Glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) is one of the major natural disasters in Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP). On 25 June 2020, Jiwenco Lake (JGL) upper reaches Nidu river Jiari County QTP reached downstream Niwu Township on 26 June, causing damage to many bridges, roads, houses, and other infrastructure, disrupting telecommunications for several days. Based radar optical image data, evolution JGL ...

Tropical cyclones—variously defined as hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones—regularly impact human populations and periodically produce devastating weather-related natural disasters. The epidemiology of tropical cyclones is fundamentally determined by the physical forces of massive cyclonic systems intersecting with patterns of human behavior. The destructive forces of cyclonic winds, inundating ...

Barbed and woven wire fences, common structures across western North America, act as impediments to wildlife movements. In particular, fencing influences pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) daily and seasonal movements, as well as modifying habitat selection. Because of fencing's impacts to pronghorn and other wildlife, it is a potentially important factor in both wildlife movement and habitat se...

Natural disasters occur frequently in recent years, causing huge casualties and property losses. Nowadays, people pay more and more attention to the emergency logistics problems. This paper studies the emergency logistics problem with multi-center, multi-commodity, and single-affected-point. Considering that the path near the disaster point may be damaged, the information of the state of the pa...

introduction: current communication and information management systems first rely on paper and radio communications for identifying histories and tracking damaged people in times of crisis. these traditional systems have significant limitations in times of crisis. one of the most important of these limitations is that paper based systems make a static and fixed in place information repository w...