Natural Hazards

Regional Air Quality Modelling in Canada — Applications for Policy and Real-Time Prediction.- The 1997 El Niño, Indonesian Forest Fires and the Malaysian Smoke Problem: A Deadly Combination of Natural and Man-Made Hazard.- Three-Dimensional Simulation of Water Circulation in the Java Sea: Influence of Wind Waves on Surface and Bottom Stresses.- Tidal Changes and Coastal Hazards: Past, Present and Future.- Tsunamis Observed on and Near the Turkish Coast.- Post-Tsunami Field Survey Procedures: An Outline.- An Analysis of the Recent Severe Storm Surge Disaster Events in China.- Risk Assessment, Emergency Preparedness and Response to Hazards: The Case of the 1997 Red River Valley Flood, Canada.- Robust Statistical Methods to Discriminate Extreme Events in Geoelectrical Precursory Signals: Implications with Earthquake Prediction.- Hydrogeochemical Precursors in Kamchatka (Russia) Related to the Strongest Earthquakes in 1988–1997.- Multifractal Analysis of the Arnea, Greece Seismicity with Potential Implications for Earthquake Prediction.- Estimation of Strong Ground Motion Due to Hypothetical Fault Ruptures and Comparison with Recorded Values: The Zakynthos, Western Greece Earthquake of 18 November 1997.- Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy Used as a Tool for the Detection of Fractures in Rock Samples Exposed to either Hydrostatic or Triaxial Pressure Conditions.- Earthquake Hazard for the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia — Contribution to the ILC/IASPEI Global Seismic Hazard Assessment Program.- Contribution of Geographical Information Systems to the Management of Volcanic Crises.- GIS and Volcanic Risk Management.- A Systems Approach to Modeling Catastrophic Risk and Insurability.- Hazards-98: Summary of Papers.