Sentences with phrase «definition of a heatwave»
It provided the first national definition of a heatwave in January 2014, describing it as:
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Researchers, including Australian climate scientist Dr Sarah Perkins - Kirkpatrick, are trying to standardise the definitions of «heatwaves» and «hot days» and create a framework that allows for more in - depth studies of these events.
It's not surprising that that is so, of course; by definition the 2003 heatwave is now part of the historical envelope.
In the last 20 years, there have been 6,457 floods, storms, heatwaves, droughts and other climatic events that meet the UN definition of a disaster − that is, they killed people, displaced communities, or caused damage calculated in millions.
A heatwave by definition is a variation over a longer period, i.e. lack of moving weather systems, and a completely different thing.