Sentences with phrase «during extreme events»

For example, a key uncertainty is how systems will respond during extreme events and how people will adjust their short - to long - term planning to take account of a dynamic climate.

Such would have been the case especially during extreme events like the exceptionally cold Arctic winter of 2010 - 2011.

Stormwater runoff that overloads urban sewer systems during extreme events adds to increased levels of toxic substances, sewage, and bacteria in the Great Lakes, affecting water quality, beach health, and human well - being.

Yet many U.S. hospitals lack the very equipment and protocols that can make their buildings, staff and patients more climate - resilient, especially during extreme events that disrupt grid - delivered power supplies.

It also allows people to report flooding during extreme events like the fall king tides, said Susan Jacobson, a journalism professor at FIU who helped develop the program.

Furthermore, if public infrastructure — like communication systems or emergency response services — is damaged during an extreme event, access to lifesaving care is jeopardized.

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More customers than ever before are shopping online, and they have a tendency to do even more online purchasing during extreme weather events, such as blizzards or flooding, says Sarah Quinlan, senior vice president of market insights for MasterCard International.

An Analysis of Stocks, Bonds and Gold», Dirk Baur and Brian Lucey examine the hedging / haven behavior of gold for stocks and bonds during normal market conditions and during extreme market events.

Environment secretary faces calls for his resignation, as Green campaigners warn that a climate change sceptic should not be in post during extreme weather events

«Today we have unsealed a nine - count indictment that outlines a pattern of self - dealing and corruption that spans decades and covers several events, including the defendant's failed bid to become the Brooklyn District Attorney,» U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Loretta Lynch said during a press conference announcing the charges, where she described Mr. Sampson's alleged conduct as «one of the most extreme examples of political hubris that we have yet seen.»

The study's findings showed that volatile elements undergo the same chemical reactions during extreme temperature and pressure events whether taking place on Earth or in outer space.

But in mountain channels, the sediment that makes up the bed of the river very rarely moves except during extreme flood events.

New Scientist has received photographs from Guam showing this dramatic effect (see photos above and below), only seen during extreme El Niño events.

«Our study explains why cities suffer even more during extreme heat events and highlights the heat risks that urban residents face now and in the projected future.»

«We believe this first study of rogue waves occurring over space and time during hurricanes will help improve real - time forecasting for shipping companies and other organizations that need to understand the risk of extreme events in the oceans.»

«What we found is that during several recent extreme weather events these planetary waves almost freeze in their tracks for weeks.

Storms also a question mark The attribution studies also looked into storms and rainfall extremes, but the complexity of atmospheric processes during such events made it difficult for scientists to decipher the role of climate change.

Researchers observed a 23 % increase in risk of asthma hospitalizations when there was an extreme heat event during summer months.

Our study shows is that increases in the number of extreme heat and extreme precipitation events, particularly during summer months, lead to more asthma hospitalizations in Maryland.»

Similarly, extreme precipitation events during summer months increased the risk of asthma hospitalizations by 11 %.

Dr Stephen Grimes of Plymouth University, who initiated the research project, highlighted the climate changes that must have caused this increase in sediment erosion and transport — «We have climate model simulations of the effect of warming on rainfall during the PETM event, and they show some changes in the average amounts of rainfall, but the largest change is how this rainfall is packaged up — it's concentrated in more rapid, extreme events — larger and bigger storms.»

Scientists suspect these bursts occur during extreme celestial events like neutron star collisions, but the jury is still out pending further GLAST observations.

As extreme weather events likely connected to the planet's warming climate become increasingly common, low - income communities are positioned to suffer the worst consequences during the aftermath of natural disasters, write the authors of a report from the Center for American Progress called «One Storm Shy of Despair.»

The idea is that excess precipitation gets channeled to the tunnel network during extreme rain events and can later be pumped out into streams and rivers at a leisurely pace.

The role played by biodiversity in the ability of ecosystems to continue functioning during extreme weather events, which are increasingly frequent as a result of climate change, remains poorly understood.

For instance, during extreme weather events, sewage pipes overflow with added storm water runoff, resulting in wastewater dumping into local bodies of water or the ocean.

Trends in extreme events during the past decade constitute a facet of climate change that requires rigorous detection and attribution.

