SE Asian flood

Theme and specification link

This resource looks at the causes and effects of extreme weather events using the devastating flooding in SE Asia as an example.  

The link to the article can be found here: https://bit.ly/3KEhjaf.

This article underpins many aspects of the water cycle, extreme weather, climate change and drainage basin systems within the A Level specifications specifically: 

AQA
3.1.1.2c Drainage basins as open systems
3.1.1.2e Changes in the water cycle over time to include natural variation including storm events, seasonal changes and human impact including farming practices, land use change and water abstraction.
3.1.1.6b Case study of a river catchment(s) at a local scale…consider the impact of precipitation upon drainage basin stores and transfers and implications for sustainable water supply and/or flooding.
3.1.5.5 Storm hazards.
3.1.2.2f Sources of water: exogenous, endoreic and ephemeral; the episodic role of water; sheet flooding, channel flash flooding.

Edexcel
2B.9 Coastal flooding is a significant and increasing risk for some coastlines.
5.5 Surpluses within the hydrological cycle can lead to flooding, with significant impacts for people.
5.6 Climate change may have significant impacts on the hydrological cycle globally and locally.
6.9b b. Adaptation strategies for a changed climate (water conservation and management, resilient agricultural systems, land-use planning, flood-risk management) have different costs and risks.

OCR
3.a. Human factors can disturb and enhance the natural processes and stores in the water and carbon cycles.
3.b.i. How climate change is leading to increasing frequency of extreme weather events such as wild-fire, El-Nino, floods, and drought which can affect food production.
4.b. The impacts of climate change are global and dynamic.

Eduqas / WJEC
2.1.2 Catchment hydrology – the drainage basin as a system. 
(2)3.1.3 Temporal variations in river discharge.
(2)3.1.4 Precipitation and excess runoff within the water cycle.
(3)4.5.4 Extreme weather events.
(3)4.5.5 Impacts and management of climatic hazards.
(3)4.5.7 People, climate and the future.