| | From Fujian to New York: Understanding the New Chinese Immigration | EconLit | JB |
| | 2001 | | Liang, Zai ; Ye, Wenzhen | Global human smuggling: Comparative perspectives (2001): |
| | (This group of articles focus on the new immigration from China to the United States. "From Fujian to |
| | New York: Understanding the New Chinese Immigration", the title of the collected work lends one to |
| | believe that this book explains why this is occurring and how.) |
| | Longterm prediction of catastrophic flood from solar-terrestrial hydrology | GeoRef | DH |
| | 2001 | | Dixue Qianyuan = Earth Science Frontiers 8, no. 1 |
| | Abstract: The author has been probing into longterm prediction of floods and droughts by combining |
| | hydrology, geography, meteorology, oceanography, geophysics and astronomy for 40 years and |
| | founded a new frontier discipline- solar-terrestrial hydrology on the basis of water circulation in the |
| | Earth. This theory and prediction method revealing the essence and crux of appearance about |
| | catastrophic flood have been successfully used many times, for the Yellow River in 1967, 1981 and |
| | 1982 and for the Yangtze River in 1981 and 1996. In the autumn of 1997, the author discovered the |
| | water vapor of a catastrophic flood in Yangtze River, which was carried by a strong southwest |
| | monsoon laden with moisture, starting from the Indian Ocean and was very closely relevant to high |
| | temperature of sea surface. An important new physical model of oceanic forerunner is cooling of the |
| | West Pacific Ocean and warming of the Indian Ocean along the equator of the Earth. Sunspot cycle |
| | No. 22 is stronger than cycle No. 22. According to "strong cycle- wet climate, weak cycle - drought |
| | climate in China", the author makes the comparison of sunspot relative number in the whole cycle and |
| | for average year within the formula of solar-terrestrial hydrological similarity model and prediction that |
| | the maximum peak discharge of flood from Yichang to Datong is 80 000 m (super 3) /s. A preliminary |
| | prediction of this catastrophic flood was declared on September 6, 1988. Behind discovery of |
| | systematical forerunners about high SST over the equatorial Indian Ocean (0-10 degrees N, 50-90 |
| | degrees E), rainstorms and floods in South-Eastern Africa and South Asia, heavy snow in Tibet, |
| | winter rainstorms and floods in neighboring regions of Zhejiang, Fujian and Jiangxi Provinces of China |
| | and especially the break record of highest level on January 1998 at Hankou for the past 133 years |
| | also were predicted. A deterministic prediction and peak discharge quantitative forecast was |
| | concluded and reported to the government on January 31, 1998. This prediction and forecast was |
| | perfectly verified in August 1998. The paper involves four parts: (1) theory and method of longterm |
| | prediction based on solar-terrestrial hydrology and applications for the most recent 30 years, (2) |
| | prediction analysis of 1998 catastrophic flood for Yangtze River, such as basic concept, historical |
| | survey, analysis of forerunners, deterministic prediction and quantitative forecast, (3) verifications of |
| | Yangtze River flooding, (4) conclusion and discussion. |
| | |
| | Why it's cool... For those non-geology majors out there, what this dude has done is developed a highly |
| | complex model for catastrophic flooding in the Fujian region. As we have already heard about |
| | previous floods in China killing hundreds of thousands of people, a predictive model would be |
| | invaluable in the protection of the current inhabitants of the area. |
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