Sentences with phrase «hurricane storm»

For example, restricting development of land in flood plains and in coastal locations affected by hurricane storm surge is an effective adaptation strategy regardless of how climate changes.

Over the past decade, modelers led by Clint Dawson of the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at the University of Texas, Austin; Rick Luettich of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and Joannes Westerink of the University of Notre Dame in Indiana developed a model, known as ADCIRC, to predict hurricane storm surges throughout the gulf.

Perusing hurricane storm tracks since 1850 (illustration below) reveals it was Sandy's unusual perpendicular approach to the coast that enhanced storm surge.

Grinsted et al. then used the relationships between hurricane storm surges and global and MDR temperatures to predict how storm surges will change in the future.

There is no evidence whatsoever that any given hurricane storm over the last 20 years, be it Harvey, Irma and so on, is a result of climate change.

Twenty - eight percent of homeowners incorrectly think hurricane storm surge flood damage is covered by a standard homeowners» policy, and 29 percent incorrectly think that their policy covers earthquake damage.

If an operator proposes a site that is too close to an earthquake fault, or too close to oceanfront that is vulnerable to a tsunami or hurricane storm surge, or downriver from a huge dam that could burst, then the NRC should reject the bid.

That risk line will be analogous to the hurricane storm - track projections that Gulf Coast residents warily eye every summer, with one crucial difference.

2010: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration adds 12 hours of lead time for its hurricane storm watches and warnings, now 48 and 36 hours in advance, respectively.

One potential alternative I can think of is to develop and deploy a hurricane storm surge protection system that would consist of as much as 100 miles of water - filled tubes that would be deployed along shorelines and across open shallow water.

However, a hurricane storm surge protection system could theoretically eliminate or greatly reduce all that damage.

The court also upheld State Farm's flood exclusion as applying to hurricane storm surge, and said that the anti-concurrent cause language in State Farm policies overturns a common law doctrine of property loss causation called «efficient proximate cause.»