Sentences with phrase «extreme events in the future»

Precipitation analysis further suggests that greater than 50 % of the precipitation may be associated with extreme events in the future.

Extreme events, even 30 - year events, challenge weak links, and more extreme events in a future climate challenge these more.

Ignore the global warming spin and any suggestion that we can expect extreme events in the future.

I instead like to focus on mitigation strategies now that would hopefully reduce the probability of extreme events in the future.

Not exact matches

«In order to understand coastal impacts under current and future climate and socio - economic conditions, we do not only need robust projections of mean sea level rise but also a profound knowledge of present - day and future extreme sea levels, because these events drive the impacts,» Wahl said.

Improving projections for how much ocean levels may change in the future and what that means for coastal communities has vexed researchers studying sea level rise for years, but a new international study that incorporates extreme events may have just given researchers and coastal planners what they need.

The study was conducted to make data about extreme events a part of the ongoing research and planning required to help communities prepare now for conditions that may be dramatically different in the not - too - distant future.

«Storm surges globally lead to considerable loss of life and billions of dollars of damages each year, and yet we still have a limited understanding of the likelihood and associated uncertainties of these extreme events both today and in the future,» said Thomas Wahl, an assistant engineering professor in the University of Central Florida who led the study.

For instance, though about 30 percent of farmers surveyed agreed that extreme weather events will become more frequent in the future, 52 percent agreed that farmers should take additional steps to protect their land from increased precipitation.

«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.»

The indications of climate change are all around us today but now researchers have revealed for the first time when and where the first clear signs of global warming appeared in the temperature record and where those signals are likely to be clearly seen in extreme rainfall events in the near future.

Attribution studies are meant to help policymakers understand whether an extreme weather event is likely to repeat in the future.

«In the future, new, giant radio telescopes like FAST (Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope) and SKA (Square Kilometre Array) will allow us to make even more detailed observations of these extreme and exciting events,» concludes Jun Yang.

«We may observe more black swan events in animal populations in the future because of these climate extremes,» he says.

However, in the end it may be beneficial for the trees by reducing the risk of late spring frost damage, since extreme climatic events are projected to increase in future.

Running future simulations in climate models with present - day emissions, Cai and his colleagues find 73 per cent increase in extreme La Niña events in the twenty - first century when compared to the twentieth.

In a separate paper last year, Cai found that extreme El Niño events are also expected to occur more often in the futurIn a separate paper last year, Cai found that extreme El Niño events are also expected to occur more often in the futurin the future.

The study shows that three - quarters of extreme La Niña events in the future will happen in quick succession after an extreme El Niño event.

Daniel Swain and colleagues model how the frequency of these rapid, year - to - year transitions from extreme dry to wet conditions — which they dub «precipitation whiplash events» — may change in California's future as a consequence of man - made warming.

Our scientific understanding of disturbance associated with extreme weather events limits our ability to project landslides, blow downs, ice storms, and other such events in the future.

The analysis also helps decision makers prepare resources needed for population movement in response to future extreme weather events, particularly in the Gulf Coast region.

Climate model projections show a warmer Montana in the future, with mixed changes in precipitation, more extreme events, and mixed certainty on upcoming drought.

Prior to joining ECI, she completed her Ph.D. at Oregon State University, where she worked on the weather@home project over western US region, looking at drivers of extreme drought events in the US, future regional climate change projections over the western US, as well as investigating uncertainties due to internal variability and physical parameter perturbations.

But we do know, says Levermann, that extreme rainfall events will increase in the future, and every projection shows much great land flooding in some regions.

The first is understanding extreme events and the risks associated with extreme weather and climate events — in the current climate, but also in a future climate.

This entertainment event, set in a future of advanced technology where man and machine meet on a vast salt plain to turn deadly battle into extreme sport, resides only in the ever - growing world of PlayStation Home.

