Sentences with phrase «large flood wave»

From the reports, it sounds as if a storm dumped the water in the upper portion of the basin at an extreme rate, creating the large flood wave.

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You use archeological and geological evidence to support your claim that a huge wave did rip through the middle east where noah was, the flood story evolved from that but then you have to deal with the issues of a tsunami large enough to reach noah from the indian ocean without destroying the entire world.

The Dakota Territory had absorbed a large wave of immigrant homesteaders, a population vulnerable to economic exploitation and political domination by the native born Americans who also flooded into the territory.

North of this point lies the «potato patch,» at the mouth of San Francisco Bay, where a few years ago a wine tanker foundered after a particularly large dollop of water fell off a wave and found its way down the tanker's stack, flooding her engines and sending her to the bottom.

«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.

Mid-latitude islands, such as islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and off the coast of Newfoundland (St. Pierre et Miquelon), are exposed to impacts from tropical, post-tropical, and extra-tropical storms that can produce storm - surge flooding, large waves, coastal erosion, and (in some winter storms) direct sea ice damage to infrastructure and property.

Millions of people will suffer, die and be displaced as a result of extreme heat waves, sea - level rise as much as 100 cm by 2100 with continuing large rates of rise, and by more severe storms, droughts and floods.

The small global mean change, however, is expected to create large problems in sensitive areas of the Earth system — rising sea level leading to increased coastal flooding, more heat waves and drought, and the disappearance of summer Arctic sea ice, to name a few.