Sentences with phrase «in flood waves»

Pushing the boundaries of representation, many of Bisky's figurative paintings are suffused with densely packed body parts caught in flood waves and wedged into one another.

Not exact matches

At Halle on his way to Eisleben, he was held up by floods which he personified in a letter to Katie of 25 January as a «huge she - Anabaptist» which «met us with waves of water and great floating pieces of ice; she threatened to baptise us again and has covered the countryside.»

Fraternity: as between man and man, in the sense of an organic interrelation based not merely on our more or less accidental coexistence on the surface of the earth, or even on our common origin, but on the fact that we represent, all of us together, the front line, the crest of an evolutionary wave still in full flood.

Sara White had been walking across the road with her son in his stroller when a rogue wave came out of nowhere and crashed into them, dragging them across the road as water continued to flood their way.

Residents along the Lake Ontario shoreline in Western NY continue to keep an eye on the winds and the waves that may bring flooding to some of their homes and other property.

Aberystwyth University student Thomas Rule filmed flooding in his seafront flat - and waves crashing onto the promenade.

In an op - ed last week, party chief Joe Roberti Jr. wrote that there was a «tidal wave of narcotics flooding Saugerties and the Hudson Valley.»

Tory chiefs plan to flood the seaside constituency with Ministers and MPs in an attempt to hold back Carswell's tidal wave of support.

* «Brad Zaun is Wrong for Iowa»: The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's ad on comments made about the flooding in Iowa by state Sen. Brad Zaun (R) proved that sometimes a local issue — if it is cutting enough — can trump a national wave.

This means that the science of climate change may partially undergo a shift of its own, moving from trying to prove it is a problem (it is now «very likely» that greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have already caused enough warming to trigger stronger droughts, heat waves, more and bigger forest fires and more extreme storms and flooding) to figuring out ways to fix it.

Locked in a deadly embrace, two white dwarf stars may be the strongest source of gravitational waves now flooding our galaxy.

Global warming is causing not only a general increase in temperatures, but also an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, such as flooding, heat waves and droughts.

«If sea levels go up, and waves get bigger, and the rain gets heavier, some areas will be very difficult to live in,» says David Ramsbottom of HR Wallingford, a consultancy that advises the UK government on flood defences.

Increased fluctuations in the path of the North Atlantic jet stream since the 1960s coincide with more extreme weather events in Europe such as heat waves, droughts, wildfires and flooding, reports a University of Arizona - led team.

«Advances in numerical algorithms, automatic grid generation, and increased supercomputer power will eventually make the simulations of flood waves over large durations of time possible using Titan, and even more so with Summit,» Constantinescu said.

Because 2 - D models make simplified assumptions about some aspects of the flow, they can't account for changes in the flow, such as when the flood wave moves around large obstacles, changes rapidly in direction, or fully immerses bridge decks.

In Sendai, the largest city, waves flooded the streets and the airport, sending cars and even planes swirling through the city while black smoke billowed from the burning Nippon Oil refinery.

They also protect coastlines from large waves and flooding, a major issue in areas that are prone to tropical storms or hurricanes.

Heat waves are the deadliest weather threat in the United States, killing more people each year than hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and earthquakes combined.

In addition to the flooding, recent years have brought record heat waves, costly crop losses, and brush fires of unimaginable ferocity.

Waves surged in from the sea, flooding houses a foot deep and ripping fishing boats from their moorings in the harbor, tossing them high up onto the shore.

Hawaii did experience some flooding and wave damage, but the effects were not nearly as severe as in Japan, and no fatalities have been reported.

«We're having the same conversation we've been having since the 1988 drought, the 1993 floods, Hurricane Katrina, the heat waves in Europe.

Hensch said the biggest risk in Iceland itself was from flood waves from any eruption under the glacier.

NCAR, which is financed in part by the National Science Foundation, has spent several years searching for ways to extend the predicability of floods, droughts, heat waves and other extreme weather events from weeks to months as a way to give weather - sensitive sectors such as agriculture more time to protect themselves against costly losses.

The earth's natural processes, particularly sea level rise, waves and various weather phenomena, have resulted in the erosion, accretion and reshaping of coasts as well as flooding and creation of continental shelves and drowned river valleys (rias).

And while Democrats won the social media race (as well as the election) in 2008, members of both parties have flooded the Twitter waves in the past few months.

«If the same weather persists for weeks on end in one region, then sunny days can turn into a serious heat wave and drought, and lasting rains can lead to flooding,» said Stefan Rahmstorf, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Germany.

