Monitoring and Forecasting of Flood Disasters in Southwest China

Author: Yu Shuhua (Editor-in-Chief)
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: This book conducts an in-depth analysis and research on the spatiotemporal distribution, meteorological and hydrological characteristics, as well as the flood and rainstorm processes that cause localized and regional floods in Southwest China. It achieves significant results in understanding the causes of flood and rainstorms in Southwest China, the physical mechanisms behind their formation, conceptual models for flood formation, monitoring techniques for flood disasters, and forecasting methods for flood and rainstorms. These findings provide feasible approaches for further strengthening the monitoring of flood disasters, improving the forecasting accuracy of flood and rainstorms and mountain disaster weather, and reducing the losses caused by flood disasters. This book is suitable for meteorologists, hydrologists, mountain disaster forecasters, and researchers, as well as for flood control and disaster management personnel and commanders.