Sentences with phrase «affect extreme events»

«The Bureau of the American Meteorological Society has now published five reports focused on explaining how climate change may have affected extreme events from 2011 to 2015.

This shift in the distribution obviously affects extreme events, and there is no reason to think that the next 40 years won't see another degree in these areas with a continuation of current trends in GHGs.

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These linkages will allow insights on how extreme changes could affect environmental boundaries and critical threshold events of vulnerable organisms.

«This really is a historical climate event affecting our region,» he said, calling conditions «extreme and exceptional.»

Further, such extreme events will affect other species in the region, which have long existed under more predictable weather regimes.

«Being able to predict how and when these extreme events will affect ecosystems, and identify management practices that can help reduce the impacts, has become a high priority,» Silliman said.

He just completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Maryland, where he studied how the increase in extreme weather events due to climate change is affecting people's health.

Human - induced climate change, which affects temperature, precipitation and the nature of extreme events, is increasingly driving biodiversity loss and the reduction of nature's contributions to people, worsening the impact of habitat degradation, pollution, invasive species and the overexploitation of natural resources.»

This means that most extreme events adversely affect fractal scaling.

Fluctuations in extreme weather events, such as heavy rains and droughts, are affecting ecosystems in unexpected ways — creating «winners and losers» among plant species that humans depend upon for food.

For such extreme events, the GFZ has a task force called HART (Hazard and Risk Team) that will travel to the area affected to conduct further studies.

Now the scientific community is faced with a new question: asking not whether humans affect extreme weather events, but assuming they do and instead questioning the extent of their impact.

But because high - quality weather records go back only about 100 years, most scientists have been reluctant to say if global warming affected particular extreme events.

Extreme weather events like Harvey are expected to become more likely as Earth's climate changes due to greenhouse gas emissions, and scientists don't understand how extreme weather will impact invasive pests, pollinators and other species that affect human well - being.

Under the Obama administration, climate change has been on the Department of Defense's radar from how it affects national security to how military installations around the world should prepare for climate impacts, like sea level rise at naval bases, melting permafrost in the Arctic and more extreme rainfall events around the world.

Air and water temperatures, precipitation patterns, extreme rainfall events, and seasonal variations are all known to affect disease transmission.59, 199,86 In the United States, children and the elderly are most vulnerable to serious outcomes, and those exposed to inadequately or untreated groundwater will be among those most affected.

The important thing for DOD to look at, though, will be how increasingly common extreme weather events affect training and mission effectiveness on the ground.

Neither case allows planners to project extreme weather events or long - term trends that can affect everything from crops to building codes.

And extreme climatic events will become more common, such as the wheat harvest failure in Russia in 2010 which affected UK food prices.

Because these events affect every aspect of our society, decision makers and stakeholders are increasingly in need of historical evaluations of extreme events and how they are changing from seasons to centuries.

Drawing from both social psychology and climate science, the new model investigates how human behavioral changes evolve in response to extreme climate events and affect global temperature change.

Over the last five years, the BAMS report has examined more than 100 events as part of a burgeoning sub-field of climate science that uses observations and climate models to show how human - caused warming has already affected the odds or severity of many of the weather extremes we experience now.

For individual extreme weather events there are three possible ways climate change can affect the likelihood of the event:

The most diverse and long - lasting effects of extreme events are expected to affect forest ecosystems.

The event is giving pupils the opportunity to learn about the issues faced by many children around the world trying to access an education while living in zones affected by conflict, natural disasters or extreme poverty, and who lack the basic tools and teachers they need to learn.

In the event of financial turmoil affecting the banking system and financial markets, additional consolidation of the financial services industry, or significant financial service institution failures, there could be tightening in the credit markets, low liquidity and extreme volatility in fixed income, credit, currency and equity markets.

The following are common characteristics of gifted children, although not all will necessarily apply to every gifted child: • Has an extensive and detailed memory, particularly in a specific area of interest • Has advanced vocabulary for his or her age; uses precocious language • Has communication skills advanced for his or her age and is able to express ideas and feelings • Asks intelligent and complex questions • Is able to identify the important characteristics of new concepts and problems • Learns information quickly • Uses logic in arriving at common sense answers • Has a broad base of knowledge; a large quantity of information • Understands abstract ideas and complex concepts • Uses analogical thinking, problem solving, or reasoning • Observes relationships and sees connections • Finds and solves difficult and unusual problems • Understands principles, forms generalizations, and uses them in new situations • Wants to learn and is curious • Works conscientiously and has a high degree of concentration in areas of interest • Understands and uses various symbol systems • Is reflective about learning • Is enraptured by a specific subject • Has reading comprehension skills advanced for his or her age • Has advanced writing abilities for his or her age • Has strong artistic or musical abilities • Concentrates intensely for long periods of time, particularly in a specific area of interest • Is more aware, stimulated, and affected by surroundings • Experiences extreme positive or negative feelings • Experiences a strong physical reaction to emotion • Has a strong affective memory, re-living or re-feeling things long after the triggering event

