Sentences with phrase «coastal zones»

An independent agent in the Trusted Choice network can provide the guidance you need, particularly if you live in one of the coastal zones most vulnerable to hurricane damage.

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.

Worldwide, around 1 billion people live in low - lying coastal zones, and an estimated 180 million are at risk.

Ice storms are occurring even in coastal zones with oceans that are at record warm temperatures.

With this methodology, the factors most often mentioned as risks of negative or unintended consequences are a.) employing it too near coastal zones afflicted with toxic algal species, and b.) pushing beyond literal «restoration» activities to seed unprecedented concentrations of new plankton growth.

Oceans and coastal zones, the things I know best, have been far warmer and colder than is projected in the present scenarios of climate change.

The model evaluates the impacts on agriculture, forestry, energy, water, unmanaged ecosystems, coastal zones, heat and cold deaths and disease.

Coastal Zones: The likely costs for protecting coastal zones from storm activity and sea level rise are probably three times greater than the UN estimate of $ 11 billion.

To mitigate these problems, ICPAC's marine, coastal / aquatic sector has a goal of: enhancing the application of climate information and prediction products for early warning of climate related marine hazards and integrated planning, and management of coastal zones and wetlands resources

Improving the level of preparedness in marine and coastal zones to respond to climate related threats such as tropical cyclones (TC), pollution etc through Risk / Vulnerability mapping and zoning of marine and coastal resources for the GHA countries.

However, coastal zones, marine and wetland areas are vulnerable to climate related hazards such as storms including tropical cyclones / hurricanes; waves and storm surges, tsunamis, river flooding, shoreline erosion, and influx of biohazards such as algal blooms and pollutants.

Provision Climate information for exploitation of coastal, aquatic resources through increased observation and monitoring in support of coastal zones, marine / aquatic resources.

The UNFCCC secretariat and the expert group on Technology Transfer carried out an extensive review of adaptation technologies and assessed their possibilities in five sectors: coastal zones, water resources, agriculture, public health and infrastructure.

The impact assessments cover: agriculture and forestry, natural terrestrial ecosystems, hydrology and water resources, human settlement and socioeconomic activities, oceans and coastal zones and the cryosphere.

Batches of sand from a beach on the Delaware Bay are yielding insights into the powerful impact of temperature rise and evaporation along the shore that are in turn challenging long - held assumptions about what causes beach salinity to fluctuate in coastal zones that support a rich network of sea creatures and plants.

Elsewhere researchers concluded that in addition to atmospheric pH, the complex interactions controlling pH especially in coastal zones, make detection of any trends towards acidification «not trivial and the attribution of these changes to anthropogenic CO2 emissions is even more problematic.»

Much of the Northeast landscape is dominated by forest, but the region also has grasslands, coastal zones, beaches and dunes, and wetlands, and it is known for its rich marine and freshwater fisheries.

Wind farms in hurricane - prone coastal zones are frequently designed to withstand hurricane - force winds, up to level Category 3 hurricanes.

Living Estuaries Estuaries, the vital coastal zones where rivers and streams meet the oceans.

-- High exposure of people, economic activity, and infrastructure in low lying coastal zones and Small Island Developing States (SIDS).

Adaptations employ a diverse portfolio of planning and practices that combine subsets of • Infrastructure and asset development • Technological process optimization • Institutional and behavioral change or reinforcement • Integrated natural resources management (such as for watersheds and coastal zones) • Financial services, including risk transfer • Information systems to support early warning and proactive planning Although approaches vary according to context and the level of government, there are two general approaches observed in adaptation planning and implementation to date: top - down and bottom - up.

-- Loss of common pool resources, sense of place, and identity, especially among indigenous populations in rural coastal zones.

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

«Some of the key statistics regarding water, soil, urban areas and coastal zones are outlined below....

We report the results of simulations using a coupled ocean - atmosphere vector radiative transfer code (NASA GISS) to obtain the polarized reflectance for various water compositions typical for coastal zones, as function of wavelength and sun / sensor geometry.

It seems doubtful that we can defend all of the many coastal zones that will be at risk.

The final result has confused users and scientists alike and confounded the application of AR4 sea level rise scenarios to subsequent assessments of risk to coastal zones around the world for years.

It argues that investments should start with low - regret options, with measures that tackle the weather risks that countries already face, such as increased investment in water storage in drought - prone basins or protection against storms and flooding in coastal zones and / or urban areas.

This analytical report identifies expected climate change risks for Trinidad and Tobago generally and by their potential impacts on six priority sectors, namely agriculture, human health, human settlements, coastal zones, water resources and energy.

One does not need an enormous ice sheet for sea level to be high, chiefly because the Earth's coastal zones and ocean basins may be more porous and capacious than one would imagine.

Likewise, Texas, Rhode Island, Maine, and South Carolina's coastal zones all benefit from a degree of rolling setbacks, a policy akin to managed retreat that allows private coastal property owners to develop their land, but prohibits the erection of seawalls and barriers once sea levels begin to threaten the structures.

While present and future climate changes pose serious threats to our coastal zones and resources, Surfrider's current beach health indicators do not completely measure environmental quality or assess the status of coastal management in light of climate change impacts.

These are available in cold - water coastal zones and apparently only need warming up a little to extract the methane.

Local sea level rise and extreme events can have significant impacts on coastal zones.

Sea level rise is just one major climate change related issue of global significance, although combined with storm surges could be judged the most serious for coastal zones — obviously.

12: Indigenous Peoples for examples of health impacts on vulnerable populations) and of place (floodplains, coastal zones, and urban areas), as well as the resilience of critical public health infrastructure.

Sea level rise is just one major climate change related issue of global significance, although combined with storm surges could be judged the most serious for coastal zones

«The colliding forces of human fertility, submerging coastal zones, residential retreat, and impediments to inland resettlement are a huge problem,» said Charles Geisler, professor emeritus of development sociology at Cornell University, in New York state.

In 2000, around 630 million people lived in low - lying coastal zones.

The climate community did a great service to the country in 2006 in putting out a joint statement on the enormous human vulnerability in coastal zones to hurricanes — setting aside questions about the role of greenhouse - driven warming in changing hurricane patterns.

Re: Australia pop density, big country; but everyone crowds the coastal zones making them pretty crowded as well.

In environmental science, it will require strengthening our weather forecasting, our Earth observation from space, the management of our nation's land, water and forests, and the stewardship of our coastal zones and ocean fisheries.

There are some 3,351 cities in low lying coastal zones around the world.

UCD several decades ago developed a heat summation formula for suitability of coastal zones for wine growing, it is a complex calculation which counts number of days over 50 degrees Fahrenheit; and it intercalculates with the length of growing season from budbreak to first frost.

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

# 122 Phil «The Satellite data doesn't cover any of the antarctic continent» Apart from unquestionably the majority of the outer coastal zones (i.e. from 70S) http://maps.grida.no/go/graphic/antarctica-topographic-map unlike GISS which only extrapolates from a few scattered stations (and a main concentration on the Peninsula).

The eddies also supply nutrients to coastal zones and the surface ocean where plankton blooms may result.

They knew that as soon as Irma passed the coast and the winds switched directions, all of the water slurped out of the coastal zones would be forced back into the bays — and then some.

12: Indigenous Peoples for examples of health impacts on vulnerable populations) and of place (floodplains, coastal zones, and urban areas), as well as the resilience of critical public health infrastructure.

«The evidence suggests that human activities in coastal zones will continue to have an important impact on global carbon cycling,» Bauer said.