Sentences with phrase «increasing storm frequency»

Islanders have expressed their concerns about the impact of climate change and the visible changes that are already occurring: increased erosion, strong winds, land accretion, increasing storm frequency and rougher seas of a sort that elders have never seen or heard of before.

Climate impacts that could affect the DOD's nearly 7,600 sites worldwide include hotter temperatures, rising sea levels and increasing storm frequency and intensity

Not exact matches

We know that storms will continue to come — extreme weather events are increasing in frequency all over the world.

The report found, among other things, that 43 of the lower 48 U.S. states have set at least one monthly heat record since 2010, sea levels are expected to rise between one and four feet by the end of this century, winter storms have increased in intensity and frequency, and the past decade was warmer than every previous decade in every part of the country.

The MetroWest region of Massachusetts is experiencing climate change through more intense storm events, punctuated by increased frequency of droughts, which are only expected to worsen.

«We conclude that coastal communities are facing a looming crisis due to climate change related sea - level rise, one that will manifest itself as increased frequency of Sandy - like inundation disasters in the coming decades along the mid-Atlantic and elsewhere, from storms with less intensity and lower storm surge than Sandy,» Sweet said.

Large power outages are expected to become more frequent as the result of a changing climate, where the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events is increasing, as well as geomagnetic storms and attacks on grid infrastructure.

But in terms of the frequency of these kinds of storms, we have strong evidence that storm surge will increase (on average) with sea level rise.

Joint research from the Monash branch of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science (ARCCSS) and NASA published in Nature found even though other types of rainfall has decreased in frequency and the total number of thunderstorms remained the same, the increase in big storms had elevated total rainfall.

Although average summer storm activity decreases, the most intense winter storms are projected to increase in frequency under continued global warming.

Higher sea levels will increase the extent and frequency of flooding from such storms.

«As the variability and intensity of storms increase in the world, we need to reevaluate what the frequency of these major storms could be,» Feinberg said.

Floods due to sea - level rise, storm surges and heavy rain will increase in frequency.

To understand the increased frequency in tornado outbreaks, the researchers looked at two factors: convective available potential energy, or CAPE, and storm relative helicity, which is a measure of vertical wind shear.

This is due to the large natural variability in the frequency and intensity of tropical storms (e.g., due to the El Niño Southern Oscillation), which complicate the detection of long - term trends and their attribution to increasing greenhouse gases.

Mid-latitude winter storms have increased in both intensity and frequency nationally since 1950.

Heat waves are hotter, heavy rain events are heavier, and winter storms have increased in both frequency and intensity.

Also, unlike the bulk of climate models to date, the increase in odds of extreme storms found in the study stems both from a shift toward more intense hurricanes as well as an overall increase in hurricane frequency.

As the climate changes, tropical cyclones are expected to produce more rain and the frequency of the highest intensity storms is projected to increase even though the overall number of storms may remain unchanged or perhaps even decrease.

Confidence in the latter is not related to TC intensity or frequency; it comes from the probable increase in heavy rain events and the inevitable rise in sea level that will make it easier for storm surges to go inland.

• increases in malnutrition and consequent disorders, with implications for child growth and development; • increased deaths, disease and injury due to heat waves, floods, storms, fires and droughts; • the increased burden of diarrheal disease; • the increased frequency of cardio - respiratory diseases due to higher concentrations of ground - level ozone related to climate change; and, • the altered spatial distribution of some infectious disease vectors.

Increasing rates of sea - level rise and intensity and frequency of coastal storms and hurricanes over the next decades will increase threats to shorelines, wetlands, and coastal development.

The assessment considered the impacts of several key drivers of climate change: sea level change; alterations in precipitation patterns and subsequent delivery of freshwater, nutrients, and sediment; increased ocean temperature; alterations in circulation patterns; changes in frequency and intensity of coastal storms; and increased levels of atmospheric CO2.

Climate models suggest that human activities, specifically the emission of atmospheric greenhouse gases, may lead to increases in the frequency of severe storms in certain regions of the Northern Hemisphere.

This rhythm in storm frequency may explain some of the recently observed increases in extreme precipitation events.

BTW, the prediction is for storm intensity to increase due to higher sea surface temperatures (a rather obvious conclusion), frequency is debated.

At the end of their comment # 27 the authors state «Turning to very important question of the frequency of the strongest storms, it is entirely possible that a large increase in category 4 - 5 storms will result from increasing greenhouse gases, despite an overall reduction in hurricane numbers.

My geography text says they've about doubled in frequency since 1990 and that the frequency of the higher intensity storms has also increased significantly.

