After nearly two weeks with banks closed, a ban on spending money overseas and tight daily caps on cash machine withdrawals, the economy has been grinding to a halt and many districts of Athens have had the subdued air of a city emptied in preparation for storms or other forecast disasters.
Satellite imagery contributes to weather forecasts, disaster relief, climate modeling, population analysis, and crop monitoring.
The industrial explosion hazards control mechanism consists of disaster monitoring and forecasting, disaster relief, and post-disaster recovery components.
The propagation characteristics of swell energy are important for applications such as swell wave power generation, ocean wave forecasting, disaster prevention and reduction, etc.
The goal is to be able to assess risk and forecast when disaster looms — locally, regionally, even globally.
In Dublin, the Irish Prime Minister, Bertie Ahern, held talks with Gerry Adams, president of the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, who forecast "a disaster" if the fledging power-sharing administration was mothballed for even a brief period.
The case of the El Niño costero should be viewed as a lesson for governments and forecasters to heed attention to not only the climate information generated by forecasts, but also the context of the forecast and disaster setting, which is equally important and can influence societal responses to hydrometeorological threats.
From Mary Shelley's Frankenstein through Arnold Toynbee, HG Wells and Aldous Huxley, each human advance is accompanied by forecasts of disaster.
French weather experts were criticised for not forecasting the disaster but insisted they had issued adequate warnings and admitted they could not have predicted the severity of what they described as "sudden and exceptional" meteorological conditions.
