ashore than normal “King Tide”, a term connected to threaten their lives and ...
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Can natural disasters impact children growth paths? Evidence from Mozambique 2000 floods
... major floods on children’s health outcomes. This particular flooding episode was caused by a combination of heavy tropical rainfalls and cyclone Eline taking place in early ...
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Floods in southern Portugal: their physical and human causes, impacts and human response
... Abstract. Floods have been the most deadly natural disasters in Portugal during the last century, followed by ...These floods are caused by heavy rains associated with a westerly zonal circulation that may ...
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The 20 February 2010 Madeira flash-floods: synoptic analysis and extreme rainfall assessment
... of an intense precipitation episode (the “paroxysm”, in 20 February 2010), but also controlled by antecedent and longer duration rainfalls, providing crucial pre-existing con- ditions to the disaster (the anomalous wet ...
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Integrated Storm Water Management – An Approach for Urban Flooding In Hyderabad, India
... to floods. Irrespective of whether urban floods are part of larger riverine floods or result from inadequate drainage capacities, the damage potential of floods in cities is extraordinarily ...
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Use of several indices of event severity for floods and droughts
... river flooding have usually used a much shorter base time-step than one-month and, because of this, probabilities and return periods are evaluated on a different ...
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IP Traceback for Flooding Attacks on Internet Threat Monitors (ITM ) Using Honeypots
... TCP floods: A stream of packets with various flags (SYN,RST, ACK) are sent to the victim ...ACK floods can cause disruption at the nodes corresponding to the host addresses of the floods as ...ACK ...
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Floods and social vulnerability: study on the Xingu river in Altamira/PA
... in floods quota (ANA Resolution 48, February 28, ...seasonal flooding on riverside communities are the main social consequences caused by the alteration of the hydrological regime (reduced flow in one area ...
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Precipitation thresholds for triggering floods in the Corgo Basin, Portugal
... of floods and precipitation events exceeding the minimum threshold denotes a relatively low probability of successful ...of flooding events in the floods database, which only include floods ...
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The dynamics of cultivation and floods in arable lands of central Argentina
... than 100 m a.s.l. on the flooding lowlands of NW Buenos Aires province. The Quinto river mainstream flows into the Amarga lagoon (Carignano, 1999). A broad-scale NE- SW spill-over area (of around 12.3 million ...
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Economic motivation of households to undertake private precautionary measures against floods
... Buildings without cellars are generally less expensive to construct and are less affected by flooding, particularly in cases where only low water levels occur, e.g., during ground- water flooding (Kreibich ...
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Photosynthesis and Growth of Copaiba Seedlings Subjected to Soil Flooding
... of flooding, the plants were six months old and approximately 20cm ...high. Flooding was achieved by capping the two side holes of the lower end of the PVC pipes and filling them with water to 20mm above ...
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Adaptive cycles of floodplain vegetation response to flooding and drying
... approximately 2 months and a long wet phase of 6 months (Fig. 3a). Event 4 was very different from the other events and was characterised by a short wetting and wet phase of 1 month and an extended drying phase of over 6 ...
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Rainstorms able to induce flash floods in a Mediterranean-climate region (Calabria, southern Italy)
... Fig. 9. Spatial features of some significant heavy rainstorms. Numbers in each map are re- ferred to Table 2. Brown points indicates the rain gauges in which the rainfall events used for determining the HRE are recorded. ...
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Damages caused by floods and flash-floods upon critical infrastructures. Case study: Maramureş county (Romania)
... In Maramureş county, during the study period, no less than 6.7 km of national r oads, 26. 03 k m of cou nt y r oads and 44 2 k m of v illage r oads w er e dam aged by floods and flash- floods. The ...
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Floods in Southeast Asia: A health priority
... O ut of all the natural disasters, loods are the most common in both developed and developing countries, accounting for approximately 40% of all natural disasters [1,2]. Flooding has severe implications on human ...
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Flooding tolerance and cell wall alterations in maize mesocotyl during hypoxia (1)
... One of the problems with maize cultivated in soils with intermittent period of water excess is that this crop is sensitive to flooding conditions due to the lack of resistance mechanisms (Drew, 1997). In Brazil, ...
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ECOPHYSIOLOGY OF THE TREE SPECIES Cedrela fissilis Vell. (Meliaceae) SUBMITTED TO FLOODING
... However, flooded plants of C. fissilis showed some limitation to leaf gas exchange that affected photosynthesis and growth. A decrease up to 50% in stomatal conductance in plants from FS treatment, indicated that under ...
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Estrutura da superfície livre de um filme líquido escoando sobre uma placa plana vertical: fenômeno do Flooding
... RESUMO: O fenômeno do fíooding, que ocorre num escoamento vertical de um filme líquido, sujeito a uma vazão de gás a contra-corrente, tem sido estudado a 40 anos. A sua compreensão é muito importante para se resolver ...
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Estimation of Flow Resistance Due to Embankments and Spur Dikes during Floods
... The embankments and the spur dikes are the standard civil engineering structure; their hydraulics has been explored during floods. This work presents a physical based analysis of submerged flow over embankment ...
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