Sentences with phrase «also increasing waves»

Bangladeshi cities do not only have to face difficult climate conditions, but also increasing waves of urban migration and the problems associated with that.

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These companies are also riding a wave of global brand awareness, thanks to increased international travel and the powerful reach of the Web.
China's online retail boom also began with increased Internet use, followed by the first wave of Internet companies, which had to jump market hurdles, such as immature electronic - payment systems.
He also called the waves of protests in the wake of Garner's death «peaceful» despite increasing confrontations between police and marchers.
Alpha waves increase in power when a person shifts his or her consciousness of the external world to internal thoughts; they also are the key brainwave signatures of sleep.
Global warming is causing not only a general increase in temperatures, but also an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, such as flooding, heat waves and droughts.
Researchers also found that the West has experienced more frequent and severe heat waves, with the number of extremely hot days increasing by up to four days per decade since 1950.
Because particles also behave like waves, they are smeared out over a distance that decreases with increasing energy — at LHC energies, about 1019 meter.
Second, the mice also showed dramatic increases in brief (lasting 2 - 3 seconds) bouts of abnormal brain wave activity.
Across the globe in recent decades, there has been an increase in the number of hot extremes, particularly very warm nights.1 Hot days have also been hotter and more frequent.2 Since 1950 the number of heat waves has increased and heat waves have become longer.3
Increasing atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide do not only cause global warming, but probably also trigger increased occurrences of extreme weather events such as long - lasting droughts, heat - waves, heavy rainfall events or extreme storms.
One group of men who were given wave therapy also saw an increase in plasma levels of testosterone, and a decrease in the stress hormone cortisol.
Exercise and strength training has also been shown to increase peristalsis (wave like muscles contractions that move stool through the bowels) in the gut and generally improve whole bowel transit (4).
It also increases dopamine and the production of alpha waves in the brain (7, 8, 9).
Transformers: War for Cybertron takes players to the final moments of the grand civil war that will determine the survival of the entire Transformers race. Fans will be able to explore the Transformers war - ravaged home planet in full 3D environments for the first time, armed with a diverse arsenal of high - tech weaponry and the ability to convert instantly from robot to vehicle form at any time as they engage in heart - pounding battles on land and in the air in this gripping, third - person action shooter. Complete with several multiplayer modes,  Transformers: War for Cybertron allows gamers to play through story missions with their friends in drop in / drop out online co-op, and also create their own Transformers character for competitive head - to - head multiplayer modes, choosing among four distinct character classes, personalizing their characterâ $ ™ s look and selecting from a huge variety of weapons, skills and abilities. Additionally, the game introduces Escalation, a four - player online co-op mode that allows gamers to fight together as their favorite Autobots or Decepticons against increasing waves of enemies utilizing strong teamwork to survive.
Even though there is a big wave of appreciation towards BYOD, there are also voices proving that it disturbs the educational environment and even contributes to the idea that education is not worthy of increased investment.
Sir David also described a shift in the nature of free school applications, hinting at an increase in bids to open alternative provision (AP) free schools in wave 11, which closed last week.
Starting off at Green Bowls to find wave height a solid over head to double head high plus but also by this time the wind had turned more to the SSW and increased to 4 - 7knot.
There is an onslaught mode for those wanting an ever increasing wave style of game play, and also a versus mode.
Similar negative effects occur with worsening air pollution — higher levels of ground - level ozone smog and other pollutants that increase with warmer temperatures have been directly linked with increased rates of respiratory and cardiovascular disease — food production and safety — warmer temperatures and varying rainfall patterns mess up staple crop yields and aid the migration and breeding of pests that can devastate crops — flooding — as rising sea levels make coastal areas and densely - populated river deltas more susceptible to storm surges and flooding that result from severe weather — and wildfires, which can be ancillary to increased heat waves and are also responsible for poor air quality (not to mention burning people's homes and crops).
Springtime cold air outbreaks (at least two consecutive days during which the daily average surface air temperature is below 95 % of the simulated average wintertime surface air temperature) are projected to continue to occur throughout this century.19 As a result, increased productivity of some crops due to higher temperatures, longer growing seasons, and elevated CO2 concentrations could be offset by increased freeze damage.20 Heat waves during pollination of field crops such as corn and soybean also reduce yields (Figure 18.3).4 Wetter springs may reduce crop yields and profits, 21 especially if growers are forced to switch to late - planted, shorter - season varieties.
