Sentences with phrase «for coastal inundation»

Your challenge is to create tools and provide information so communities can prepare for coastal inundation.

The main focus of the CIFDP is to facilitate the development of efficient forecasting and warning systems for coastal inundation based on robust science and observations.

Not exact matches

«However, our findings show that sea - level rise could be considerably faster than anything yet observed, and because of this situation, coastal communities need to be prepared for potential inundation.»

In India, for instance, 5700 square kilometres of coastal area are at risk of inundation, and 7.1 million people could be displaced (see Diagram).

The resulting inundation of coastal areas, severe weather impacts and loss of ecosystem services will likely cause major negative impacts for most nations.

Below you'll hear from scientists with significant concerns about keystone sections of the paper — on the evidence for «superstorms» in the last warm interval between ice ages, the Eemian, and on the pace at which seas could rise and the imminence of any substantial uptick in the rate of coastal inundation.

Evidence from Oregon, one of the states most vulnerable to great earthquakes, points out the challenge of moving from such logic, on paper, to investments in vulnerable schools or coastal communities in the inundation zone for the tsunami that will accompany the next great thrust of the Cascadia fault off the Northwest Coast.

Examples of possible applications / users include: warnings of the likelihood of severe high impact weather (droughts, flooding, tropical and extratropical cyclones etc.) to help protect life and property; humanitarian planning and response to disasters; agriculture and disease planning / control (e.g., malaria and meningitis), particularly in developing countries; river - flow and river - discharge for flood prediction, hydroelectric power generation and reservoir management; landslides; coastal inundation; transport; power generation; insurance.

For many regions, an important focus of coastal use planning is to use the coast as a natural system to buffer coastal communities from inundation, working with nature rather than against it, as in the Netherlands.

The primary environmental objective of a tax on carbon is to set a price that reflects the «real» costs such emissions impose — accounting for the damages that are expected to arise from global warming, including effects on agricultural productivity and human health, coastal inundation, and other changes.

For New York City, sea - level rise will accelerate the inundation of coastal wetlands, threaten vital infrastructure and water supplies, augment summertime energy demand, and affect public health (Rosenzweig and Solecki, 2001a; Knowlton et al., 2004; Kinney et al., 2006).

By mapping these fingerprint gradients, they have come up with a new diagnosis tool, referred to as gradient fingerprint mapping (GFM), that readily allows for improved assessments of future coastal inundation or emergence.