Sentences with phrase «most extreme events»

... it is the rarest and the most extreme events - and thereby the ones with typically the highest socio - economic impacts - for which the largest fraction is due to human - induced greenhouse gas emissions.

Most extreme events are temporary and their impacts are reversible.

Following Allen and Ingram (2002), the response of precipitation continues to be studied with a specific focus on the most extreme events.

A 2015 study by Francis and Stephen Vavrus, «Evidence for a wavier jet stream in response to rapid Arctic warming» concluded that global warming was driving an increase in the most extreme events because of «more frequent high - amplitude (wavy) jet - stream configurations that favor persistent weather patterns.»

Because these events were rare before human GHG emissions forced more energy (heat) into the atmosphere, it is reasonable to conclude that AGW is responsible for (is the cause of) the most extreme events.

But soil with 15 % carbon holds a huge amount of water compared to the current levels of closer to an average of 1 or 2 %, thus mitigating most extreme events.

The frequency of large - scale tornado outbreaks is increasing in the United States, particularly when it comes to the most extreme events, according to research recently published in Science.

This means that most extreme events adversely affect fractal scaling.

New research shows that the most extreme events in financial data dynamics - reflected in very large price moves - are incompatible with multi-fractal scaling.

Gravity is the weakest of the four fundamental forces, so only the most extreme events — black holes colliding, neutron stars twirling, a supernova erupting — would produce detectable waves.

In the two and a half decades since then the remnant of Supernova 1987A has continued to be a focus for researchers the world over, providing a wealth of information about one of the Universe's most extreme events.

Extreme value theory (EVT) appears to require discarding all but the most extreme event in a time interval, say a year.

Not exact matches

This is the third and most extreme mass bleaching event in 18 years to strike the Great Barrier Reef, and in each case, the areas that suffered the worst bleaching were the areas where the water was hottest for the longest period of time, Hughes said.

«We know that in particular that [the regions around] Houston, Louisiana, and Florida are prone to some of the most extreme precipitation events in the United States,» said Sarah Kapnick, a researcher at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.

«Today we have unsealed a nine - count indictment that outlines a pattern of self - dealing and corruption that spans decades and covers several events, including the defendant's failed bid to become the Brooklyn District Attorney,» U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Loretta Lynch said during a press conference announcing the charges, where she described Mr. Sampson's alleged conduct as «one of the most extreme examples of political hubris that we have yet seen.»

Marcia Bystryn, President of the New York League of Conservation Voters, said, «The most important lesson New York can learn from Superstorm Sandy is that we must do a better job planning for a changing climate and extreme weather events.

Three extreme weather events in the Amazon Basin in the last decade are giving scientists an opportunity to make observations that will allow them to predict the impacts of climate change and deforestation on some of the most important ecological processes and ecosystem services of the Amazon River wetlands.

The tsunami was at least three times the size of a 1946 tsunami that was the most destructive in Hawaii's recent history, according to the new study that examined deposits believed to have come from the extreme event and used models to show how it might have occurred.

Because gravity is relatively weak, only the most extreme cosmic events — supernovas, spinning neutron stars, colliding black holes — generate waves LIGO can detect.

For more than 10 weeks beginning in January, sea temperatures were between 2 °C and 4 °C warmer than usual along a 2000 - kilometre stretch of coast — the area's most extreme warming event since records began.

Increased jet waviness is associated with a weakening of the jet stream, and the accompanying «blocking» is linked to some of the most extreme UK seasonal weather events experienced over the past decade.

While most previous such work focuses on mean or average values, the authors in this paper acknowledge that climate in the broader sense encompasses variations between years, trends, averages and extreme events.

«Most of the action occurred in changes to extreme heat, with big increases in events similar to the Angry Summer of 2012/13.

A report has looked at which sections of the population are left most exposed to food shortages after extreme weather events.

«Most crop yield simulation models currently in use are not yet suitable for the impact assessment of the various adverse weather conditions or extreme events.

«NuSTAR's unprecedented capability for observing this and similar events allows us to study the most extreme light - bending effects of general relativity.»