«My personal informal estimate is that extreme weather events over the last decade which at least are more probable under future regimes have cost in excess of 100,000 lives and $ 100 billion US»

They can signal coming extreme events (somewhere), indicate where the average is actually «heading» in near future, and signals system step changes aka tipping points dead ahead.

However, the continuous change in the probability distribution of these various phenomena, as greenhouse forcing proceeds full speed ahead, indicates that such extreme events may be samples from the projected future distributions.

New website provides one - stop shop for flood maps, data on sea level and temperature changes, and other information to aid in planning for future extreme weather events

More extreme rainfall events are also expected in the future.

These types of extreme events are projected to increase in the future, putting at risk Oregonians» access to safe and adequate water supplies, hydropower, and transportation.

«The topic is extremely timely as current and future climate change would mean more changes in extreme events such as droughts and floods,» Yang said.

I also think that some sceptics have too readily seized on this as evidence of future cooling in the same way that the strong advocated of cAGW seize on any and all extreme weather events as evidence of «climate change».

«The action we take now in terms of getting emissions down... will have a big effect on what these extreme events will look like in the future,» Professor Steffen said in Sydney.

(VIDEO) Visualizing data makes it easier to understand exactly how an extreme weather event affected people's lives, livelihoods, and property and how those things could be affected in the future.

«These very strange extreme weather events are going to continue in their frequency and their severity... It's not that climate change is going to be here in the future, we are experiencing climate change.»

There are multiple studies associating extreme precipitation events with waterborne disease outbreaks and strong climatological evidence for increasing frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation events in the future.

In summary, there is little new about climate science in the report, and nothing at all new about attribution of past warming and extreme weather events to human activity, projections of future warming and its effects, or potential for catastrophic changeIn summary, there is little new about climate science in the report, and nothing at all new about attribution of past warming and extreme weather events to human activity, projections of future warming and its effects, or potential for catastrophic changein the report, and nothing at all new about attribution of past warming and extreme weather events to human activity, projections of future warming and its effects, or potential for catastrophic changes.

There is a pressing need to educate future researchers in the techniques given the prominence and importance of societal and scientific questions about extreme events that are receiving increasingly intense attention in the minds of the public and their policy makers.

A recent analysis [1] by Dr Luke Harrington and Dr Friederike Otto of climateprediction.net introduces a new framework, adapted from studies of probabilistic event attribution, to disentangle the relative importance of regional climate emergence and changing population dynamics in the exposure to future heat extremes across multiple densely populated regions in Southern Asia and Eastern Africa (SAEA).

Likewise, Tom alludes to «extreme climate - related events going on around the world right now», and the possibility of «more extreme» climate in the future.

One possible assumption is that the relationship between natural variability and extreme events could be different in the future.

Output from global circulation models indicates that climate variability will continue to be an important characteristic of the region in the future [52], but that climate change may increase the risk of extreme climatic events such as multi-decade droughts and extreme winter precipitation [53], [54].

Understanding the role of human emissions in the occurrence of such extreme fire events can lend insight into how these events might change in the future.

Research has shown that extreme weather events, such as droughts, will become more frequent in the future due to climate change, although it was found to have «not [been] a major influence» on a severe drought in southeastern Brazil in 2014 - 15.

My aching sides — Ed] think - tank the Climate Institute found extreme weather events, caused by climate change, will lead to food price rises in the future.

Hanley does a fantastic job of distinguishing between weather and climate, and stressing that we can't yet attribute extreme events to specific causes while acknowledging that this summer's wild weather fits with IPCC predictions and will become a lot more common in the future.

As hard as it might be to suss out the impact of extreme weather in 2017, yet harder is sussing out the impact of the changing climate, now and in the future — due to the difficulty of tying individual weather events to epochal changes like global warming, the inability of headline economic figures to capture the messy fullness of human life, and the inadequacy of the available data to measure changes in the natural and the economic world.

More extreme precipitation events (with 3 - hour duration) so intense than in the past they would be exceeded on average only once every 10 years are projected to occur on average three times as often in future in Metro Vancouver and about three and a half times as often in future in CRD.