Sentences with phrase «flooding events»

If jungle tribes who have had no contact with civilization for thousands of years have stories about a flood, doesn't this indicate that some sort of flood event did actually happen?

But in recent years, the frequency of major flooding events has been on the rise — and sometimes at unexpected times of year.

The scientists rank last winter's floods alongside the floods of 1947 as the two largest flood events for at least 100 years.

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

You must purchase a separate policy for flooding events caused by a storm or other natural disasters such as hurricanes.

You tend to see more flooding events, because a warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture, so when it does rain or snow, you actually get more precipitation.

Rising sea levels as a major impact of climate change pose a risk for coastal regions — the mean regional sea level rise takes effect by more frequent and more intense coastal flood events.

The simulation allowed the team to map precise water levels for actual flood events over time.

However, they haven't found the evidence for any global flooding event.

If you think you have proof of a world wide flood event, by all means, share it, and I will show the error of it.

This fits with what the team see in the rate of sediment accumulation in the deep sea — large flood events transporting more sediment, and moving it further.

Put simply, the distinction between precipitation and floods is not a hard one to make, nor is the distinction between flood events and associated losses.

Bottom line is that the heavy rainfall and disastrous flooding events that we continue to experience are certainly consistent with what the science tells us about the impacts from increasing global temperatures.

The frequency of major flooding events, in part due to climate change but greatly due to bad river management, are increasing.

Climate change could also increase the kinds of flooding events that have facilitated the spread of plague in the past.

The impacts of this warming are already being seen through increases in extreme weather events like heat waves, droughts, and extreme flooding events, which the assessment will highlight.

Why flood the event with games only when more trailers can always be released on YouTube.

The digital camera not only tells the researchers about the greening of the site but also about events they might not have otherwise been able to research, such as when major flood events occurred in 2015 and 2016.

Next, they compared flood events recorded in a stalagmite that grew over the past several decades to historical records of tropical cyclones.

«There is a pattern with increasing frequency of flood events from North Dakota south to Iowa and Missouri and east into Illinois, Indiana and Ohio,» says Iman Mallakpour, UI graduate student in civil and environmental engineering and lead author on the paper.

Our research indicates they will be more frequent under climate warming,» said Dr. Yang Gao, a post-doctoral researcher and atmospheric scientist at PNNL, «causing increased flooding events.»

Olson says Dogtooth Bend farmers and landowners, members and staff of the Len Small Levee and Drainage District, community and state - level leaders, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have some difficult decisions ahead in repairing the current landscape and preparing for future flood events — decisions that affect future land uses, resource allocations, and the livelihoods of the people of southern Illinois.

Practically speaking, that means you can have multiple 500 - year flood events happen essentially back - to - back.

«Most of the literature tends to focus on flooding events and increases in infectious diseases spread through water,» Dr Lal said.

PCIC's Trevor Murdock delivered a talk about the 200 - year flooding event in Bella Coola, discussing the results of climate downscaling approaches and future projections, which call for greater changes in more extreme events and wetter winters.

The SPIEGEL is currently covering what is called a Natural Disaster, official eyewitnesses from the natural disaster response describe the flash flood event as unprecedented.

For example, large increases in heavy precipitation have occurred in the Northeast, Midwest, and Great Plains, where heavy downpours have frequently led to runoff that exceeded the capacity of storm drains and levees, and caused flooding events and accelerated erosion.

Nobody lost sleep when some silvers and bigheads escaped into rivers during flood events.

It linked heavy air pollution to a catastrophic flooding event in China's Sichuan Basin.

Even things like flood events and nutrients can actually ameliorate the effects of temperature on corals — weird stuff.»

«For Bramston Reef, our results revealed that mortality was more recent than previously thought, coinciding with a big flood event and extreme low tide in 1990 - 1991 — but showed some recovery by 2012.

Recent flooding events highlight why flood - risk governance in the United States needs a major overhaul.

Heavy rain is the root cause of a number of inland flooding events.

Slap said Harvey was only the latest natural disaster to expose flaws in the national flood insurance programme allowing property owners in the Federal Emergency Management Agency's so - called Zone X — areas at risk of a once - in -500-years flood event — not to carry coverage or fully disclose their flood risk when they sell.

Roll your cursor over each county to see how many flooding events have happened.

Rising temperatures and more frequent flooding events are likely to increase with climate change, and in Bangladesh, this will affect the lives of the 4 million people working in the garment industry, who are disproportionately women.

But probably (as other research seems to show) more possible flood events are more likely with AGW than without.

Atmospheric rivers are narrow streams of moisture that account for 30 to 40 percent of the typical snow pack and annual precipitation along the Pacific Coast and are associated with severe flooding events.

Working in tandem, these two phenomena together produced one of the largest multi-day flooding events Texas has ever experienced.

With the project already underway, flood duration has been reduced from three days to only three hours per flood event.