Sentences with phrase «extremes in a number of categories»

The Climate Extremes Index, or CEI, tracks the highest and lowest 10 percent of extremes in a number of categories.

The Climate Extremes Index, or CEI, tracks the highest and lowest 10 percent of extremes in a number of categories.

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Worldwide there will likely be an average increase in the maximum wind speed of tropical cyclones (hurricanes and typhoons) of 2 to 11 %.6 Because of the way extremes respond to changes such as these, Category 4 and 5 hurricanes are expected to nearly double in number by the end of the century.7 The rate of rainfall associated with tropical cyclones, an important factor in flooding, is expected to increase approximately 20 % within 100 km of the center of these storms.8

Here are a couple of striking numbers from the data: in the decade from 2004 to 2013, worldwide climate - related deaths (including droughts, floods, extreme temperatures, wildfires, and storms) plummeted to a level 88.6 percent below that of the peak decade, 1930 to 1939.2 The year 2013, with 29,404 reported deaths, had 99.4 percent fewer climate - related deaths than the historic record year of 1932, which had 5,073,283 reported deaths for the same category.