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"This volume, edited by Karin Riley, Peter Webley, and Matthew Thompson, tackles the often-neglected topic of uncertainty in judging the effectiveness of the natural disaster models used when informing action...While not for casual reading, this volume nonetheless provides an approachable way to learn about the realities of natural disaster modelling. In addition, it highlights the importance of uncertainty, an inseparable part of science that is very often ignored." (Phenotype June 2017)
Table of Contents
Contributors vii
1 Uncertainty in Natural Hazards, Modeling and Decision Support: An Introduction to This Volume 1
Karin Riley, Matthew Thompson, Peter Webley, and Kevin D Hyde
Part I: Uncertainty, Communication, and Decision Support 9
2 Natural Hazard Modeling and Uncertainty Analysis 11
Matthew Thompson and Jord J Warmink
3 Understanding Uncertainty as a Key Interdisciplinary Problem in Earth System Science 21
Florian Rauser and Gernot Geppert
4 Uncertainty and Probability in Wildfire Management Decision Support: An Example from the United States 31
Matthew Thompson, David Calkin, Joe H Scott, and Michael Hand
5 Role of Uncertainty in Decision Support for Volcanic Ash Cloud Modeling 43
Peter Webley
Part II: Geological Hazards 57
6 Building an Uncertainty Modeling Framework for Real-Time VATD 59
Peter Webley, Abani Patra, Marcus Bursik, E Bruce Pitman, Jonathan Dehn, Tarung Singh, Puneet Singla, Matthew D Jones, Reza Madankan, E Ramona Stefanescu, and Solene Pouget
7 Uncertainties in Estimating Magma Source Parameters from InSAR Observation 89
Wenyu Gong, Zhong Lu, and Franz Meyer
8 Improving Model Simulations of Volcanic Emission Clouds and Assessing Model Uncertainties 105
Nina Iren Kristiansen, Delia Arnold, Christian Maurer, Julius Vira, Razvan Rădulescu, Damien Martin, ndreas Stohl, Kerstin Stebel, Mikhail Sofiev, Colin O’Dowd, and Gerhard Wotawa
9 Uncertainty Assessment of Pyroclastic Density Currents at Mount Vesuvius (Italy) Simulated Through the Energy Cone Model 125
Pablo Tierz, Laura Sandri, Antonio Costa, Roberto Sulpizio, Lucia Zaccarelli, Mauro Antonio Di Vito, and Warner Marzocchi
10 Earthquake Loss Estimation in the Gyeongju Area, Southeastern Korea, Using a Site Classification Map 147
Su Young Kang and Kwang-Hee Kim
11 Implications of Different Digital Elevation Models and Preprocessing Techniques to Delineate Debris Flow Inundation Hazard Zones in El Salvador 167
Eric Ross Anderson, Robert E Griffin, and Daniel E Irwin
12 Evaluating the Performance of FLO2D for Simulating Past Lahar Events at the Most Active Mexican Volcanoes: Popocatépetl and Volcán de Colima 179
Lizeth Caballero, Lucia Capra, and Rosario Vázquez
Part III: Biophysical and Climatic Hazards 191
13 An Uncertainty Analysis of Wildfire Modeling 193
Karin Riley and Matthew Thompson
14 Fire and Smoke Remote Sensing and Modeling Uncertainties: Case Studies in Northern Sub]Saharan Africa 215
Charles Ichoku, Luke T Ellison, Yun Yue, Jun Wang, and Johannes W Kaiser
15 Uncertainty and Complexity Tradeoffs When Integrating Fire Spread with Hydroecological Projections 231
Maureen C Kennedy and Donald McKenzie
16 Uncertainty Quantification and Propagation for Projections of Extremes in Monthly Area Burned Under Climate Change: A Case Study in the Coastal Plain of Georgia, USA 245
Adam J Terando, Brian Reich, Krishna Pacifici, Jennifer Costanza, Alexa McKerrow, and Jaime A Collazo
17 Simulating Vegetation Change, Carbon Cycling, and Fire Over the Western United States Using CMIP5 Climate Projections 257
D Bachelet, T Sheehan, K Ferschweiler, and J Abatzoglou
18 Sensitivity of Vegetation Fires to Climate, Vegetation, and Anthropogenic Drivers in the HESFIRE Model: Consequences for Fire Modeling and Projection Uncertainties 277
Yannick Le Page
19 Uncertainties in Predicting Debris Flow Hazards Following Wildfire 287
Kevin D Hyde, Karin Riley, and Cathelijne Stoof
20 Capturing Spatiotemporal Variation in Wildfires for Improving Postwildfire Debris-Flow Hazard Assessments 301
Jessica R Haas, Matthew Thompson, Anne Tillery, and Joe H Scott
21 Uncertainty in Estimation of Debris-Flow Triggering Rainfall: Evaluation and Impact on Identification of Threshold Relationships 319
E I Nikolopoulos, F Marra, and M Borga
22 Prospects in Landslide Prediction: Confronting the Challenges of Precipitation Uncertainty 329
Natasha Markuzon, Catherine Slesnick, Erin Leidy, John Regan, Xiang Gao, and Adam Schlosser
Index 337
