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

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 S...

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Main Authors: 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
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16171-2