Sentences with phrase «severe weather indices»
Severe weather indices only indicate the potential for convection.
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The report for 2012, based on an index of fatalities and economic damage from weather extremes, noted that Haiti was struck by Hurricane Sandy, the Philippines by typhoon Bopha and Pakistan had suffered severe monsoon floods.
Pakistan Today: Despite severe flooding in 2011, Pakistan managed to drop itself from first last year, to third position this year in the league table for countries that were worst hit by extreme weather events in 2011, according to a «climate risk index 2013» published here on Tuesday.
A study using a regional climate model and the same indices of significant severe thunderstorms as have been used to diagnose their patterns in the current climate finds that, especially in the central and eastern United States (the preferred locations for severe weather anywhere in the world), we can expect a few more days per month with conditions favorable to severe thunderstorm occurrence in a doubled CO2 climate [12](Fig. 5).
Severe weather stability indices can be a useful tool when applied correctly to a given convective weather situation.
The Philippines was ranked as the country in 2012 with the second most severe weather - related disasters, after Haiti, according to a risk index released last week by the Germanwatch at the United Nations climate change summit in Warsaw.
Here is the formula for the «SEVERE WEATHER THREAT» index, used by forecasters to «parameterize» the likelihood of severe thundersSEVERE WEATHER THREAT» index, used by forecasters to «parameterize» the likelihood of severe thunderssevere thunderstorms:
Recent boreal winters have exhibited a large - scale seesaw temperature pattern characterized by an unusually warm Arctic and cold continents... Using a recently developed index of severe winter weather, we show that the occurrence of severe winter weather in the United States is significantly related to anomalies in pan-Arctic geopotential heights and temperatures.
Using a recently developed index of severe winter weather, we show that the occurrence of severe winter weather in the United States is significantly related to anomalies in pan-Arctic geopotential heights and temperatures.