Sentences with phrase «coastal flooding during»

NOAA reports that so - called «nuisance flooding,» e.g. coastal flooding during king tides, has already increased 300 to 925 percent due to sea level rise to date.

Severe coastal flooding during storms in January and March of this year jolted Massachusetts residents and officials into an unwelcome awareness of just how vulnerable we are to rising sea levels.

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By 2000, coastal roads that had flooded only during major hurricanes were going underwater when high tides coincided with strong southerly winds.

Rising sea levels will, over time, inundate low - lying property and increase the amount of flooding that occurs during coastal storms.

Frisia is the low - lying coastal area that extends across the Netherlands and Germany to the Danish border which, until the construction of canals during the 1920s and 1930s, was flooded for most of the year.

At the EPA, Dr. Carter integrated the effects of climate change into estimates of future coastal inundation on contaminated lands, such as brownfields and superfund sites, to help guide decisions on adaptation efforts that could better protect nearby communities from the spread of dangerous contaminants during future floods.

Damage from extreme weather events during 2017 racked up the biggest - ever bills for the U.S.. Most of these events involved conditions that align intuitively with global warming: heat records, drought, wildfires, coastal flooding, hurricane damage and heavy rainfall.

Rising sea levels will, over time, inundate low - lying property and increase the amount of flooding that occurs during coastal storms.

Scientists are also confident that heating of the deep oceans and melting of land ice will lead to continued sea level rise, which will heighten the risk of coastal flooding and the severity of coastal hazards during stormy episodes.

Rising sea levels intensify coastal flooding and storm surge, and thus exacerbate threats to public safety during storms.

Residents of some coastal cities see their streets flood more regularly during storms and high tides.

A new study by the Wind Energy and Solar Energy Resources Evaluation Centre, run by China's Meteorological Administration, put the near - shore wind resource at 200 GW, at depths of 2 — 25 meters, which are ideal for in - shore and inter-tidal wind farms, the latter being in coastal areas that are submerged during flood tides but exposed during ebb tides.

Updates the number of days during the 2016 meteorological year (May 2016 — April 2017) with a minor coastal flood at NOAA tide gauges

As climate change impacts continue to bombard our coastlines, it is obvious that natural environments fare better than highly developed areas during coastal flooding and hurricanes.

Being unforested, oceanic moisture can not penetrate to the Australian continent irrespective of how much moisture there is over the ocean; during the wet season it precipitates in the coastal zones causing floods.

15 Rising Sea Levels During this century rising seas levels are projected to flood low - lying urban areas, coastal estuaries, wetlands, coral reefs, and barrier islands and beaches.