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The most general definition of climate change is a change in the statistical properties of the climate system when considered over periods of decades or longer, regardless of cause. However this change could be very different from one region to another. Glaciers are considered among the most sensitive indicators of climate change, advancing when climate cools and retreating when climate warms.
This article is a result of cooperation between HAII, many Thai government agencies as well as the Thai Red Cross. Information and data both domestic and international, both in printed and electronic forms were collected, analyzed and summarized to give an overall pictures of events unfolded on 26 December 2004 when a natural disaster of unprecedented scale in the region. Thailand’s six provinces...
The Earth System Grid (ESG) community faces the difficult challengeof managing the distribution of massive data sets to thousands of scientistsaround the world. To move data replicas efficiently, the ESG has developed a data transfer management tool called the Bulk Data Mover (BDM).We describe the performance results of the current system and plans towards extending the techniques developed so far...
The infamous 2004 Andaman tsunami has highlighted the need to be prepared and to be resilient to such disasters. Further, recent episodes of infectious disease epidemics worldwide underline the urgency to control and manage infectious diseases. Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) has recently formed the Disaster Research Nexus (DRN) within the School of Civil Engineering to spearhead research and development...
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