Heads Up! : Early Warning Systems for Climate, Water and Weather-Related Hazards.

By: Glantz, Michael HMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Tokyo : United Nations University Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (220 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789280871388Subject(s): Climatic changes -- Forecasting -- Environmental aspects | Climatic changes -- Forecasting | Geographic information systems | Weather forecastingGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Heads Up! : Early Warning Systems for Climate, Water and Weather-Related HazardsDDC classification: 363.34 LOC classification: QC981.8.C5 -- H43 2009ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- Tables and figures -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- Interest in early warning -- The "Precautionary Principle" as the basis of early warning -- What constitutes an early warning system (EWS)? -- Some tools of the early warning trade -- EWS quick facts -- Threats: The perils that compel early warning -- The perception of the role of EWSs -- The reality of the role of EWSs -- Surprises -- The future has been arriving earlier than predicted -- take global warming, for example -- Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Constraints assessment -- 2 Climate-, water- and weather-related hazards -- Hurricanes -- Severe winter storms -- Heat waves -- Tornadoes -- El Niño Southern Oscillation -- Vector-borne disease -- Severe weather -- Fire Danger Index (FDI) -- Anatomy and Australian bushfires -- Air pollution in metropolitan areas -- Dust and sandstorm early warning -- 3 Too much, too little -- Floods -- Droughts -- 4 Global warming -- Global warming -- Coral reef bleaching -- Sea-level rise -- Integrated Vector Management -- 5 Earth hazards -- Tsunamis -- Volcano early warning systems -- Earthquake early warning -- Space weather -- US ultraviolet forecasts -- 6 Concluding thoughts -- Lessons learned about "lessons learned" -- Foreseeability of hazards -- References.
Summary: The forces of nature can have deadly and damaging consequences for societies and ecosystems that stand in their path. Early warning systems offer one of the best defenses against the adverse effects of climate, water, weather and geologic hazards, although far too often this realization is made after disaster strikes.Heads Up! provides a useful review of early warning systems in operation today, while exploring a range of hazards including hurricanes, heat waves, floods, droughts, tsunami and volcanoes. With contributions from an international team of scientists, this practical handbook serves as a valuable contribution to our awareness and understanding of the role early warning systems play in disaster avoidance and reduction.
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- Tables and figures -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- Interest in early warning -- The "Precautionary Principle" as the basis of early warning -- What constitutes an early warning system (EWS)? -- Some tools of the early warning trade -- EWS quick facts -- Threats: The perils that compel early warning -- The perception of the role of EWSs -- The reality of the role of EWSs -- Surprises -- The future has been arriving earlier than predicted -- take global warming, for example -- Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Constraints assessment -- 2 Climate-, water- and weather-related hazards -- Hurricanes -- Severe winter storms -- Heat waves -- Tornadoes -- El Niño Southern Oscillation -- Vector-borne disease -- Severe weather -- Fire Danger Index (FDI) -- Anatomy and Australian bushfires -- Air pollution in metropolitan areas -- Dust and sandstorm early warning -- 3 Too much, too little -- Floods -- Droughts -- 4 Global warming -- Global warming -- Coral reef bleaching -- Sea-level rise -- Integrated Vector Management -- 5 Earth hazards -- Tsunamis -- Volcano early warning systems -- Earthquake early warning -- Space weather -- US ultraviolet forecasts -- 6 Concluding thoughts -- Lessons learned about "lessons learned" -- Foreseeability of hazards -- References.

The forces of nature can have deadly and damaging consequences for societies and ecosystems that stand in their path. Early warning systems offer one of the best defenses against the adverse effects of climate, water, weather and geologic hazards, although far too often this realization is made after disaster strikes.Heads Up! provides a useful review of early warning systems in operation today, while exploring a range of hazards including hurricanes, heat waves, floods, droughts, tsunami and volcanoes. With contributions from an international team of scientists, this practical handbook serves as a valuable contribution to our awareness and understanding of the role early warning systems play in disaster avoidance and reduction.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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