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Facing the Threat: Climate Change

As part of its activities in water sciences research, and those of the UNESCO Chair on Hydrometeorological Risks, the University of the Americas Puebla has published the book Facing the Threat: Climate Change, which brings an important collection of papers related to hydro-meteorological risks and climate change.

The book's editor has been Dr. Jose A. Raynal Villaseñor, with the co-edition of Drs. María Elena Raynal-Gutiérrez, Dr. Benito Corona-Vasquez, Dr. Polioptro F. Martínez-Austria and Dr. Carlos Patiño-Gómez, all of them members of the UNESCO Chair in Hydrometeorological Risks.

Table of contents

Part A: Hydrometeorological Risks

Assessing trends in rainfall erosivity and extremes using an index-flood model with local likelihood smoothing.
Martin Hanel, Jan Kyselý and Adam Vizina

Estimating hydraulic roughness coefficients for floodplain forests using source point densities from the U.S. Geological Survey 3d elevation program.
Emitt C. Witt III and Scott A. Hoffman

Hydrologic uncertainty pertaining to freeboard analysis- unit hydrograph analysis.
Rolando Bravo and Matthew A. Coe

Bias correction methods for water resources management.
Adam Vizina, Martin Hanel, Roman Kožin and Stanislav Horaček

Smart water management in complex basins through integrated decision support Technologies.
Eva Contreras Arribas, Raquel Gomez Beas and Antonio Linares Saez

Part B: Climate Change

The 7+ initiative: a measure for global climate change adaptation.
Jose A. Raynal-Villasenor and Maria E. Raynal-Gutierrez

Geographic information system: a useful tool for water management under climate change conditions.
Carlos Patiño Gomez, Polioptro F. Martinez-Austria, Paul Hernandez Romero, Ruth Mondragon Monroy and David E. Guevara Polo

Pattern of rainfall anomalies and rural water supply in Sudano-Sahelian region of Nigeria.
Aliyu Tambuwal Umar

Understanding past and present hydro-meteorological risks at Nejapa Valley.
Coral Garcia-Govea Coral, Victor Rosales-Sierra, Stacie-Marie King, Salvador Aquino, Patricia Rosales-Sierra and Reza Issa

Part C: Keynote Lectures

Forested watersheds, climate change, ecosystem services, and natural hazards.
Mathew C. Larsen

The climate change-air pollution connection: adsorption as a mitigation strategy.
David Ramirez, Weimin Xi, Kailas Malwade and Oluwatosin Oyelakin

Dark clouds and silver linings: climate change and environmental health case study: Mexico.
John R. Nuckols

Hydro-Meteorological Risks and Climate Change 2014

Proceedings of the First International Conference on Hydro-Meteorological Risks and Climate Change

Edited by José A. Raynal-Villaseñor.
Senior Editor: Benito Corona-Vásquez.
Co-Editors: Carlos Patiño-Gómez; Maria E. Raynal-Gutiérrez; Polioptro F. Martínez-Austria

Table of contents

Part A: Hydrometeorological risks

Implementation of the national program for prevention against hydraulic contingencies.
Felipe Arreguín Cortés; Horacio Rubio Gutiérrez

Deterministic hydrological modeling and flood risk assessment of Mexico City.
Rafael Vargas; Duong Vo Ngoc; Philippe Gourbesville

Program of preventive and mitigation drought measures of the Rio Balsas basin council.
David Ortega-Gausin; Israel Velasco Velasco; Mario López-Pérez; Justo Cardoso-García

Flood disasters in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.
Sunday Ighovie Efe

Entropy theory for frequency analysis of Hydrometeorological Extremes.
Vijay P. Singh; Lu Chen

Analysis and modeling of non-Darcian flow in groundwater with Modflow CFP.
R. Adhikari; R. Bravo

Tectonic, climate and drainage influences on landslide risk of the quaternary Colorado piedmont alluvial fan in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
David Zúñiga-De León; Stephen Kershaw

Part B: Climate change

Effect of climate change on the occurrence of meteorological drought in Zacatecas, Mexico.
Carlos Escalante-Sandoval; Pedro Núñez-García

Temperature and heat wave trends in Mexicali, Mexico.
Polioptro Martinez-Austria; Carlos Villegas-Zeron

A proposed carbon dioxide sequestration method based on cavitation.
José A. Raynal-Villaseñor; Maria E. Raynal-Gutierrez

Possible scenarios of global climate change effects on potential evaporation in the watershed of the Lerma River, Mexico.
Jose A. Raynal-Villaseñor; Celina Sanchez-Sanchez

Possible scenarios of global climate change effects on potential evaporation in the watershed of the Baluarte, Culiacán and Sinaloa Rivers, Mexico.
Jose A. Raynal-Villaseñor; Celina Sanchez-Sanchez

Assessing the influence of large scale atmospheric circulations on annual maximum discharge in continental Spanish rivers.
Jesus Lopez-De la Cruz; Feliz Frances

Water management in transboundary river basins under climate change conditions.
Carlos Patiño-Gomez; Polioptro Martinez-Austria

Virtual capacity building in water resources management as a strategy to cope with hydro-meteorological risks and climate change in Mexico.
Luis E. Marin; Rosa Maria Leal; Tomas Mier, Gerardo Arroyo, Mario Balcazar; Hugo Parra; Hilda Viveros

Adaptation measures in the agricultural sector considering climate change.
Carlos Patiño-Gomez; Oscar M. Rodriguez-Narvaez

Use of BIM tools for the development of basic infrastructure: design and modeling of a peri-urban ecologic house for the city of Puebla, Mexico.
Israel Diaz-Rojas; Nicolas Lopez-Tamayo; Benito Corona-Vasquez

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