Deaths result from heat stroke and related conditions, 134,135,136,166,167 but also from cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, and cerebrovascular disease.50, 51 Heat waves are also associated with increased hospital admissions for cardiovascular, kidney, and respiratory disorders.51, 168,52,53,54 Extreme summer heat is increasing in the United States (Ch.
With less attempts at precision, the report also pointed out that an increase in extreme summer temperatures would worsen the «excess human death and illness» that came with heat waves.
A weaker AMOC could also increase summer heat waves.
On the East Coast, a yet - to - be-published study also has showed that average wave heights have been increasing, by a couple of centimeters or so a year.
This is caused not only by increasing drought and direct (summer) heat stress, but also by increasing weather extremes (heat waves, storms, floods) and climate - induced plagues.
Those two companies manufactured fossil fuels that have contributed to global warming and thereby increased the number and severity of wildfires, droughts, and flash flooding, while also worsening air quality, harming forest health, and increasing mortality from heat waves.
Increase wave action, especially when there's no thick ice to dampen the waves, flooding floes with saltier water that melts the ice, but can also temporarily fool satellite sensors into thinking there's open water.
Decreases in air quality during heat waves, for example, can worsen the effects of respiratory illnesses and heart disease; high temperatures also increase the risk of heat stress.
Their findings also suggest that amplified quasistationary waves with these wave numbers increased the probabilities of extreme weather events over the NH midlatitudes.
That has also led to increased wave heights during extreme weather conditions, with levels off the Irish coast increasing 25 millimeters (1 inch) per year during the past 70 years, representing an average increase of 1.7 meters (5.6 feet).
The risk of disruptive events will also increase in the future as droughts, heat waves, more intense storms, and increasingly severe wildfires become more frequent due to global warming — increasing the need for resilient, clean technologies.
Better metocean characterization of the wind, wave, and ocean currents will also help increase certainty of development conditions which is valuable information for planning project layout, turbine siting and engineering.
This also means there is nothing remotely inconsistent in claiming on the one hand a cold weather event is not evidence of a not - warming or cooling climate and at the same time saying that the increased incidence and severity of heat wave weather events are consistent with and, indeed, anticipated by a warming climate.
The changing climate also increases health risks, the most deadly being a rise in the frequency and severity of heat waves.
The loss of sea ice also means more of the Arctic coast is battered by storm waves, increasing erosion and driving some native communities to move.
«Heat wave incidents are also increasing and temperature records are frequently breaking.
The paper also adds important theoretical support to the research published in 2012 by Dr. Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University, which found that the amplitude of Earth's planetary waves had increased by over 100 miles (161 km) in summer over the past decade in the Northern Hemisphere.
Hotter temperatures also pose threats directly to human health, including more heat waves, worsening air and water quality, and increases in infectious diseases.
There has also been a dramatic increase in nighttime temperatures in the US, reducing the number of critically important relief windows during heat waves.
Intensified heat waves, droughts, and other weather extremes would also bring increased danger to affected areas.
The number of heat waves (extended periods of extremely hot weather) also has been increasing over the past fifty years... However, the heat waves of the 1930s remain the most severe in the U.S. historical record...»
This is particularly important given the prospect of increased risk of power outages during heat waves — as we saw in western France a few weeks ago... Yes, we need to keep doing all that — and doing it better — but we should also be thinking about incorporating efficient mechanical cooling systems.
They also find that so far, mean wave heights for their study region are not increasing — though there is a weak indication that storms may be increasing in wave intensity.
The follow - up study to this work relates heat waves globally to changes in soil moisture.One theoretical consequence of the CO2 - warming hypothesis is that increases in atmospheric humidity will greatly amplify the warming signal due to CO2 alone and will also amplify extremes.
Increased frequency of droughts, heat waves, and water scarcity are all predicted for the region, where low - lying areas — including 43 port cities — could also face coastal flooding with a global temperature rise of as little as 1 degree.
For example, the resilience work will include climate adaptation - specific goals (e.g., providing reliable access to power during increasing heat waves, or storms), while also supporting carbon neutrality goals (implementing low or no carbon - emitting solutions for those reliable power sources), and it will equally importantly focus on building community capacity to deal with a constantly changing climate, including changing extremes.
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