Sentences with phrase «heatwave events»

Using monthly means as a proxy for heatwaves Coumou et al. (2013) and Hansen et al. (2012) indicate that record - breaking temperatures in recent decades substantially exceed what would be expected by chance but caution is required when making inferences between these studies and those that deal with multi-day events and / or use more complex definitions for heatwave events

Professor Will Steffen from the Climate Council Of Australia said the «abnormal April» records highlights the impact climate change is having across the country, driving more severe and more frequent heatwave events that are lasting longer than ever before.

Summer arrived alongside a warning that many Australians do not understand the dangers that heatwaves pose, and continued debate over what actually constitutes a «heatwave event».

Not exact matches

What Welbergen witnessed could be a harbinger of an increasingly dangerous world in which rare weather events such as heatwaves, deluges, droughts and storms become much more common.

CLIMATE scientists tend to shy away from assigning blame for extreme weather events like the fictional heatwave described above.

Thanks to human - made climate change, events like storms, heatwaves and floods are on the rise, and there is growing demand for people who understand these phenomena and can advise the rest of us on how to handle them.

The researchers then looked at four key extreme Australian events — the Angry Summer 2012/13; the Coral Sea marine heatwave of 2016; the severe rain event in Queensland in 2010; and the 2006 drought in southeast Australia — to model how often similar events could occur under each scenario.

In the coming decades Russia will experience worse heatwaves than the 2010 event, which killed 55,000 people, while the US will bake in the West and Great Lakes regions

Climate variability is of concern given that extreme events, such as prolonged drought or heatwaves, can disproportionately impact biology, reduce resilience and leave a lasting impact.

An assessment of the extreme weather events concludes that five heatwaves across the world would have been unlikely without greenhouse gas emissions

Dr Kennedy says previous studies have shown that if Orbicella annularis contains just a small amount of Symbiodinium D it can sometimes respond better to stress events — such as heatwaves — and is more likely to avoid coral bleaching.

The quantity and types of coral and fish species were surveyed before, during and after the 2016 mass bleaching event caused by a global heatwave.

Playing the climate blame game The question of whether climate change is responsible for extreme weather events like the heatwave that set Russia alight in 2010 is one of the hottest topics in climate science.

If science can nail climate change as a probable cause of deadly weather events, like the heatwave that hit Europe in the summer of 2003, then global warming becomes a matter for product liability law.

Atmospheric heatwaves can have significant impacts on human health31 and attribution studies have shown that these events, and atmospheric heatwaves in general, have become much more likely as a result of anthropogenic warming32.

For example, the 2003 European heatwave caused tens of thousands of deaths33 and was later superseded in intensity by the 2010 European heatwave, events which can be expected to increase in probability over the 2010 — 2050 period34.

Presumably all drought, floods, heatwaves etc are regional events.

To appreciate this one only has to look at figure 4, where the slowly shifting mean (global warming) causes a dramatic increase in extreme warm events (heatwaves).

Our ensemble fire weather season length metric captured important wildfire events throughout Eurasia such as the Indonesian fires of 1997 — 98 where peat fires, following an El Niño - induced drought, released carbon equivalent to 13 — 40 % of the global fossil fuel emissions from only 1.4 % of the global vegetated land area (Fig. 4, 1997 — 1998) 46 and the heatwave over Western Russia in 2010 (Fig. 4, 2010) that led to its worst fire season in recorded history and triggered extreme air pollution in Moscow51.

The Extremes Grand Challenge is organised around four over arching themes (Document, Understand, Simulate, Attribute) with a main focus on four core events (Heavy Precipitation, Heatwave, Drought, Storm).

A recent report issued by the UN shows that over the last twenty years, 90 per cent of major disasters have been caused by 6,457 recorded floods, storms, heatwaves, droughts and other weather - related events.

Taking place at The Store, 180 The Strand and produced in collaboration with Jeremy Deller, this special event will feature a live performance by Cecilia Bengolea with DJs The Heatwave and special guests.

We are already seeing more intense storms and more heatwaves and higher extreme rainfall events, all at damaging levels so it can only get worse over the next 30 years imho.

It seems one of the factors was extraordinarily high food prices... Of course, there are many factors that determine food prices... On the supply side there have been some terrible weather events... floods, droughts, severe storms, wildfires, heatwaves, and??

«The world experienced a series of record - breaking weather events in early 2007, from flooding in Asia to heatwaves in Europe and snowfall in South Africa, the United Nations weather agency said on Tuesday.

