National Institute of Natural Hazards

Execution-Consistent Event-Responsive Truck–UAV Coordination Under Simulated Progressive Road Disruption

Progressively revealed road disruptions can invalidate truck–unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) relief plans while deliveries and recovery operations are already under way. We develop ER-HLNS-PR, an event-responsive framework that reconciles realized task, vehicle, and material states...

Improved Skills for Predicting Sub‐Seasonal to Seasonal Global Sea Surface Temperature

ABSTRACT Accurate prediction of global sea surface temperature at sub‐seasonal to seasonal (S2S) timescales is critical for drought and flood forecasting, as well as for improving disaster preparedness in human society. Operational physics‐based numerical models are run to predic...

A two-stage cascaded prediction framework for urban inundation depth using a dual-branch CNN-ConvLSTM network

Study region Shenzhen, China, is a densely urbanized subtropical megacity characterized by extensive impervious surfaces, rapid runoff responses, and frequent rainfall-induced inundation. Study focus To address the underestimation of urban inundation depth driven by severe zero-i...

Service-continuity-oriented assessment and closed-loop governance of compound flood-season risk at a piedmont hospital in Beijing

Abstract Healthcare facilities in piedmont transition zones can be exposed simultaneously to slope instability, hillslope runoff, local waterlogging, access disruption, and lifeline failures during extreme rainfall. This study examines a specialized kidney hospital in Beijing and...

Surface Roughness and Chemical Weathering of Fluvial Geomorphic Surfaces: A Case Study from Qingyi River, Eastern Tibetan Plateau

River terraces and alluvial fans preserve important records of landscape evolution, yet establishing their relative chronology is often difficult where suitable materials for numerical dating are scarce. This study explores whether geomorphic-surface roughness and sediment chemic...