Sentences with phrase «improving weather warning»

To avoid costly problems in the future, ICA and other groups recommend a variety of policy improvements, including changing land use regulations in fire - and flood - prone areas, strengthening building codes, and improving weather warning and modelling services.

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«An improved understanding of what weather radars tell us about tornado debris can help provide more accurate tornado warnings and quickly direct emergency personnel to affected areas.»

The research could also bring in more accurate weather predictions and improved warnings for sunbathers.

With technological advances in night vision goggles, satellite tracking and terrain warning systems, and a Web - based national database available to all medical helicopter programs when the weather is not suited for flying, «safety has greatly improved, «Holdren said.

The Technology package is enhanced for the 2015 model year with Rear Cross Traffic Alert, warning drivers of cross traffic when in reverse, and includes 19 - inch alloy wheels, a radar - based Advanced Smart Cruise Control System, Blind Spot Detection, Lane Departure Warning System, electronic parking brake, and water - repelling Hydrophobic front side windows for improved visibility during inclement weather, all of which are standard on the Cadenza Lwarning drivers of cross traffic when in reverse, and includes 19 - inch alloy wheels, a radar - based Advanced Smart Cruise Control System, Blind Spot Detection, Lane Departure Warning System, electronic parking brake, and water - repelling Hydrophobic front side windows for improved visibility during inclement weather, all of which are standard on the Cadenza LWarning System, electronic parking brake, and water - repelling Hydrophobic front side windows for improved visibility during inclement weather, all of which are standard on the Cadenza Limited.

Other feature on higher trim levels or available as options include a cross-traffic alert, blind spot warning system that works at extended distance compared to others, a new generation of the company's exceptional EyeSight system that employs more compact colour cameras for improved poor weather work, the ability to recognize red brake lights and faster pedestrian detection.

Smith is also the author of «Warnings: The True Story of How Science Tamed the Weather,» an engaging history of how individuals fought institutional inertia to improve severe - weather wWarnings: The True Story of How Science Tamed the Weather,» an engaging history of how individuals fought institutional inertia to improve severe - weather warningswarnings.

Preventive and adaptive actions, such as setting up extreme weather early warning systems and improving water infrastructure, can reduce the severity of these impacts, but there are limits to the effectiveness of such actions in the face of some projected climate change threats.

The main objective of the Building Resilience to Climate Related Hazards Project for Nepal is to diminish the impacts of extreme climate - related events, protect lives and assets, and support agricultural livelihoods by establishing multi-hazard information and early warning systems, upgrading the existing hydromet and agricultural information management systems, and improving the accuracy and timeliness of weather and flood forecasts and warning.

World Bank: The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors has approved funding of a project that aims to enhance government capacity to mitigate climate - related hazards in Nepal by improving the accuracy and timeliness of weather and flood forecasts and warnings for climate - vulnerable communities.

«The White House decision to create the Joint Polar Satellite System by restructuring NPOESS will improve the development of critical Earth - observing instruments required for improving weather forecasts, climate monitoring and warning leads for severe storms,» NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco said yesterday.

Scientists will discuss new systems they developed to improve real - time warnings of natural hazards like earthquakes, tsunamis and extreme weather events.

For instance, building codes are better, and weather forecasting has improved, giving people more warnings of severe storms, and so on.

But we can save many more lives by addressing the threat of tornadoes directly — for example, with improved and more widely dispersed weather radars, and with better means for warning the people of endangered areas — than by credulous support of schemes to reduce «carbon footprints,» or by funding even more computer centers to predict global warming.

Last month, India launched a satellite [1], INSAT 3D, that aims to improve early warnings of extreme weather events — such as the devastating floods and landslides that hit the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand in June — and aid search and rescue.