{"content":[{"text":"Courting Catastrophes from hill torrents through adaptation in \n changing climate \n Case study of Swat, KPK \n Summary: \n The three consecutive days very heavy rain spell in the Swat region during last week of \n August 2020 was one of the major key role player in deteriorating impacts induced by \n climate change in the region. At least 40 houses swept into the torrent after River Swat \n overflowed into Madyan. The flash flood occurred following heavy rains in the area \n including Malam Jabba, Dir, Madain, Bahrain and Kalam which were also cut off from \n the rest of the region after floods water washed away 12 bridges connecting the areas.","bbox":{"left":0.12441,"top":0.083034,"width":0.839852,"height":0.251101}},{"text":"Over the years it is seen that western regions of the KPK province have experienced and \n shall be prone to extreme warming with up to 2°C increase in maximum temperature by \n next 25 years in a carbon forced climate. According to Clausius–Clapeyron relation, \n moisture holding capacity of the atmosphere increases by 7% when temperature is \n increased by 1°C. Therefore, moisture holding capacity of Swat region is susceptible to \n increase by a whopping 14% which would be liable to constrain voluminous amount of \n additional vapour. That vapour when met with favourable atmospheric cooling conditions \n would have potential to generate extreme rainfall events in smaller duration of time and \n may cause devastating flash floods in the region.","bbox":{"left":0.12441,"top":0.355789,"width":0.839954,"height":0.19829599999999992}},{"text":"To address such extreme regimes over the Swat region, amount of heavy precipitation that \n occurs in 5 consecutive days (RX5day) over the historical and the projected periods have \n been analysed. Results depict that historical trend of RX5day remains consistent in the \n current period which endorses the returning cycles of the rain extremes to recur over time","bbox":{"left":0.12441,"top":0.575739,"width":0.840045,"height":0.08823800000000004}}],"images_bbox":[{"left":0.124303,"top":0.685026,"width":0.825942,"height":0.227575}],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[{"left":0.124303,"top":0.685026,"width":0.825942,"height":0.227575}]}