Sentences with phrase «extreme rain events»

The study, by British and American scientists, found that the observed peaks in extreme rain events are about twice as high as what global climate simulations produce.

They estimate that there has been a (roughly) 18 - percent increase in the intensity of extreme rain events along this stretch of the Gulf Coast since the late 1800s.

Second, the combination of aging sewer infrastructure and an increase in stormwater flooding with extreme rain events increases the likelihood of more spills occurring and continuing to spread these dangerous, drug - resistant bacteria in populated areas.

The idea is that excess precipitation gets channeled to the tunnel network during extreme rain events and can later be pumped out into streams and rivers at a leisurely pace.

With more extreme rain events likely, and higher sea levels, the future is likely to hold many more scenes such as this image of the 2007 flooding in Bangladesh.

In late December to early January, southern California also experienced particularly extreme rain events that induced flash floods and mudslides.

The report also predicts extreme rain events could pollute lakes and streams due to nutrient run - off, noting that a heavy rainfall in 2012 combined with a particularly warm year fueled a massive algae bloom in Lake Auburn.

Breck wrote on his blog at the time that «Before the Global Warming folks jump on our recent extreme rain event» they needed to look at the issue of urbanization, writing «Man building and paving over previous fields that soaked up the rains.

Rainfall during the cooler seasons will decrease in southern Australia while extreme rain events will become more common, particularly in the tropics.

what and how many extreme rain events have their been in the last 250 million years... yr a dckhead - and they made you a professor - wot out of a fckn cornflake packet?

Our analysis of cities and metro areas, on the other hand, reveals the highly localized and random nature of extreme rain events and the difficulty of detecting these events even with 3,000 rain gauges across the country.

In extreme rain events, sediment and associated pollution have already been shown to flow out to sea in a pulse reaching as far out as 100 kilometers (62 miles) that can be seen from space, said Richmond.

This has delivered increased sediment to Mugu Lagoon and flooding during extreme rain events.

In addition to the cascade of climate impacts from this global warming — rising sea level, more extreme rain events, insect pest population explosions, increasing coral bleaching — the extra carbon dioxide is also changing the pH of the ocean.

Since 2002, Denmark's challenge in dealing with extreme rain events has meant that many urban areas have been immersed in water following heavy rainfall.

Growers can manage the potential risks linked to extreme rain events and soil degradation by using adaptive strategies such as planting cover crops, using no - till techniques, increasing the biodiversity of grasses and forage and extending crop rotations, Prokopy said.

The 2010 weather shocks are associated with not only an increase in the number of dengue cases but also with a decrease in its incidence (particularly in the presence of extreme rain events).

These include increased average land and ocean temperatures that lead to reduced snowpack levels, hydrological changes, and sea level rise; changing precipitation patterns that will create both drought and extreme rain events; and increasing atmospheric CO2 that will contribute to ocean acidification, changes in species composition, and increased risk of fires.

Droughts will be worse and extreme rain events will be more frequent or more damaging.

Yes, climate change has many more aspects than just warming — the most concerning to me is the suite of alternations to hydrology, that is, the increase in droughts in some regions, increased precipitation in others, and an overall rise in the probability of extreme rain events.