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China has millennia of experience in enduring and taming floods, the most common meteorological disaster in the country [9]. Three floods with the highest casualties in Chinese history are the 1887 Yellow River flood, the 1931 Yangtze–Huai flood, and the 1938 Yellow River flood, respectively, each leading to deaths of over 900,000 [10 ...
12 lis 2023 · On 20 July 2021, an extreme rainstorm battered Zhengzhou in China’s Henan Province, killing 302 people, including 14 individuals who drowned in a subway tunnel and 6 who drowned in a road...
30 gru 2022 · Here, using the recent 7•20 flood disaster in 2021 in the inland province of Henan, China, as an example, we examine the extreme flood, the impacts, and how the climate extremeness and ...
Taking a case study-based approach by focusing on the record-breaking Zhengzhou flood, this paper examines the governance capacity of inland cities in North China for managing extreme precipitation and flooding events from the perspective of the flood risk management process.
1 sie 2020 · In summary, despite the record-breaking rainfall and flood in southern China in 2020, the magnitude of the disaster was much lower than in 1954 or 1998.
River flooding is among the most catastrophic disasters worldwide. The Pearl River, the longest watercourse in southern China, particularly its lower reach with dense population and economic...
1 paź 2019 · Here we summarize the various types of outburst floods in China, assess their causes and characteristics, and identify research gaps that need to be addressed to improve outburst flooding research in the future.