Of course it would be nice to know exactly how and when we're going to really suffer — abrupt CC, runaway GW, mass extinction event, or just a linear ratcheting up of the same (floods, droughts, heatwaves, sea rise / land loss, disease spread, mega-storms, glacier melt, famines).

Aren't such unseasonal weather events just as newsworthy as heatwaves in summer?

In increasing order of suddenness, there are what you might call «steady - state» impacts such as rising sea levels; increased separation of weather into more concentrated wet periods and dry periods; and a greater occurrence of extreme weather events such as hurricanes, floods, heatwaves and droughts.

Having said that... I remember hearing that analysis of two recent extreme events that affected the UK, [September 2000 floods and 2004 heatwave] shows that these were extreme events an increased risk of which would be consistent with global warming.

Events such as the 2003 heatwave, the 2010 heatwave / wildfire event, and the 2012 drought — to name just a few of the most well - known — have cost on the order of 100,000 premature deaths and $ 100 billion in economic losses.

The paper considers the necessary components of a prospective event attribution system, reviews some specific case studies made to date (Autumn 2000 UK floods, summer 2003 European heatwave, annual 2008 cool US temperatures, July 2010 Western Russia heatwave) and discusses the challenges involved in developing systems to provide regularly updated and reliable attribution assessments of unusual or extreme weather and climate - related events.

As an example, they cite work indicating that failure of the rice crop in southern China due to heatwaves could change from a one - in - a-100-year event to a one - in - four - year event in 2100.

Links: May Heatwave Sparks Fears of Hot Summer in Egypt Egypt Heatwave Kills 42 Japan in Hot Water Earth Nullschool It Felt Like 165 Degrees in Iran Today Heatwave Mass Casualty Event in Pakistan Heatwave Mass Casualty Event in India Record Japan Heat Leads to 32 Deaths in One Week

And at the most extreme end of this spectrum are the heatwave mass casualty events — which this year have been very numerous and widespread.

Visible changes in hydrological cycle have been observed in the form of changing precipitation patterns, cropping patterns, droughts, water availability periods, frequency and intensity of heatwaves, precipitation events and weather - induced natural disasters.

They are: cloudburst events (2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011), prolonged droughts (1999 - 2002), historic river flooding (2010), tropical cyclones (1999, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011), severe urban flooding (2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011), heatwaves in spring (2006, 2007, 2010), snowmelt flooding (2005, 2007, 2010) and drought at sowing stage (2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011).

In the course of the last 15 years, governments and authorities the world over have been warned loudly and repeatedly that global warming could be accompanied by a greater risk of severe weather - related events: floods, heatwaves, ice storms, typhoons and droughts.

My own guesstimate starts with events that have either been formally attributed (in a probabilistic way) to climate change — an example is the 2003 European heatwave — or which have a demonstrable link to physical processes consistent with a climate influence — examples include Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy, both of which were observed to rapidly intensify over unusually warm waters.

What the industry describes as extreme weather events have increased in number and severity as the global climate system has altered, causing more and bigger hurricanes, typhoons and heatwaves around the world.

However, what we perceive as extreme events, like floods or heatwaves, is not reflected in our datasets.»

The recent heatwaves and raging bushfires have been a stark reminder of Australia's particular vulnerability to extreme weather events.

Researchers, including Australian climate scientist Dr Sarah Perkins - Kirkpatrick, are trying to standardise the definitions of «heatwaves» and «hot days» and create a framework that allows for more in - depth studies of these events.

However, the timescale used in the study was too broad to reflect short - term events, such as floods and heatwaves.

One of the key effects of climate change is that extreme weather events such as floods, droughts, heatwaves, and rainfall variations become more frequent and more severe.

Increasingly sophisticated techniques and enhanced computational capacity allow a greater range of events — heatwaves, floods, drought, heat deaths, coral reef bleaching — to be analysed for a human fingerprint with ever greater levels of certainty than Allen's exploratory possibilities.

Fraction of attributable risk puts a number value on the influence that a particular factor (e.g., smoking or carbon dioxide) had on a particular event (e.g., lung cancer or a heatwave, respectively).

Global warming changes weather patterns, causing severe weather events, heatwaves, droughts and floods.

Also what a lot of extreme events there were - droughts, tempests, heatwaves, floods, you name it and it was far worse back then than today tonyb

It means hotter global temperatures, more extreme weather events like heatwaves and floods, melting ice, rising sea levels and increased acidity of the oceans.

GENEVA (Reuters)- The world experienced a series of record - breaking weather events in early 2007, from flooding in Asia to heatwaves in Europe and snowfall in South Africa, the United Nations weather agency said on Tuesday.