The researchers looked at real - world observations and confirmed that this temperature pattern does correspond with the double - peaked jet stream and waveguide patter associated with persistent extreme weather events in the late spring and summer such as droughts, floods and heat waves.

«The best scientists in the world are all telling us that our activities are changing the climate, and if we do not act forcefully, we'll continue to see rising oceans; longer, hotter heat waves; dangerous droughts and floods; and massive disruptions that can trigger greater migration, conflict and hunger around the globe,» Obama added.

Each workshop had a different theme related to climate extremes, had approximately 30 attendees (the CMIP5 meeting had more than 100), and the workshops resulted in a paper.11 The first workshop was held in July 2011, titled Monitoring Changes in Extreme Storm Statistics: State of Knowledge.12 The second was held in November 2011, titled Forum on Trends and Causes of Observed Changes in Heatwaves, Coldwaves, Floods, and Drought.13 The third was held in January 2012, titled Forum on Trends in Extreme Winds, Waves, and Extratropical Storms along the Coasts.14 The fourth, the CMIP5 results workshop, was held in March 2012 in Hawai`i, and resulted in an analysis of CMIP5 results relative to climate extremes in the United States.11

But unless such drastic action is taken in the next few years, we are headed for a very different world, one in which seas will rise by more than 5 metres over the coming centuries, and droughts, floods and extreme heat waves will ravage many parts of the world (see «Rising seas expected to sink islands near US capital in 50 years «-RRB-.

They point to direct effects resulting from rising temperatures and changes in the frequency and strength of storms, floods, droughts, and heat - waves — as well as to less direct impacts, such as changes in crop yields, the burden and distribution of infectious disease, and climate - induced population displacement and violent conflict.

Devastating floods occurred with the Mississippi River in 2011, and this marked the start of a record - breaking year of droughts and heat waves in the United States that stretched into the fall of 2012, as well as the lowest level of ice extent in the Arctic.

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I cover current heat waves in Australia, California, Brazil / Argentina, Alaska and Siberia, plus the UK floods.

When «climate change» is referred to in the press, it normally means greenhouse warming, which, it is predicted, will cause flooding, severe windstorms, and killer heat waves.

Here are some that come to mind: the European heat wave that killed at least 50,000 people in 2003, the Russian killer heat wave in 2010 and Pakistan flooding in the same year.

Climate Adaptation: The State of Practice in U.S. Communities is the first study to examine in depth actions that multiple municipalities are taking to address climate - change fueled events like flooding, heat waves, wildfires and intense storms.

With record heat waves around the world, strange 500 - year floods, and creatures dying in hot seas, there is lots to talk about.

Another set of indie darlings are set to flood the Switch this week, with one post apocalyptic romp in particular making waves for fans of survival sims and beautiful papercraft polygons.

In his latest film, The Day After Tomorrow he subjects the Big Apple to a new Ice Age as enormous tidal waves flood the city and then freezes over.

The plotline involves a supposition that the global warming apocalypse that many scientists have been predicted is finally here, and in an accelerated example of such disastrous events, much of the Earth's northern hemisphere suffers from severe flooding, tidal waves and an ice storm that threatens to wipe out practically all life as we know it in those affected regions.

In addition to flooding infrastructure due to sea level rise, coastal cities are vulnerable to damage from storm surge, wave action, and / or inundation of their transportation infrastructure such as roadways, ports, bridges, rail, tunnels, shipyards, and navigational aids.

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They were suddenly in my eyes and mouth as I futilely attempted to wave and swipe them away, and then they flooded my entire face.

Extreme heat waves, droughts, more wildland fires, coastal flooding and erosion, and other forms of habitat destruction are among possible scenarios in the coming decades.

Adventurous trekkers flooded in along with a wave of backpackers looking for cheap grass, (then) easily available opium and something a bit different to do while awaiting the next Ko Pha Ngan full moon party to start.

The shell - shaped ark hotel in China is structured in a way to withstand tidal waves, floods, earthquakes and other natural disasters.

yeah killzone 2 does not use Resistance 2's water at all... in fact I've never seen water that looks like that of killzone 2 yet... it has multiple layers with multiple real - time reflections... but, at least for the big moving water body in the demo... there are no physics like uncharted or R2 incorporated... if you shoot it, there is a huge plume of water that jets upward, but no real ripples in the body... it still looks great, at the ripples wouldn't look right with the waves and the current of the water... but its definitely not an R2 water engine or anything... however killzone 2 does have the ripples in other areas... puddles will react to bullet fire apparently... and there are areas of flooded buildings with «still» water... that do have the uncharted like ripples according to some... but the big flowing river does not...