Research into Meteorological Disaster Risk Regionalization in Tibet

Author

Jia, Lha ; Xiao, Tiangui

Author_Institution

Meteorol. Station of Tibet Autonomous Region, Meteorol. Bur. of Tibet Autonomous Region, Lhasa, China

fYear

2010

fDate

23-25 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The paper studies regionalization features for such seven major meteorological disasters as drought, flood, snow, frost, hailstone, strong wind and thunderstorm in Tibet through calculation and analysis of risk index and vulnerability index of disaster-bearing body according to meteorological disaster signal from 38 meteorologicalal stations in Tibet, social and economic data, meteorological disaster risk evaluation model, signal processing function of geographic information system, disaster-pregnant environment, disaster-causing factors, disaster-bearing body and effectiveness of prevention & control engineering.

Keywords

disasters; geographic information systems; geophysical signal processing; risk analysis; Tibet; disaster-causing factors; disaster-pregnant environment; drought; flood; frost; geographic information system; hailstone; meteorological disaster risk evaluation model; meteorological disasters; prevention-control engineering; risk index; signal processing function; snow; thunderstorm; vulnerability index; Agriculture; Cities and towns; Economics; Floods; Indexes; Snow;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCOM), 2010 6th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3708-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3709-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WICOM.2010.5600875

Filename

5600875