Sentences with phrase «numbers of heatwave»

Stockholm and Rome could expect the greatest increase in numbers of heatwave days, while Prague and Vienna could see the greatest increases in maximum temperatures.

In 2011 and 2012, the number of heatwaves was almost triple the long - term average.

The number of heatwaves observed in 2011 and 2012 were triple the long - term average, and require planning for economic, health and environmental tolls.

Lord Deben claimed that climate change will cause «much greater numbers of heatwaves one end and flooding at the other, and some parts of the country, like the east of England, with very little water andother parts with huge amounts of water», and that «Bangladesh will practically be unable to be lived in», which will in turn cause «170million displaced people wandering around the world».

Whereas Lord Deben claimed that «the climate will then become much more difficult to live in, even in this country, with much short — with much greater numbers of heatwaves one end and flooding at the other, and some parts of the country, like the east of England, with very little water and other parts with huge amounts of water», and that «The science is not based on computer modelling» the Met Office advised that:

Not exact matches

A study published yesterday in Nature Communications suggests that there's been a 54 percent increase in the number of annual «marine heatwave days» since the 1920s — that is, the total number of days each year that a marine heat wave is occurring somewhere around the world.

Stockholm and Rome would see the greatest increase in the number of heat - wave days, and Prague and Vienna will see the largest spike in maximum temperatures during a heatwave.

Some years ago in the US there was a heatwave and a number of people died.

The hot air issued from regions where deaths from 2015 heatwaves numbered in the hundreds and thousands, where hospitalizations numbered in the tens of thousands.

Fraction of attributable risk puts a number value on the influence that a particular factor (e.g., smoking or carbon dioxide) had on a particular event (e.g., lung cancer or a heatwave, respectively).

A number of climate scientists are currently investigating the possible link between abnormal jet streams and the rapid loss of Arctic sea ice, which if true would mean climate change may not only be exacerbating heatwaves but cold spells as well.

«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.»

Combined with heatwaves and global warming, both of which are also on the rise, these hotspots are producing conditions that kill and hospitalise growing numbers of people.

Now, without going to the trouble of a Baysian probability analysis (which would just be putting numbers to educated guesswork), I think there is good reason to consider the Russian Heatwave sufficiently improbable on the assumption of no warming (relative to its probability on the assumption of GW) that it is worth independant recognition as evidence of the warming globe instead of just being burried under a mob of other statistics.

By comparing the numbers of extreme temperature and drought events in the two ensembles, we can work out if the risk of a heatwave or drought has increased, decreased or been unaffected by human influence on climate.

I chose this form of building because I am concerned about climate change and the increasing number and intensity of heatwaves we can expect in the future. . .

These same people, on the other hand, would dismiss the 2003 heatwave across western Europe (with well - publicised increases in the numbers of elderly people dying in France) as extreme weather caused by a blocked area of high pressure.

There were a number of major heatwaves during 2016.