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Executive editors: Paolo Tarolli, Heidi Kreibich, Bruce D. Malamud & Uwe Ulbrich

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS) is a not-for-profit interdisciplinary and international journal dedicated to the public discussion and open-access publication of high-quality studies and original research on natural hazards and their consequences. Embracing a holistic Earth system science approach, NHESS serves a wide and diverse community of research scientists, practitioners, and decision makers concerned with detection of natural hazards, monitoring and modelling, vulnerability and risk assessment, and the design and implementation of mitigation and adaptation strategies, including economical, societal, and educational aspects.

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04 Dec 2020 20^th anniversary of NHESS: 5-minute survey

As part of NHESS' 20th-anniversary activities, we are approaching members of the natural hazards (NH) community to ask your expert opinion on the following: (i) three challenges facing our understanding of natural hazards; (ii) three broad steps or changes needed to address natural hazards and achieve sustainable development goals. Read more.

04 Dec 2020 20^th anniversary of NHESS: 5-minute survey

As part of NHESS' 20th-anniversary activities, we are approaching members of the natural hazards (NH) community to ask your expert opinion on the following: (i) three challenges facing our understanding of natural hazards; (ii) three broad steps or changes needed to address natural hazards and achieve sustainable development goals. Read more.

29 Oct 2020 Institutional agreement with ETH Zurich now for corresponding authors

As of 1 November 2020 the direct settlement of article processing charges (APCs) between the ETH Zurich and Copernicus Publications will be valid for corresponding authors.

29 Oct 2020 Institutional agreement with ETH Zurich now for corresponding authors

As of 1 November 2020 the direct settlement of article processing charges (APCs) between the ETH Zurich and Copernicus Publications will be valid for corresponding authors.

14 Oct 2020 Volunteer to be an EGUsphere preprint moderator!

EGU is seeking scientists who want to gain experience in the realm of scientific publishing to pre-screen manuscripts submitted to the Union's new online platform.

14 Oct 2020 Volunteer to be an EGUsphere preprint moderator!

EGU is seeking scientists who want to gain experience in the realm of scientific publishing to pre-screen manuscripts submitted to the Union's new online platform.

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Recent papers

15 Jan 2021

A 30 m scale modeling of extreme gusts during Hurricane Irma (2017) landfall on very small mountainous islands in the Lesser Antilles

Raphaël Cécé, Didier Bernard, Yann Krien, Frédéric Leone, Thomas Candela, Matthieu Péroche, Emmanuel Biabiany, Gael Arnaud, Ali Belmadani, Philippe Palany, and Narcisse Zahibo

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 21, 129–145, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-129-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-129-2021, 2021

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15 Jan 2021

Improving flood damage assessments in data scarce areas by retrieval of building characteristics through UAV image segmentation and machine learning – a case study of the 2019 floods in Southern Malawi

Lucas Wouters, Hans de Moel, Marleen C. de Ruiter, Anaïs Couasnon, Marc J. C. van den Homberg, and Aklilu Teklesadik

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-2020-417,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-2020-417, 2021

Preprint under review for NHESS (discussion: open, 0 comments)

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14 Jan 2021

Design of parametric risk transfer solutions for volcanic eruptions: an application to Japanese volcanoes

Delioma Oramas-Dorta, Giulio Tirabassi, Guillermo Franco, and Christina Magill

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 21, 99–113, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-99-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-99-2021, 2021

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14 Jan 2021

Beachgoers' ability to identify rip currents at a beach in situ

Sebastian J. Pitman, Katie Thompson, Deirdre E. Hart, Kevin Moran, Shari L. Gallop, Robert W. Brander, and Adam Wooler

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 21, 115–128, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-115-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-115-2021, 2021

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14 Jan 2021

Assessing internal changes in the future structure of Dry-Hot compound events. The case of the Pyrenees

Marc Lemus-Canovas and Joan Albert Lopez-Bustins

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-2021-5,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-2021-5, 2021

Preprint under review for NHESS (discussion: open, 0 comments)

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Highlight articles

17 Dec 2020

Downsizing parameter ensembles for simulations of rare floods

Anna E. Sikorska-Senoner, Bettina Schaefli, and Jan Seibert

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 20, 3521–3549, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-3521-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-3521-2020, 2020

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14 Dec 2020

New global characterisation of landslide exposure

Robert Emberson, Dalia Kirschbaum, and Thomas Stanley

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 20, 3413–3424, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-3413-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-3413-2020, 2020

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27 Nov 2020

A systematic exploration of satellite radar coherence methods for rapid landslide detection

Katy Burrows, Richard J. Walters, David Milledge, and Alexander L. Densmore

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 20, 3197–3214, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-3197-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-3197-2020, 2020

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14 Sep 2020

Storm tide amplification and habitat changes due to urbanization of a lagoonal estuary

Philip M. Orton, Eric W. Sanderson, Stefan A. Talke, Mario Giampieri, and Kytt MacManus

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 20, 2415–2432, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-2415-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-2415-2020, 2020

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28 Aug 2020

Fire Weather Index: the skill provided by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts ensemble prediction system

Francesca Di Giuseppe, Claudia Vitolo, Blazej Krzeminski, Christopher Barnard, Pedro Maciel, and Jesús San-Miguel

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 20, 2365–2378, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-2365-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-2365-2020, 2020

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