Hydrometeorological Hazards: Monitoring, Forecasting, Risk Assessment, and Socioeconomic Responses

Hydrometeorological Hazards: Monitoring,
Forecasting, Risk Assessment, and

Socioeconomic Responses
Description
Hydrometeorological hazards are caused by extreme meteorological and climate events, such as
floods, droughts, hurricanes, tornadoes, landslides, or mudslides. They account for a dominant
fraction of natural hazards and occur in all portions of the world, although the frequency,
intensity, and vulnerability of certain hazards in some regions differ from those in others. Severe
storms, strong winds, floods, and droughts develop at different spatial-temporal scales, but all
can become disasters to cause fatalities and infrastructure damage and claim thousands of lives
annually worldwide. Multiple hazards often concur in one extreme weather event. In addition to
causing injuries, deaths, and material damage, a tropical storm can also result in flooding and
mudslides, which disrupt water purification and sewage disposal systems, cause overflow of
toxic wastes, and increase propagation of mosquito-borne diseases. The increase in the frequency
of extreme events due to acceleration of the global water cycle induces more risks to human
settlements, especially those on floodplains and areas susceptible to landslides, in an era of rapid
population growth.
Monitoring and forecasting of the occurrence, intensity, and evolution of hydrometeorological

extreme events have been critical for many humanitarian and government agencies in their
efforts to prepare, mitigate, and manage responses to disaster to save lives and limit damage.
Remote sensing and modeling are two powerful technologies for providing timely information of
hazardous events. Both research areas advance rapidly to provide better understanding of
causation and geophysical process of these natural hazards, while each has its own strengths and
weaknesses. In addition to monitoring and short-range forecasting for rapid responses, long-
range projections of future changes in extremes and hazards allow for assessing risks and
therefore provide a venue to plan for adaptation and mitigation strategies. Ideally physical and
social scientists would work together to find means to integrate modeling and remote sensing
approaches that are complementary to each other for providing accurate forecasts, issuing timely
warnings, monitoring on-going hazards, reducing vulnerabilities, and building resilience for
future.
We solicit high quality, original research contributions from physical, socioeconomic sciences,
hazard response, and preparedness fields that study hydrometeorological hazards across spatial
scales.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
 Remote sensing and physical or statistical modeling of hydrometeorological hazards in

urban and rural environments
 Coupled and hyperresolution hydrometeorological modeling
 Data assimilation of remote sensing and in situ observations for improved modeling and
land surface datasets
 Ensembles and probabilistic hydrometeorological forecasting
 New method of integration of remote sensing and modeling hazard information with case
studies
 Characterization and communication of uncertainty of retrospective and operational
modeled and remotely sensed results
 Interdisciplinary and integrated model and application results from areas of hydrology,
meteorology, ecology, and socioeconomics
 Hydrometeorological hazard emergency management and quantitative damage evaluation
 Vulnerability, resilience, and risk assessment and management
 Assessment of socioeconomic impacts of/on hydrometeorological hazards
Articles
 Special Issue
 - Volume 2016
 - Article ID 2367939
 - Editorial
Hydrometeorological Hazards: Monitoring, Forecasting,

Risk Assessment, and Socioeconomic Responses
Huan Wu | Maoyi Huang | ... | Philip Ward
 05 Sep 2016
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 - Volume 2016
 - Research Article
Development and Application of Urban Landslide

Vulnerability Assessment Methodology Reflecting Social and
Economic Variables
Yoonkyung Park | Ananta Man Singh Pradhan | ... | Sangdan Kim
 31 Jul 2016
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 - Volume 2016
A Three-Parameter S-Shaped Function of Flood Return

Period and Damage
Chaochao Li | Xiaotao Cheng | ... | Song Han
 10 Jul 2016
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 - Volume 2016
A Method to Assess Localized Impact of Better Floodplain

Topography on Flood Risk Prediction
Guy J.-P. Schumann | Konstantinos M. Andreadis
 19 Jun 2016
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 - Volume 2016
A Multimethod Approach towards Assessing Urban Flood

Patterns and Its Associated Vulnerabilities in Singapore
Winston T. L. Chow | Brendan D. Cheong | Beatrice H. Ho
 16 Jun 2016
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 - Volume 2016
Accuracy Improvement of Discharge Measurement with

Modification of Distance Made Good Heading
Jongkook Lee | Hongjoon Shin | ... | Changsam Jeong
 31 Jan 2016
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Hydrometeorological Hazards: Monitoring,

Forecasting, Risk Assessment, and

Monitoring and forecasting of the occurrence, intensity, and evolution of hydrometeorological

 Remote sensing and physical or statistical modeling of hydrometeorological hazards in

Hydrometeorological Hazards: Monitoring, Forecasting,

Development and Application of Urban Landslide

A Three-Parameter S-Shaped Function of Flood Return

A Method to Assess Localized Impact of Better Floodplain

A Multimethod Approach towards Assessing Urban Flood

Accuracy Improvement of Discharge Measurement with

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