Warmer air can carry more moisture, which can lead to more extreme rainfall events, and warmer ocean surface temperatures are known to intensify the most powerful hurricanes.

When compared to standard weather prediction modeling, Roebber's evolutionary methodology performs particularly well on longer - range forecasts and extreme events, when an accurate forecast is needed the most.

But because high - quality weather records go back only about 100 years, most scientists have been reluctant to say if global warming affected particular extreme events.

«We found that most black swan events were caused by things like extreme climate or disease, and often an unexpected combination of factors,» Anderson says.

«Our most difficult tasks as forensic meteorologists are dealing with these extreme events, and how the forensic meteorology, insurance and legal industries are going to react.»

Air and water temperatures, precipitation patterns, extreme rainfall events, and seasonal variations are all known to affect disease transmission.59, 199,86 In the United States, children and the elderly are most vulnerable to serious outcomes, and those exposed to inadequately or untreated groundwater will be among those most affected.

University of Tasmania Professor of Environmental Change Biology David Bowman led an international collaboration — including researchers from the University of Idaho and South Dakota State University — to compile a global satellite database of the intensity of 23 million landscape fires used to identify 478 of the most extreme wildfire events.

Although most species were wiped out by an extreme extinction event millions of years ago, the therapsid Lystrosaurus survived.

According to ClimateWise, a global network of 28 insurance industry organizations, not only is 2017 likely to be the most expensive year on record due to natural disasters and extreme weather events all over the globe, but over the past decade only 30 % of catastrophic losses were insured, leaving a climate risk protection gap of $ 1.7 trillion.

«The impacts of sea level change will be felt most acutely during periods of high sea level, both from this type of interannual (and decadal) variability as well as extreme events,» Church said.

According to a National Research Council Report (See «Severe Space Weather Events — Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts: A Workshop Report» [2008]-RRB-, damages from the most extreme solar storms could range between $ 1 trillion - $ 2 trillion within the first year and four to 10 years for full recovery.

Beyond the long - term record, the past five years have been punctuated by extreme heat events around the globe, the most recent being an

The most diverse and long - lasting effects of extreme events are expected to affect forest ecosystems.

Since marathon is a relatively extreme event for most people, it takes some preparation to do safely.

Instead of focusing on the most extreme, melodramatic events in Christian and Caroline's everyday lives, the helmer smartly chose to instead subtly focus on the couple's increased resentment towards the other's actions and personality.

TSI technology has impressively demonstrated its extreme durability in many car racing events; including on the legendary Nordschleife of the German Nürburgring — the most demanding race course in the world.

This work, which won the National Book Award in nonfiction, is something to behold: a mature writer entirely consumed by a momentous subject and working at the extreme of his considerable powers when national events most conform to his vision.

«the [Marfa Myths] festival is perhaps the most extreme example in a recent trend toward intimate, meticulously curated music events» — NY Times

In Liquidity inc., Steyerl makes one of her characteristic intellectual leaps and connects extreme financial events to extreme climate events: the jet stream of money changes direction when the Dow Jones collapses, then suddenly a gonzo weather forecaster, masked in black, is gesturing across the most political of politically geographical maps you ever saw — noting failed states and off - shore tax havens, isobars indicating flows of capital rather than weather fronts.

The two most fundamental properties of extreme events are that they are rare (by definition) and highly random.

Use the soon to arrive data regarding Haiyan typhoon, especially the two story high storm surges that acted like tsunami waves as base yardstick of what is possible in the most extreme similar event.

We advocate including extreme events in the global planetary health indicators because extreme events have a particularly large impact on human and natural ecosystems — and that's what, ultimately, people care about most.

I think most journalists and laypeople understand the results in some kind of twisted way similar to what Tim formulated, that is, as applicable to a particular extreme event that they're considering, and not to the statistics of these extreme events.

According to one of the most extreme opinion expressed by former Vice President and now Noble Laureate Al Gore in his book entitled «An Inconvenient Truth», we can be certain to see catastrophic events such as droughts, floods, epidemics, killer heat waves, etc. as a result of global warming.