GermanyFlash floods and debris flows are iconic hazards in mountainous regions with steep relief, high rainfall intensities, rapid snowmelt events, and abundant sediments. The cuesta landscapes of southern Germany hardly come to mind when dealing with such hazards. A series of heavy rainstorms ...
The rains are proof to climate-change deniers that recent fires, droughts and floods are simply part of the natural cycle. They point with delight to the bush springing back to life. Yet while important habitats depend upon fire to regenerate, this summer’s fires, exceptionally, destroyed ...
Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), Government of India, Thiruvananthapuram, for providing support and continuous encouragement to complete this successful research work. The corresponding author is thankful to Dr. K. Maya, Scientist – G, Group Head, BGG, NCESS, for continuous...
[Weather extremes: What’s causing the heatwave in Ireland, deadly floods in Europe?Opens in new window] Walid was nominated by the Dutch service, which had initially wanted to use Wolfgang, the released emails show. “The list is diverse enough but all [our] ...
several regionally representative high river discharge events, with documentary evidence attesting to a number of major floods in the period 1784–1785 CE66, with limited model results corroborating wet conditions36(Fig.4). Figure 4 Comparison of Ti-derived precipitation at Sureanu (d) with river ...
Local sea level rise poses many threats to the people living in the coastal areas in the form of coastal floods, high tides, seawater intrusion in coastal groundwater aquifers and wetlands (Masciopinto and Liso, 2016). Different models were employed by Goharnejad et al. (2013) to measure th...
3.2. Southern Germany: Early Awareness and Institutionalization of Climate Change Impacts The Southern German states of Baden-Württemberg (BW) and Bavaria (BY) witnessed several major flood events with devastating losses: Rhine floods in 1993 and 1995; Alpine floods in 2000 and 2005; and Danube...
In the literature, monitoring the changes in river response and wetland response to flash floods in a desert environment is very rare work. Our motivation for this study is that this research represents a chance to study the response of this desertic ecosystem to the effect of this very brief...
DNA was extracted using the DNeasy PowerBiofilm Kit (Qiagen, Germany) with a FastPrep-24 homogenizer (MP Biomedicals, Solon, OH, USA), according to the protocol provided by the manufacturer. The concentration of DNA was assessed using Qubit (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA) and the Qubit dsDNA...
Increased frequency and intensity of droughts and floods, increasing temperatures, and decreased rainfall are specifically predicted, thus defining Southern Africa as a climate hotspot due to its existing vulnerabilities, poor adaptive capacity, under-development, and marginalisation [14]. Knowledge on ...