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Influence of Reservoir Operation in the Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River (China) on the Inflow and Outflow Regime of the TGR-based on the Improved SWAT Model
Zhang, Nan; He, Hong; Zhang, Shao; Jiang, Xiao; Xia, Zi; … - In: Water Resources Management 26 (2012) 3, pp. 691-705
The impact of hydraulic engineering works and human activities on hydrology has become a hot issue along with the economy and social development. The water cycle model of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River (URYR) is established based on the improved Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT)...
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On measuring quality of a probabilistic commodity forecast for a system that incorporates seasonal climate forecasts
Potgieter, AB; Everingham, YL; Hammer, GL - 2003
Regional commodity forecasts are being used increasingly in agricultural industries to enhance their risk management and decision-making processes. These commodity forecasts are probabilistic in nature and are often integrated with a seasonal climate forecast system. The climate forecast system...
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Implications of seasonal climate forecasts on world wheat trade: a stochastic, dynamic analysis
Hill, HSJ; Mjelde, JW; Love, HA; Rubas, DJ; Fuller, SW; … - 2004
Improvements in seasonal climate forecasts have potential economic implications for international agriculture. A stochastic, dynamic simulation model of the international wheat economy is developed to estimate the potential effects of seasonal climate forecasts for various countries' wheat...
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Neighborhood and Agricultural Clusters across States of India
Chaterjee, Tirtha; Kumar, A. Ganesh - eSocialSciences - 2014
mechanization, infrastructural support, deviations from normal rainfall and price differences, higher are the chances that they will …
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Risk Preferences and Environmental Uncertainty: Implications for Crop Diversification Decisions in Ethiopia
Bezabih, Mintewab; Sarr, Mare - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 53 (2012) 4, pp. 483-505
empirically assessing the effects of risk aversion and rainfall variability on farm level diversity. Unique panel data from … Ethiopia consisting of experimentally generated risk aversion measures combined with rainfall data are employed in the analysis …, simultaneously controlling for environmental risk in the form of rainfall variability. Covariate shocks from rainfall variability are …
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Response of west Indian coastal regions and Kavaratti lagoon to the November-2009 tropical cyclone Phyan
Joseph, Antony; Prabhudesai, R.; Mehra, Prakash; Kumar, … - In: Natural Hazards 57 (2011) 2, pp. 293-312
large values (~6), whereas Island station (Kavaratti) exhibiting ~1 (indicating consistently steady wind). Rainfall in …
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Research on prediction of debris flows triggered in channels
Yu, Bin - In: Natural Hazards 58 (2011) 1, pp. 391-406
attention. Most prediction methods are based on rainfall as the basic parameter, with the moment of occurrence as only result … in channels and the volume of rainfall in the basin, this paper also gives a systematic analysis on the travel time and … flood ≥0.35 m<Superscript>3</Superscript>/s.m. It uses the 10-min rainfall intensity to calculate both the run-off of the …
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Evaluation of the weather research and forecasting (WRF) model over Guyana
Rao, Y. Rama; Alves, Lyndon; Seulall, Bhaleka; … - In: Natural Hazards 61 (2012) 3, pp. 1243-1261
In the present study, diagnostic studies were undertaken using station-based rainfall data sets of selected stations of … Guyana to understand the variability of rainfall. The multidecadal variation in rainfall of coastal station Georgetown and … inland station Timehri has shown that the rainfall variability was less during the May–July (20–30%) of primary wet season …
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The atmospheric water as a triggering factor for earthquakes in the central Virginia seismic zone
Muço, Betim - In: Natural Hazards 71 (2014) 1, pp. 135-150
such as torrential rainfall or hurricanes. As we probe for a correlation between earthquake time series for central …
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Recent landslides on the Istrian Peninsula, Croatia
Jovančević, Sanja Dugonjić; Arbanas, Željko - In: Natural Hazards 62 (2012) 3, pp. 1323-1338
This study presents a review of recently recorded instability phenomena on the flysch slopes of Istria, Croatia. The northeastern part of the Istrian Peninsula, the so-called Gray Istria, is built of Paleogene flysch deposits, where instability phenomena are frequent and where a large number of...
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