Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/WICOM.2010.5600875