One in 4 children experiences a mental health disorder annually, 73 and half of those who will have a mental health disorder at some point in their life will first be diagnosed at age 14 or younger.74 Furthermore, about half of all children will experience a traumatic event — such as the death of a parent, violence, or extreme poverty — before they reach adulthood.75 And as the opioid epidemic continues to grow, students are coming to school affected by a parent's addiction as well as the havoc and instability that it can wreak on family life.76 In addition, as students experience other issues — such as puberty; family matters, like divorce; and bullying — having supportive trained adults to talk to in school is critical for improving their well - being and attention to learning.

His work from the last 25 years has explored how events of extreme physical and psychological violence affect bodies, minds, and culture.

Distinguishing between different kinds of extreme weather events is important because the risks of different kinds of events are affected by climate change in different ways.

There has been an ongoing debate, both in and outside the scientific community, whether rapid climate change in the Arctic might affect circulation patterns in the mid-latitudes, and thereby possibly the frequency or intensity of extreme weather events.

Having said that... I remember hearing that analysis of two recent extreme events that affected the UK, [September 2000 floods and 2004 heatwave] shows that these were extreme events an increased risk of which would be consistent with global warming.

Given than attitudes to climate change are often held as part of a political identity, we can not be surprised if people in a politically left leaning area (and much of the affected area is strongly Democrat) are prepared to ascribe extreme weather events to climate change.

The first thorough federal review of research on how global warming may affect extreme climate events in North America forecasts more drenching rains, parching droughts (especially in the Southwest), intense heat waves and stronger hurricanes if long - lived greenhouse gases continue building in the atmosphere.

Changes in extreme events affect systems differentially, because different thresholds are crossed.

Much climate - related damage results from extreme weather events and could be affected by changes in the frequency and intensity of these events due to climate change.

«Climate change will affect our agricultural productivity, our forests, fisheries, the types of pests and diseases we face, the frequency of extreme weather events, and even our capacity to generate hydroelectricity ---- and policymakers must make decisions in the face of all of these.»

In the Northeast, «Communities are affected by heat waves, more extreme precipitation events, and coastal flooding due to sea level rise and storm surge,» for example, while in the Southeast and Caribbean, «Decreased water availability, exacerbated by population growth and land - use change, causes increased competition for water.

«And extreme climatic events will become more common, such as the wheat harvest failure in Russia in 2010 which affected UK food prices.

The project primarily focuses on extreme weather and sea level events that affect the design principles of the power plants and might pose external threats to the plants.

People affected by an extreme weather event (e.g., the extremely hot summer in Europe in 2003, or the heavy rainfall in Mumbai, India in July 2005) often ask whether human influences on the climate are responsible for the event.

However, it is still unclear how a decline in long - term variability could affect the frequency of extreme weather events, she adds.

On another page, entitled «Impacts of Climate Change», the Met Office states: «Higher temperatures, fresh water shortages, higher sea levels and extreme weather events will each affect regions differently.

The researchers noted how many extreme weather events had occurred in a respondent's region in the recent past, and examined whether such events affected opinions on relevant mitigation policies (such as whether they were more likely to support coastal building restrictions after a hurricane).

Stormwater runoff that overloads urban sewer systems during extreme events adds to increased levels of toxic substances, sewage, and bacteria in the Great Lakes, affecting water quality, beach health, and human well - being.

(VIDEO) Visualizing data makes it easier to understand exactly how an extreme weather event affected people's lives, livelihoods, and property and how those things could be affected in the future.

The atmospheric and ocean environment has changed from human activities in ways that affect storms and extreme climate events.

Mental illness is one of the major causes of suffering in the United States, and extreme weather events can affect mental health in several ways.113, 223,114,115,116 First, following disasters, mental health problems increase, both among people with no history of mental illness, and those at risk — a phenomenon known as «common reactions to abnormal events.»

Air and water temperatures, precipitation patterns, extreme rainfall events, and seasonal variations are all known to affect disease transmission.59, 199,86 In the United States, children and the elderly are most vulnerable to serious outcomes, and those exposed to inadequately or untreated groundwater will be among those most affected.

In 2011, 11 of the 14 U.S. weather - related disasters with damages of more than $ 1 billion affected the Midwest.115 Several types of extreme weather events have already increased in frequency and / or intensity due to climate change, and further increases are projected (Ch.