A study recently published in Nature suggests that an extreme global warming event 56 million years ago known as the Palaeocene - Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) was driven by massive CO2 emissions from volcanoes during the formation of the North Atlantic Ocean.

One of the extreme events, which has mystified scientists for long, took place 717 million years ago and is called «snowball Earth» — the largest glaciation event in history during which the planet was covered almost entirely in ice.

«The impacts of sea level change will be felt most acutely during periods of high sea level, both from this type of interannual (and decadal) variability as well as extreme events,» Church said.

The agency is now planning to test VLF transmissions in the upper atmosphere to determine whether or not they can successfully remove the excess charged particles that often appear during extreme space weather events — particles that could disrupt radio waves and / or the power grid, The Atlantic said.

During this stakeholder workshop, participants will share their opinions and insights on how extreme event risk assessments could be further developed for comprehensive risk -LSB-...]

Among the key new features in Ice Cream Sandwich and the Galaxy Nexus is Face Unlock, which uses facial recognition to unlock  the phone using the front facing camera, though it does need to be calibrated and can be thrown off by extreme lighting in practice, as evidenced by last night's failed demo during the launch event in Hong Kong.

They reorder as their supply is used, which can significantly shift the supply - demand dynamic in favor of salt producers during extreme winter weather events — CMP's average price on awarded highway deicing contracts rose by 25 % in 2014 as a result.

I agree to indemnify and hold KHS harmless for any damages caused during the transportation of the animal, or for any damages caused by any unforeseeable events including fire, vandalism, burglary, extreme weather, natural disasters or acts of God.

It was also revealed during the Yakuza 6 event that the remake would undergo an «extreme localization» for western players.

Namely, they lived during the modern age of extremes and catastrophe that encompassed — among other terrible historical events — two World Wars, the Great Depression, the Spanish Civil War, atomic devastation and the ensuing Cold War.

associated mid-latitude extreme weather events during winter.

Also I seem to remember that old forests adapt better to extreme events than young forests; young forests (especially during the first ten years of life) tend to seqester very little carbon during drougts, floods and so on.

Heat waves and bushfires are common during Australia's hot summer months, but climate change is worsening the underlying conditions that fuel the most extreme heat and wildfire events.

Heat waves, extreme precipitation events and flooding or extreme droughts, are also what actually cause climate damage — for instance lower agricultural productivity (as during the extremely hot 2003 summer in Western Europe) or biodiversity decline at ecosystem levels ranging from aquatic desert systems to entire rainforest biomes.

The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District has an ambitious plan to scale up green infrastructure, using green roofs, land conservation, permeable pavement and other approaches to help slow and absorb water during the extreme precipitation events that are becoming more common with climate change.

Because most AOGCMs have coarse resolution and large - scale systematic errors, and extreme events tend to be short lived and have smaller spatial scales, it is somewhat surprising how well the models simulate the statistics of extreme events in the current climate, including the trends during the 20th century (see Chapter 9 for more detail).

COP21 climate forecast: World is set to experience a whole range of extreme weather events during Paris climate negotiations.

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.

«Fuel - free resources like wind and demand response have proven valuable during extreme weather events,» Chen said.

Older people are at much higher risk of dying during extreme heat events.136, 50,241,233 Pre-existing health conditions also make older adults susceptible to cardiac and respiratory impacts of air pollution25 and to more severe consequences from infectious diseases; 257 limited mobility among older adults can also increase flood - related health risks.258 Limited resources and an already high burden of chronic health conditions, including heart disease, obesity, and diabetes, will place the poor at higher risk of health impacts from climate change than higher income groups.25, 50 Potential increases in food cost and limited availability of some foods will exacerbate current dietary inequalities and have significant health ramifications for the poorer segments of our population (Ch.

While not all urban areas within the Midwest have combined sewers for delivery to wastewater treatment plants, many do (for example, Chicago and Milwaukee), and such systems are vulnerable to combined sewer overflows during extreme precipitation events.

Another analysis by the National Centers for Environmental Information found 2017 marked the first time there were five separate billion - dollar extreme weather events during the first three months of a year, including a crop - killing freeze in the Southeast.

Whilst EURO4M provides time series showing the changes in climate over time, the project also enables to report in near - real - time during emerging extreme events.