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Natural Disasters and Extreme Solar Energy

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2020) | Viewed by 10111

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Vladimir Sreckovic

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The Astrophysics and Ionospheric Laboratory, Institute of Physics Belgrade, University of Belgrade, 11080 Belgrade, Serbia
Interests: space weather studies of upper atmosphere; astrogeoinformatics; astroinformatics; databases; data-mining; natural hazards
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Dr. Aleksandra Nina

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Institute of Physics Belgrade, University of Belgrade, Pregrevica 118, 11080 Belgrade, Serbia
Interests: ionosphere; VLF/LF signals; remote sensing; natural hazards
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Prof. Dr. Milan Radovanović

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Geographical Institute “Jovan Cvijic” Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Djure Jakšića 9, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Interests: My field of interest is influences of the sun on the atmospheric processes and environment on earth. In last few years my team and I have tried to develop models by which the relationship can be explained between the influx of charged particles from the sun and forest fires. Additionally, I am involved in the research of physical geography, natural hazards and tourism.
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The atmosphere is a very sensitive medium to extraterrestrial forces, most importantly, solar electromagnetic radiation and energetic particle intrusion. This released intense solar activity can cause sudden disturbances in the Earth’s atmosphere and further create ground telecommunication interferences, blackouts, transportation problems, water supply problems, potential health effects, as well as natural disasters, such as forest fires. These extreme events can cause billions of dollars of damage and impact individuals, families, communities, and societies. For this reason, it is of crucial importance to investigate the connections between this extreme activity, natural disasters, and further develop ways to prevent, prepare against, and respond to them. The aim of this Special Issue is to engage a wide community of scientists to defragment and expend current knowledge in this field.

We would like to invite you to submit review-papers, case studies, or research articles that formulate innovative approaches related to this field so that these results can be used by other scientists as well as engineers and other people employed in the industry. Potential topics include but are not limited to:

- Natural hazards;

- solar activity;

- Fires;

- Atmosphere modeling and forecasting;

- Remote sensing;

- Public health;

- Transportation safety;

- Telecommunication disturbances;

and other topics that connect risk, disasters, and sustainability.

Dr. Vladimir A. Sreckovic
Dr. Aleksandra Nina
Prof. Dr. Milan Radovanovic
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • natural hazards
  • solar activity
  • fires
  • solar flares
  • atmosphere
  • modeling and forecasting
  • remote sensing
  • public health
  • transportation safety
  • telecommunication disturbances

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Editorial
Multidisciplinarity in Research of Extreme Solar Energy Influences on Natural Disasters
by Aleksandra Nina, Vladimir A. Srećković and Milan Radovanović
Sustainability 2019, 11(4), 974; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su11040974 - 14 Feb 2019
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The atmosphere is a very sensitive medium to extraterrestrial forces, most importantly, solar electromagnetic radiation and energetic particle intrusion. This released intense solar activity can cause sudden disturbances in the Earth’s atmosphere and further create ground telecommunication interferences, blackouts, transportation problems, water supply [...] Read more.
The atmosphere is a very sensitive medium to extraterrestrial forces, most importantly, solar electromagnetic radiation and energetic particle intrusion. This released intense solar activity can cause sudden disturbances in the Earth’s atmosphere and further create ground telecommunication interferences, blackouts, transportation problems, water supply problems, potential health effects, as well as natural disasters, such as forest fires. These extreme events can cause billions of dollars of damage and impact individuals, families, communities, and societies. For this reason, it is of crucial importance to investigate the connections between this extreme activity and natural disasters, and further develop ways to prevent, prepare against, and respond to them. The aim of this special issue is to engage a wide community of scientists to de-fragment broaden and improve our knowledge in this field. We invite researchers from all relevant fields to publish their recent investigations in this special issue. Full article
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Connection of Solar Activities and Forest Fires in 2018: Events in the USA (California), Portugal and Greece
by Yaroslav Vyklyuk, Milan M. Radovanović, Gorica Stanojević, Marko D. Petrović, Nina B. Ćurčić, Milan Milenković, Slavica Malinović Milićević, Boško Milovanović, Anatoliy A. Yamashkin, Ana Milanović Pešić, Dobrila Lukić and Mirjana Gajić
Sustainability 2020, 12(24), 10261; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su122410261 - 09 Dec 2020
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The impact of solar activity on environmental processes is difficult to understand and complex for empirical modeling. This study aimed to establish forecast models of the meteorological conditions in the forest fire areas based on the solar activity parameters applying the neural networks [...] Read more.
The impact of solar activity on environmental processes is difficult to understand and complex for empirical modeling. This study aimed to establish forecast models of the meteorological conditions in the forest fire areas based on the solar activity parameters applying the neural networks approach. During July and August 2018, severe forest fires simultaneously occurred in the State of California (USA), Portugal, and Greece. Air temperature and humidity data together with solar parameters (integral flux of solar protons, differential electron flux and proton flux, solar wind plasma parameters, and solar radio flux at 10.7 cm data) were used in long short-term memory (LSTM) recurrent neural network ensembles. It is found that solar activity mostly affects the humidity for two stations in California and Portugal (an increase in the integral flux of solar protons of > 30 MeV by 10% increases the humidity by 3.25%, 1.65%, and 1.57%, respectively). Furthermore, an increase in air temperature of 10% increases the humidity by 2.55%, 2.01%, and 0.26%, respectively. It is shown that temperature is less sensitive to changes in solar parameters but depends on previous conditions (previous increase of 10% increases the current temperature by 0.75%, 0.34%, and 0.33%, respectively). Humidity in Greece is mostly impacted by solar flux F10.7 cm and previous values of humidity. An increase in these factors by 10% will lead to a decrease in the humidity of 3.89% or an increase of 1.31%, while air temperature mostly depends on ion temperature. If this factor increases by 10%, it will lead to air temperature rising by 0.42%. Full article
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Typhoon Disaster Risk Assessment Based on Emergy Theory: A Case Study of Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province, China
by Zhicheng Gao, Rongjin Wan, Qian Ye, Weiguo Fan, Shihui Guo, Sergio Ulgiati and Xiaobin Dong
Sustainability 2020, 12(10), 4212; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su12104212 - 21 May 2020
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Typhoons and cyclones are the most impacting and destructive natural disasters in the world. To address the shortcomings of a previous typhoon disaster risk assessment (for example, human factors were involved in determining weights by importance, and this affected the experimental results), an [...] Read more.
Typhoons and cyclones are the most impacting and destructive natural disasters in the world. To address the shortcomings of a previous typhoon disaster risk assessment (for example, human factors were involved in determining weights by importance, and this affected the experimental results), an emergy method, which converts energy flows of different properties into the same solar energy basis for a convenient comparison, was used to assess the risk of regional typhoon disasters. Typhoon disaster-related data from 2017 were used to develop an index system including resilience, potential strength, and sensitivity which was in turn applied to assess typhoon disaster risks in Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province, China. The results showed that the spatial distribution of the typhoon disaster risks in Zhuhai significantly differed, with the highest risk in Xiangzhou district, the second highest risk in Doumen district, and the lowest risk in Jinwan district. In addition, improving the level of regional resilience can effectively reduce risks from typhoon disasters. The application of the emergy method in a typhoon disaster risk assessment may provide some theoretical support for national and regional governmental strategies for disaster prevention and reduction. Full article
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