Sentences with phrase «coastal flood plains»

Jochen Hinkel from the Global Climate Forum in Berlin and colleagues have compiled, for the first time, global simulation results on future flood damage to buildings and infrastructure on the world's coastal flood plains.

The study, led by the Berlin - based think - tank Global Climate Forum (GCF) and involving the University of Southampton, presents, for the first time, comprehensive global simulation results on future flood damages to buildings and infrastructure in coastal flood plains.

The dig site — the Prince Creek Formation — is a unit of rock that was deposited on an arctic, coastal flood plain about 69 million years ago.

The thousands of impressions, created on a 180 - meter - long portion of near - coastal flood plain, today pepper a steep mountainside.

The population projections for the LECZ and the coastal flood plain are, to our knowledge, the only quantitative global estimates that account for (i) the faster growth of coastal regions in comparison to the landlocked hinterland and (ii) differential population growth of coastal urban areas as opposed to coastal non-urban areas.

Not exact matches

For example, coastal areas or areas in the flood plain of a river are more likely to experience a natural disaster, whereas areas at higher elevation are at lower risk.

Towns villages and critical infrastructures located on low - lying coastal zones or on flood plains are exposed to surge and flooding.

The president and Congress should cut federal subsidies that keep the price of insurance in some high - risk zones (flood plains, coastal areas threatened by rising seas, and regions prone to wildfires) artificially — and disastrously — low.

The entire coastal plain is flooded in the May 5 image.

A Global Climate Model (GCM) can provide reliable prediction information on scales of around 1000 by 1000 km covering what could be a vastly differing landscape (from very mountainous to flat coastal plains for example) with greatly varying potential for floods, droughts or other extreme events.

For example, restricting development of land in flood plains and in coastal locations affected by hurricane storm surge is an effective adaptation strategy regardless of how climate changes.

Global climate models (ESMs or GCMs) can provide climate information on scales of around 1000 by 1000 km (with grid resolution of 100's of km) covering what could be a vastly differing landscape (from very mountainous to flat coastal plains for example) with greatly varying potential for floods, droughts or other extreme events.

Following the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report of 2001, a hype regarding the future of Himalayan glaciers, flooding of Indo - Gangetic plains and coastal areas and drying of glacially fed rivers has been created.

People living in low - lying coastal zones and flood plains are probably most at risk from climate change impacts in Asia.

The most susceptible populations in these areas were in areas with high levels of poverty, and where large populations had clustered on marginal land such as flood plains or coastal regions in cyclone - prone areas.

For instance, we estimated 189 million people to have been living in the 100 - year flood plain in the year 2000, globally, while Jongman et al. [73] estimated 271 million people exposed to 1 - in -100-year coastal flood events in 2010.

In this context, we develop national projections of the urban and non-urban coastal population on the basis of four environmental and socio - economic scenarios which account for sea - level rise (for the flood plain analysis), population distribution, trends in urbanisation and coastal population growth.

We calculated the population in the flood plain based on the distribution of coastal population per 1 m elevation increment (Table 2) assuming that all land below the computed surge heights belongs to the 100 - year flood plain.

Preferred habitat: wetlands, coastal woods, lowlands, swamp, river terrace, and flood plains + + + + Foliage / winter appearance: evergreen + + + + Soil coloam, clay, tolerates poor drainage nditions: + + + + Light conditions: shade to partial shade + + + + Plant spacing: 4 to 6 feet + + + + Wildlife value: provides cover + + + + Note: slow growing