Sentences with phrase «hydrologic events»

Like any other region of the world, the state is subject to extreme hydrologic events, including both floods and droughts.

Climate and droughts, in Paulson RW, Chase EB, Roberts RS, and Moody DW, Compilers, National Water Summary 1988 — 89 — Hydrologic Events and Floods and Droughts

The work of the theme anticipates the need to provide information on multiple time and spatial scales and the requirement to understand potential changes in extreme hydrologic events.

The pattern of change for the wettest day of the year is projected to roughly follow that of the average precipitation, with both increases and decreases across the U.S. Extreme hydrologic events are projected to increase over most of the U.S.

While the illustrative example focuses on the flooding hazard, the methodology can be applied to other extreme hydrologic events, such as hurricanes and tsunamis.

Not exact matches

His work mainly focuses on remote sensing of precipitation, hydrologic applications, and the analysis of extreme weather and climatic events using observation and models.

Don't try to snip out just the warming in the hydrologic cycle and leave out the cooling event.

But, precipitation episodes in 1950 and 1955, while the dam was under construction, would have exceeded the RDE When factored into updated hydrologic analyses in 1977, these events (and floods in 1964 - 65 which slightly exceeded the RDF) yielded a recurrence interval of roughly 120 years (Neal, 1986).

The school will also teach the importance of understanding the physical mechanisms that produce many of the most impactful extreme events, including «complex» hydrologic extremes such as drought and the role of coupled land - atmosphere feedback mechanisms in amplifying extreme temperature events.

Also, as attention shifts towards projections of extreme events, downscaling comparisons now commonly assess methods in terms of climate extremes, but hydrologic extremes are less well explored.

Overall, DBCCA passed the greatest number of tests for the ClimDEX indices, while BCCAQ, which is designed to more accurately resolve event - scale spatial gradients, passed the greatest number of tests for hydrologic extremes.

Hoell A., A. E. Gaughan, S. Shukla and T. Magadzire (September 2017): The Hydrologic Effects of Synchronous El Niño — Southern Oscillation and Subtropical Indian Ocean Dipole Events over Southern Africa.

The early Eocene hyperthermals, a series of transient global warming events (2 to 5 °C, provide a unique opportunity to assess the sensitivity of the hydrologic cycle to the scale of greenhouse forcing expected over the next several centuries.

Coverage spans a wide range of topics, including Ecological Impacts; Advances in Modeling; Sea Level Projections; Extreme Events; Climate Feedback and Sensitivity; Hydrologic Impact; Effects on Human Health; and Economics and Policy Issues.

I often lead discussion among Realtors about the affects of climate change on real estate, from increased intensity and frequency of storm events to changing hydrologic cycles.