Sentences with phrase «in extreme rain events»

The study, by British and American scientists, found that the observed peaks in extreme rain events are about twice as high as what global climate simulations produce.

In extreme rain events, sediment and associated pollution have already been shown to flow out to sea in a pulse reaching as far out as 100 kilometers (62 miles) that can be seen from space, said Richmond.

Not exact matches

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.

The researchers also looked at other extreme events, like the southeast Australian drought of 2006 and the rain events that led to widespread flooding in Queensland in 2010, to see whether they would occur more often as global temperatures increased.

Fluctuations in extreme weather events, such as heavy rains and droughts, are affecting ecosystems in unexpected ways — creating «winners and losers» among plant species that humans depend upon for food.

Since 2002, Denmark's challenge in dealing with extreme rain events has meant that many urban areas have been immersed in water following heavy rainfall.

In late December to early January, southern California also experienced particularly extreme rain events that induced flash floods and mudslides.

What goes up, must come down and, more and more, that water vapor is coming down in extreme precipitation events — defined in North America as more than 100 millimeters of rainfall (or the equivalent in snow or freezing rain) falling in 24 hours — according to new research also published February 17 in Nature that examines such events in the Northern Hemisphere.

«When you take a very, very rare, extreme rainfall event like Hurricane Harvey, and you shift the distribution of rain toward heavier amounts because of climate change, you get really big changes in the probability of those rare events,» Emanuel says.

While the models do not reliably track individual extreme weather events, they do reproduce the jet stream patterns and temperature scenarios that in the real world lead to torrential rain for days, weeks of broiling sun and absence of precipitation.

Many people are very worried, even scared, about abrupt climate change causing extreme weather events like torrential rains with floods, droughts, high winds, etc. increasing in severity, duration, frequency and impact.

The first thorough federal review of research on how global warming may affect extreme climate events in North America forecasts more drenching rains, parching droughts (especially in the Southwest), intense heat waves and stronger hurricanes if long - lived greenhouse gases continue building in the atmosphere.

The tendency towards increased magnitude of extreme rain events (documented in the historical record and projected to continue in downscaling analyses) will cause an increased risk of waterborne disease outbreaks in the absence of infrastructure overhaul.

The report also predicts extreme rain events could pollute lakes and streams due to nutrient run - off, noting that a heavy rainfall in 2012 combined with a particularly warm year fueled a massive algae bloom in Lake Auburn.

The 2010 weather shocks are associated with not only an increase in the number of dengue cases but also with a decrease in its incidence (particularly in the presence of extreme rain events).

This warming, in turn, has melted ice, raised sea levels, and increased the frequency of extreme weather events: heat waves and heavy rains, for example.

They estimate that there has been a (roughly) 18 - percent increase in the intensity of extreme rain events along this stretch of the Gulf Coast since the late 1800s.

[18] There has also been a 40 percent increase in number of five - year rain events, extreme events that have only a 20 percent chance of occurring in any given year.

Two recent events contrast existing vulnerability to extreme events: Hurricane Irene, which produced a broad swath of very heavy rain (greater than five inches in total and sometimes two to three inches per hour in some locations) from southern Maryland to northern Vermont from August 27 to 29, 2011; and Hurricane Sandy, which caused massive coastal damage from storm surge and flooding along the Northeast coast from October 28 to 30, 2012.

He says average rainfall for Australia will decrease, but the extreme weather events will be on the rise, so while you might get less rain over the year it will come in the form of damaging storms and stronger winds which feel like so - called freak events.

How human influence affected other types of events such as droughts, heavy rain events, and storms was less clear, indicating that natural variability likely played a much larger role in these extremes.

The Gulf Coast is historically prone to hurricanes, but climate change has contributed to a greater intensity of extreme weather events like hurricanes and an increase in the amount of rain produced by those events.

The Polar bears stubbornly refuse to go extinct, indeed the buggers are thriving, the glaciers don't appear to be disappearing, sea levels have stayed boringly level, we haven't been subsumed by hordes of desperate climate refugees, the polar ice caps haven't melted, the Great Barrier Reef is still with us, we haven't fought any resource wars, oil hasn't run out, the seas insist on not getting acidic, the rainforest is still around, islands have not sunk under the sea, the ozone holes haven't got bigger, the world hasn't entered a new ice age, acid rain appears to have fallen somewhere that can't quite be located, the Gulf Stream hasn't stopped, extreme weather events have been embarrassingly sparse in recent years and guess what?

These include increased average land and ocean temperatures that lead to reduced snowpack levels, hydrological changes, and sea level rise; changing precipitation patterns that will create both drought and extreme rain events; and increasing atmospheric CO2 that will contribute to ocean acidification, changes in species composition, and increased risk of fires.

Because we may see really extreme precipitation events, with very powerful atmospheric rivers, that dump a ton of rain and put us in danger of devastating floods, we need to continue investing in our flood management infrastructure.

This possibly explains the greater incidence of extreme weather events of all types noted in the historic records compared to today, especially the prolonged periods of heavy rain leading to flooding.

Is there enough freshwater rain in your average extreme event to change the salinity of large areas of the ocean?

It is clear that in terms of weather, environmental health, extreme events, snow, rain drought and flood, the impact of a global average is trivial or less.

Here is an excerpt of the research paper, «When It Rains It Pours», from Environment America, showing a statistically significant spike in flash flooding and other extreme precipitation events since 1948: «Weather records show that storms with extreme precipitation have become more frequent over the last 60 years.

Global warming is causing more intense rain and snowstorms in the United States, and making extreme events such as the January 2016 snow storm that crippled most of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast more likely.

In continental fluvial and coastal sections, changes in siliciclastic depositional facies reflect on increased frequency of high - energy events (e.g., extreme flooding), possibly from monsoon - like seasonal rains, and / or from unusually intense and / or sustained extra-tropical stormIn continental fluvial and coastal sections, changes in siliciclastic depositional facies reflect on increased frequency of high - energy events (e.g., extreme flooding), possibly from monsoon - like seasonal rains, and / or from unusually intense and / or sustained extra-tropical stormin siliciclastic depositional facies reflect on increased frequency of high - energy events (e.g., extreme flooding), possibly from monsoon - like seasonal rains, and / or from unusually intense and / or sustained extra-tropical storms.

what and how many extreme rain events have their been in the last 250 million years... yr a dckhead - and they made you a professor - wot out of a fckn cornflake packet?