Sentences with phrase «intense storm pattern»
But as the third in a two - week - long parade of extreme events, the presently intense storm pattern is starting to look more than a little outlandish.
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As a result, estimates of coastal vulnerability — which once focussed on sea level rise — now have to factor in changing patterns of storm erosion, more intense storms, and other coastal effects.
Key weather and climate drivers of health impacts include increasingly frequent, intense, and longer - lasting extreme heat, which worsens drought, wildfire, and air pollution risks; increasingly frequent extreme precipitation, intense storms, and changes in precipitation patterns that lead to drought and ecosystem changes (Ch.
«The storm was so strong, so intense, that the standard climate models that do not resolve fine - scale details were unable to characterize the severe precipitation or large scale meteorological pattern associated with the storm,» said Michael Wehner, a climate scientist in the lab's Computational Research Division and co-author of the paper.
Nevertheless as an environmentalist (trying to avoid false negatives) as opposed to a scientist (trying to avoid false positives), I see nothing wrong in his attribution of Katrina to GW — it could POSSIBILY have been enhanced by GW and it fits the expected pattern of more intense storms due to GW.
Key weather and climate drivers of health impacts include increasingly frequent, intense, and longer - lasting extreme heat, which worsens drought, wildfire, and air pollution risks; increasingly frequent extreme precipitation, intense storms, and changes in precipitation patterns that lead to drought and ecosystem changes (Ch.
A strong El Niño heats up the atmosphere and changes circulation patterns around the globe, especially the jet stream over the Pacific, which becomes stronger and dumps more frequent and intense storms over the western U.S., especially California.
Hurricane Harvey had intense wind and rain because unique wind patterns prevented the storm from moving quickly out of the region.
It is also changing rain and snow patterns and increasing the risk of intense storms and droughts.
The storm fits the current pattern experienced in the warming world in which higher temperatures are driving more intense rainfall events.