Since this is the case, that the ENSO cycle is so much shorter, there is no relation between the two phenomena (ENSO and GW), with the exception that GW may trigger a change in the nature of ENSO, increasing its frequency (i.e. reducing the time it takes to complete a cycle) and / or increasing its intensity (putting people in affected areas at risk of experiencing worse famine - causing droughts, flooding, and storms).

In the paper I state that there is no evidence that storm frequency, intensity, or duration increased in the 20th century.

Some researchers have found that the frequency of mid-latitude storms may have dropped slightly over the European continent, but there have also been indications that the frequency of storms has increased elsewhere (the North Atlantic storm track — Iceland / Norwegian sea).

The frequency of the most intense storms will more likely than not increase in some basins.

Even without changing intensity or frequency of storms, the impact of associated storm surges increases with increasing sea levels.

In light of these recent papers I would change the language to state «the evidence does not consistently support an increase in the frequency or intensity of major storms».

«Century of Data Shows Intensification of Water Cycle but No Increase in Storms or Floods Released: 3/15/2006 12:13:21 PM» (excerpt) A review of the findings from more than 100 peer - reviewed studies shows that although many aspects of the global water cycle have intensified, including precipitation and evaporation, this trend has not consistently resulted in an increase in the frequency or intensity of tropical storms or floods over the past Increase in Storms or Floods Released: 3/15/2006 12:13:21 PM» (excerpt) A review of the findings from more than 100 peer - reviewed studies shows that although many aspects of the global water cycle have intensified, including precipitation and evaporation, this trend has not consistently resulted in an increase in the frequency or intensity of tropical storms or floods over the past ceStorms or Floods Released: 3/15/2006 12:13:21 PM» (excerpt) A review of the findings from more than 100 peer - reviewed studies shows that although many aspects of the global water cycle have intensified, including precipitation and evaporation, this trend has not consistently resulted in an increase in the frequency or intensity of tropical storms or floods over the past increase in the frequency or intensity of tropical storms or floods over the past cestorms or floods over the past century.

-- How about THIS: «Thus the weight of evidence points to increasing potential intensity in the region where Pam developed, and consistent with this, increasing intensity of the highest category storms based on satellite - derived measurements» — How about THIS: «All of this is consistent with the strengthening consensus that the frequency of high category tropical cyclones should increase as the planet warms (Knutson et al., 2010).»

Some people have suggested that if SST (& GW) is increasing hurricane intensity, it seems logical it would also be increasing hurricane frequency (all other things being equal — which I suppose they may not be), since the storms are moving up in category: 1 to 2, 2 to 3, etc., then some «tropical storms» would also be moving up to Cat.

I thought of some way in which you could get more intensity, without increased frequency: Perhaps hurricanes & tropical storms are clubbing together into more intense storms (what would have been 2 hurricanes given lower SST, become 1 more intense hurricane, given the higher SST).

Eventually, if not right now, we would expect to see increase in storm intensity and perhaps frequency in a globally warming world, all things being equal... which they are not, since even weathermen can't well predict next week's weather due to some butterfly flapping it's wings in Japan gumming up the wind system.

I can not envision physically that the hydrologic cycle can intensify and there not be an increase in storm frequency and intensity of floods and droughts.

I wonder how much certainty there is that global warming is NOT causing increased intensity (perhaps also frequency) of storms.

In New Orleans, geophysical vulnerability is characterized by its below - sea level, bowl - shaped location, its accelerating subsidence, rising sea level, storm surges, and possible increased frequency of larger hurricanes from climate change.

-- Increases in intensity and frequency of heat waves and extreme precipitation events (a category in which it includes droughts, floods, hurricanes and major storms)

«Future projections based on theory and high - resolution dynamical models consistently suggest that greenhouse warming will cause the globally averaged intensity of tropical cyclones to shift towards stronger storms,» Knutson et al. (2010); Grinsted et al. (2013) projected «a twofold to sevenfold increase in the frequency of Katrina magnitude events for a 1 °C rise in global temperature.»

They include soaring temperatures, declining late - season snowpack, northward - shifted winter storm tracks, increasing precipitation intensity, the worst drought since measurements began, steep declines in Colorado River reservoir storage, widespread vegetation mortality, and sharp increases in the frequency of large wildfires.

Climate models suggest increasing frequency of, and greater damage from, violent storms is the result of global cooling, not warming... and so on and so forth.

From the evidence I have seen, there seems to be decent evidence that storm power has increased but not frequency, which of course varies by region of the world.

Tornadoes, twisting winds that descend from thunderheads, and derechos, winds that race ahead of a straight line of storms, are just two varieties of extreme weather events whose frequency and violence are on the increase.

India could witness an increase in the severity and frequency of dust storms and thunderstorms due to rising global temperatures, experts say.

Confidence is medium that winter storms have increased slightly in frequency and intensity, and that their tracks have shifted northward over the U.S.