Sentences with phrase «flood waves over»

«Advances in numerical algorithms, automatic grid generation, and increased supercomputer power will eventually make the simulations of flood waves over large durations of time possible using Titan, and even more so with Summit,» Constantinescu said.

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Thou didst cast me into the depths, far out at sea, and the flood closed round me; all thy waves, all thy billows, passed over me.

I felt an incredible wave of hate flood over me.

For you cast me into the deep, Into the heart of the seas, And the floods surrounded me; All Your billows and Your waves passed over me.

About a month ago a friend alerted me to a Facebook post that brought a wave of memories flooding over me from a day that changed my life forever as a parent.

The researchers developed a novel approach to the issue by using climate data from the IPCC and directly modeling all of the components that cause flooding at the coast including, waves, tides, winds blowing over the surface of the ocean and estuaries, precipitation, and stream flow.

But unless such drastic action is taken in the next few years, we are headed for a very different world, one in which seas will rise by more than 5 metres over the coming centuries, and droughts, floods and extreme heat waves will ravage many parts of the world (see «Rising seas expected to sink islands near US capital in 50 years «-RRB-.

In his latest film, The Day After Tomorrow he subjects the Big Apple to a new Ice Age as enormous tidal waves flood the city and then freezes over.

What is first noticed at this hidden gem is how the waves break over the rock formations and flood into an almost perfect circle.

My take is that the tug of war over what's causing today's telegenic heat waves, floods, tempests — and even Arctic sea - ice retreats — distracts from the high confidence scientists have in the long - term (but less sexy) picture: that more CO2 will lead to centuries of climate and coastal changes with big consequences for a growing human population (for better and worse in the short run, and likely mostly for the worse in the long run).

sheesh 2 DEGREES just look at the s ** t we are getting at 0.8 degrees Its like goodbye coral reefs, goodbye amazon rainforest, goodbye himalayan glaciers that provide water to 40 % worlds population (lot of poeple in china), goodbye east india monsoon rains needed to grow crops, hello more droughts, hello more forest fires, hello more heat waves, hello more stronger huricanes / typhones / cyclones, hello more floods (because warmer oceans have even more water evaporated from them turned into clouds and blown over land so even more rain pours down at once), hello more jellyfish (they thrive in acidified oceans because of CO2 absorbtion).

Warming over land can have multiple effects, including melting of mountain glaciers, spread of deserts in continental interiors, greater flooding, more frequent heat waves and other extreme weather patterns.

When people build on these coastal areas, there is a substantial risk of coastal flooding as waves will continue to pass over the beach into developed areas.

Over the past several months, extreme events in the form of heat waves, droughts, fires, and flooding have seemed to become the norm rather than the exception.

In recent years, New Yorkers, like people all over the world, have faced the realities of human - made climate change: extreme storms, rising sea levels, summer heat waves, massive winter nor'easter s, and a $ 20 billion plan to reduce future flooding.

A streak of freak floods in the US, a deadly heat - wave across Central Russia, record drought in the Amazon, deadly floods in Colombia and Venezuela, record highs all over the globe, and a catastrophic flood in Pakistan that affected 20 million people: this is the year when the impacts of climate change no longer appeared hazily in an abstract future, but seemed to be knocking on our collective doorstep.

The decadal scenarios are not time series, but rather frequencies of extreme events (including clusters) and worst case scenarios over the target time interval: floods, droughts, heat waves, tropical cyclones, heavy snowfalls, etc..

Global warming plays a role by 1) elevating the SSTs in the Indian Ocean and Indonesian region, where it contributes to the excessive moisture and rains that gave the flooding over Pakistan, India and China; and 2) In Russia by adding to the heat and drying, making the drought more intense, longer lasting, and with stronger and record breaking heat waves.

It was a blocking pattern that led to a phenomenal heat wave in Alaska in 2013, to the floods in the Northeast, and to the unbelievable rain we saw here in my home town of Boulder last year; we got over 30 cm in just a day or two.

You get the impression from some commentary that the bucket's been full for a long time and is just flooding over in waves each year.

While the cancellation of SegWit2x is causing a flood of investments away from Bitcoin into alternative coins, entry - level traders need to remember that a currency responsible for over half of total market capitalization has the power to cause massive waves in the value of all cryptocurrencies.