Social-media and newspaper reports reveal large-scale meteorological drivers of floods on Sumatra

Autor: Dariusz B. Baranowski, Maria K. Flatau, Piotr J. Flatau, Dwikorita Karnawati, Katarzyna Barabasz, Michal Labuz, Beata Latos, Jerome M. Schmidt, Jaka A. I. Paski, Marzuki
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16171-2
Popis: Floods are an important natural disaster on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, but their driving mechanisms are not well understood. Here, the authors utilize data from twitter messages and local newspaper reports to show that convectively coupled Kelvin waves play a key role in promoting floods on Sumatra.
Databáze: Directory of Open Access Journals