| Session Details | |
| Section | IG - Interdisciplinary Geosciences |
| Session Title | Modeling Extreme Natural Hazards In Asia |
| Main Convener | Dr. Shuangcai Li (Risk Management Solutions, United States) |
| Co-convener(s) | Dr. Chris Mortgat (Risk Management Solutions, United States) Dr. Yizhong Qu (AIR-Worldwide Corporation, China) Dr. Tao Ye (Beijing Normal University, China) |
| Session Description | Asia is exposed to extreme meteorological, hydrological and geological natural disasters, such as typhoon, flood, drought, earthquake, landslides, tsunami, and etc. The coastal cities are particularly vulnerable from tsunamis and typhoon induced floods. The high concentration of economic exposure in flood-prone area is likely to drive a catastrophic loss skyward. It is not uncommon that one country, such as China, may suffer from deficient and overwhelming precipitation, i.e. drought and waterlogging, within the same year, resulting in catastrophic damage on crop yield and food security. Over the recent years, this region has observed how severe disasters, e.g. 2011 Thailand floods and Tohoku earthquake/tsunami, significantly damaged regional well-being and threatened world economics furthermore. Numerically modeling the natural hazards through mathematical models and statistical frequency analysis are necessary to understand the risk and evaluate its financial impacts. This session is dedicated to discuss methodology, techniques and solutions to quantitatively model the entire spectrum of extreme disasters, including all perils (meteorological, hydrological and geological disasters), all aspects (hazards, vulnerability, risk and resilience), and all impacts (on manufacturing, commercial, agricultural, financial, insurance industry and general economics). |