Integrating Physical Drought Indices and Social Vulnerability for Drought Risk Mapping in the White Volta Basin of Ghana
Available online 13 August 2026
Drought is a recurring climate hazard that affects agricultural communities in sub-Saharan Africa. Despite this, a thorough analysis of risk that incorporates physical hazard and social vulnerability...
Estimating the Spatial Distribution of Extreme Precipitation Return Levels in Central Java, Indonesia, Using a Satellite-Derived Product
Available online 11 August 2026
Modeling extreme precipitation in tropical regions is challenging due to the limited distribution of rain gauge stations and complex atmospheric dynamics. This study proposes methods to estimate the...
Standardized Visualization of Probabilistic Seismic Landslide Hazards: Technical Interpretation of Thematic Mapping Specifications
Available online 10 August 2026
Earthquake-induced landslides are among the most destructive secondary hazards associated with strong earthquakes, often causing transportation disruption, river blockage, landslide-dammed lakes, and...
Toward Seasonal Wildfire Early Warning: Deep Learning-Based Forecasting of Active Fire Hotspots Using NDMI Time Series
Available online 10 August 2026
Forest and vegetation fires are recurring environmental challenges in northern Thailand, contributing to seasonal haze, fine particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution, and wildfire-management difficulties....
From Susceptibility Ranking to Probabilistic Hazard Quantification: Technical Framework and Application of the Group Standard for Seismic Landslide Probabilistic Hazard Evaluation
Available online 7 August 2026
Seismic landslides are among the most widespread and damaging secondary hazards triggered by strong earthquakes, and their probabilistic assessment is essential for earthquake disaster-chain risk reduction,...
Statistical Frequency Analysis of Extreme Rainfall and Development of Intensity–Duration–Frequency Curves Using Chirps Satellite Data
Available online 5 August 2026
Urban flash flooding is a major challenge in cities because of its climate and its frequent urbanizing of land, being converted to impervious surfaces supporting surface runoff and drainage overflow....
A Calibrated Spatio-Temporal Machine Learning Model for Tropical Peatland Fire Risk
Available online 29 July 2026
Tropical peatland fires are complex environmental hazards with significant impacts. However, existing fire risk approaches, including empirical drought-fire indices and machine learning models that...
Standardizing Seismic Landslide Inventory Mapping: Technical Specifications and Cartographic Framework
Available online 28 July 2026
Seismic landslides are one of the most devastating secondary hazards triggered by earthquakes, often leading to casualties and economic losses comparable to those caused by the primary shock. They pose...
A comparative study on Earthquake Preparedness of Japanese and International Students in a Nankai Trough Earthquake-threatened Area in Shikoku, Japan
Available online 24 July 2026
Universities in seismically active regions serve increasingly diverse student populations with unequal levels of earthquake preparedness education. However, how such educational exposure translates...
Physics-informed neural networks and variants in weather and hydrological modeling: a systematic review
Available online 17 July 2026
Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) and other physics-informed machine-learning techniques have proven to be a powerful way to link data-driven inference to governing equations in weather and hydrological...
A Multiphase Flow Transformation Model for Analysing Debris Flow Dynamics
Available online 4 July 2026
Numerical modelling is essential for understanding landslide flow, as it can simulate a range of scenarios. Yet most models use single or two phase systems that include only solids and pore fluids,...
Comprehensive Review of Atmospheric and Environmental Disturbances Affecting Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Available online 3 July 2026
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly deployed in complex and dynamic environments where environmental disturbances play a critical role in determining flight safety, performance and mission...
Predictive modeling of InSAR-based land subsidence susceptibility via ANFIS: Application to the Isfahan-Borkhar plain
Available online 3 July 2026
Land subsidence, as an environmental hazard, has caused significant damage to infrastructure, facilities, and historical sites. As we approach the depletion of aquifers due to excessive groundwater...
Enhancing Flood Resilience through Multi-Agent Systems and Operational Research Models: Evidence from Kerala Flooding
Available online 1 July 2026
Flooding remains one of the most disruptive natural hazards for communities, infrastructure, and public services, especially where emergency response must be organised under uncertainty and resource...
Numerical and spatial assessment of coastal vegetation and topographic elevation for tsunami mitigation in southern Java
June 2026
This study presents a numerical and spatial assessment of tsunami mitigation strategies using CADMAS-SURF 2D and ArcGIS. Two scenarios are evaluated: coastal vegetation belts and topographic elevation...
From landslides to debris floods: Understanding cascading hazard mechanisms in the Nyamwamba catchment, Mt. Rwenzori, Uganda
June 2026
Inaccessible regions in upstream areas of mountainous catchments are often exposed to hazards that can trigger subsequent events in more accessible downstream areas. However, the mechanisms underlying...
Analysis of the compound disaster caused by extreme rainfall and landslides in Sumatra, Indonesia in 2025 and its implications for disaster prevention and mitigation
June 2026
This study investigates the extreme rainfall–landslide–flood disaster chain in November 2025 on Sumatra Island, Indonesia. The event caused significant casualties and infrastructure damage, exposing...
Systemically important supply chains in crisis: Mapping disruptions and global ripple effects
June 2026
This study explores the causes and effects of disruptions in systemically important supply chains (SISCs) using an integrated approach that combines Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) and Systems...
Deterministic broadband ground motions for the 1905 Kangra earthquake using multiscale source model
June 2026
The 1905 Mw 7.8 Kangra earthquake was a catastrophic event in Himalayan history, which caused widespread destruction in the near-fault region. This great historical earthquake remains inadequately understood...
A dynamic cartographic tool suite for coastal flooding vulnerability assessment
June 2026
In this article we propose a generic cartographic toolkit for vulnerability assessment to hazard based on multi-criteria analysis, enabling the most vulnerable areas to be accurately mapped. To achieve...
The Dharali catastrophic disaster of 05th August 2025: A wake-up Call from the Kheer Ganga, NW Himalaya
June 2026
The North-western (NW) Himalaya is highly vulnerable to climate-driven hazards, where glacial retreat, unstable slopes, and extreme rainfall exacerbate disaster risks. On August 5, 2025, a catastrophic...
Estimation of ground motion characteristics of the September 08, 2023 Morocco earthquake
June 2026
The Mw 6.8 Morocco earthquake of September 8, 2023 was the country's most destructive seismic event in the last six decades, causing widespread devastation and over 3000 casualties across the High Atlas...
Geospatial system for wildfire monitoring and prediction using aerospace data
June 2026
A unified wildfire early-warning system is assessed, linking Machine Learning (ML) detection with an observation-updated Cellular Automata (CA) spread model, relying only on data available at the time...
Advances in atmospheric, oceanic, and coupled models for meteorological forecasting
June 2026
Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) has evolved from atmospheric-only formulations to comprehensive Earth System Models (ESMs), driven by advances in model resolution, physical realism, and computational...
From ethical dilemmas to ethical cascading failure in disaster evacuation planning
June 2026
Traditional disaster evacuation planning has long emphasised efficiency, typically by minimising evacuation time or cost. With increasing attention to equity and social sustainability, new conflicts...