Sentences with word «inundation»

Comparison of 1850's Government surrveys with recent surveys does not seem to show 4 miles of inundation of coastal tidelands.

Human - made structures, such as levees and canals, have changed the regular patterns of tidal inundation in coastal wetlands and have become a main element in determining coastal wetland distribution.

As I wrote in a cover story last month, massive sheets of ice in Antarctica essentially hold humanity hostage, placing hundreds of millions of people at risk of inundation from rising seas.

Sea - level rise will not only threaten some coastal areas with inundation but also allow storm surge to push farther inland, exposing more areas to coastal flood hazards.

If, however, sea levels rise along the high scenario, those communities face the risk of chronic inundation by 2100.

San Francisco, in its complaint, included a map showing water inundation for the city with 66 inches of sea level rise plus 42 inches of flooding from a 100 - year storm, a scenario they called «unlikely, but possible.»

Watts, J. D., et al. (2014), Surface water inundation in the boreal - Arctic: Potential impacts on regional methane emissions, Environ.

The building elevation is based on tsunami inundation maps suggesting that 90 percent of all possible tsunamis would generate water depths of 4.5 meters — at the city hall site.

By 2060, about 270 communities will face chronic inundation with intermediate sea level rise.

Permanent inundation from sea level rise remains on the horizon, but storm surges and coastal flooding are becoming more frequent today.

What's particularly notable and disturbing about the situation in crowded delta regions like Bangladesh is that the rise in sea levels is, for the moment at least, not even close to the main driver of inundation risk.

A half - dozen of these raised public spaces could save as many as 100,000 people from the threat of inundation during storms and tsunamis.

«Flood hazard may increase, because of sea - level rise, leading to lowered protection levels from coastal defences and potentially higher inundation levels,» said Bouwer.

The flood inundation zone in New York City encompassed approximately 88,700 buildings, which contained 300,000 homes and 23,000 businesses, and left two million people without electricity.

Based on the detected changes observed, they were able to determine the extent of tidal inundations along the Louisiana coast.

While complete inundation by rising tides is the ultimate issue, cities do not have to face such drowning to fall under threat.

This will further increase the risk of coastal inundations as sea levels gradually rise stemming from warming oceans and melting ice caps.

But while a declaration released ahead of those meetings noted that climate change is causing resource scarcity that has led to population displacements, the issue rarely came up during the two - day marathon of national statements — except from island nations facing inundation from sea - level rise.

Papa, F., C. Prigent, and W.B. Rossow, 2007: Ob» River flood inundations from satellite observations: A relationship with winter snow parameters and river runoff.

We are particularly interested in investigating possible recent trends in inundation dynamics and their interactions with the global methane cycle.

1: The sea level map they used shows inundation from sea level rise with 6 feet of sea level rise from mean higher high water (MHHW).

«This includes record numbers and record intensity of hurricanes and typhoons, record widespread heavy rains and flooding — think Houston, Louisiana, the Carolinas (Hurricane Matthew) and now California — record drought, heatwaves and wild fires, and increasing inundations in coastal regions from rising sea level.»

Animations created by Assistant Research Scientist David Forrest show the accuracy of the sub-grid inundation model in stunning detail.

Such inundations are becoming more common, according to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, among other disaster statistics keepers.

If engineers were to spray about 10 million metric tons of sulfur dioxide droplets into the stratosphere each year between 2020 and 2070, the number of storm surge inundations produced by large hurricanes each year after 2070 drops by about half, the researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

It is permanently waterlogged, with a gradient of saline to fresh water arising from regular tidal inundation at the seaward fringe and freshwater flooding from inland.

«Our analysis showed that tidal inundation along Louisiana's coastline is restricted to narrow areas due to the presence of human - made canals and levees that disrupt the regular tidal flow through the coastal wetlands,» said study co-author Shimon Wdowinski, a research professor of marine geosciences at the UM Rosenstiel School.

Three major coastal natural resources — agriculture, mangroves and aquaculture farms — and the dependent communities are at a high risk of inundation due to rising sea level, the study confirmed.

At the EPA, Dr. Carter integrated the effects of climate change into estimates of future coastal inundation on contaminated lands, such as brownfields and superfund sites, to help guide decisions on adaptation efforts that could better protect nearby communities from the spread of dangerous contaminants during future floods.

- No 4 miles inundation of NC Tidelands over 150 years is visible.

«The bright line on a map is an illusion,» he said, particularly in flat places like Houston, where a slight change in flood waters can result in far more widespread inundation.

Storm Surge Warnings, which are now issued as a routine part of NHC guidance, indicate where life - threatening inundation from rising water moving inland is possible within the next 36 hours.

While perhaps more mundane than the megaboulders (found only locally on Eleuthera), the sedimentological structures found within chevron ridge and runup deposits across islands throughout the Bahamas and Bermuda point to frequent and repeated inundation by powerful storm waves, in some locations leaving storm deposits tens of meters above sea level.

Some areas of black box woodland targeted by this watering action have not experienced inundation in over 20 years.

Should colonial bird breeding occur, we will work with the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage to support breeding by providing environmental water to continue inundation if required.

Rather, with looming deadlines at work, financial burdens, social pressure and the constant inundation of information, it's safe to say that for the majority of the Western World we are stressed for the most part of a day, most days.

Given that more than half a billion people live within a few meters of modern sea level, he said punctuated sea - level rise poses a particular risk to those communities that are not prepared for future inundation.

«What will happen, more than likely, is that you'll have one big hurricane, and you'll get a big inundation into the city,» Purkis said.

He is currently working with coastal oceanographers to estimate storm inundation hazard.

Global climate change and local land subsidence exacerbate inundation risk to the San Francisco Bay Area

VIMS Dean & Director John Wells calls the results of the team's sub-grid inundation model a «breakthrough» in storm - tide forecasting — with model output within 6 to 8 inches of the water levels recorded in New York City during Sandy by the U.S. Geological Survey.

Without using written languages, Australian tribes passed memories of life before, and during, post-glacial shoreline inundations through hundreds of generations as high - fidelity oral history.

And in an era of accelerating rises in sea levels those effects «may be catastrophic», says Pethick, «causing inundation of coastal flood defences».

So, in actuality, for current conditions and a quite plausible worst - case hurricane situation, one could have much more inundation of NY right now than the movie was showing for what could happen over this century or longer as a result of sea level rise.