Typhoons / Cyclones and E-Resilience
A typhoon / cyclone is a term used by meteorologists to describe a rotating, organized system of clouds and thunderstorms that originates over water and has closed, low-level circulation. Typhoons / cyclones can have severe consequences for people and critical ICT infrastructure in Asia and the Pacific. The E-Resilience Toolkit offers insights into a spectrum of available ICT tools and best practices that may benefit policymakers, DRM professionals and vulnerable communities in the Asia-Pacific region to enhance e-resilience and disaster risk management in the context of typhoon / cyclone hazard.
Displaying 36 - 41 of 41 tools and best practices relevant to typhoons / cyclones.
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IDRN is a web-based platform for managing inventories of equipment, human resources and critical supplies for emergency response.
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PAGASA provides weather forecasts and risk / flood hazard maps through ICT in the Philippines.
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EM-DAT is an online database of historical disaster related information maintained by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED). Its is a global database on natural and technological disasters, containing essential core data on the occurrence and effects of more than 21,000 disasters in the world, from 1900 to present.
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By dialing 10941 in Bangladesh, people can receive emergency alerts related to weather, rainfall, cyclones, floods and landslides.
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AIDR is free and open source software that automatically collects and classifies tweets that are posted during humanitarian crises.
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The Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology of Cambodia provides weather-related maps and information.