Sentences with phrase «occurrence of hurricanes»

It is possible that because of rising temperatures, the world is experiencing an increase in the occurrence of hurricanes.

While subsequent storms in 1893, 1903, 1938 and a spate in the early 1950s buffeted the region, the sporadic occurrence of hurricanes led the city to spend most of the 20th century planning for snowstorms and garden - variety floods.

Maine has its occurrences of hurricanes, tropical storms, hail and heavy downpours.

Not exact matches

The occurrence of an extreme ecological disturbance, Hurricane Mitch, provided an opportunity to assess a decade of sustainable land management practices in Nicaragua and to see if the practices were actually leading to higher levels of sustainability.

It's not an uncommon occurrence, so I rummaged through an old notebook from the time of Hurricane Sandy and discovered a partially completed post...

In increasing order of suddenness, there are what you might call «steady - state» impacts such as rising sea levels; increased separation of weather into more concentrated wet periods and dry periods; and a greater occurrence of extreme weather events such as hurricanes, floods, heatwaves and droughts.

Because wind shear can not have absolute control over hurricane occurrence does anyone know of a study that relates shallow water heat content and wind shear with hurricane occurrence?

While the changes in both the mean and higher order statistical moments (e.g., variance) of time - series of climate variables affect the frequency of relatively simple extremes (e.g., extreme high daily or monthly temperatures, damaging winds), changes in the frequency of more complex extremes are based on changes in the occurrence of complex atmospheric phenomena (e.g., hurricanes, tornadoes, ice storms).

Because hurricane caused flooding was more prevalent during the Little Ice Age when Atlantic temperatures averaged 1 to 2 degrees F colder than today researchers concluded, «The frequent occurrence of major hurricanes in the western Long Island record suggests that other climate phenomena, such as atmospheric circulation, may have been favorable for intense hurricane development despite lower sea surface temperatures.»

Will they address worst case hurricane level triple storm combinations of «concurrent cyclone, front and thunderstorm occurrences»?

However, many scientists believe that, much as in the case of hurricanes, higher sea temperatures resulting from the greenhouse effect could strengthen the force of El Niño events and increase their rate of occurrence.

To be sure, there is a lot of complexity in the way the change in average global temperature will play out regionally, or in the occurrence of phenomena like hurricanes or forest fires.

[24] For hurricane evacuation studies, a family of storms with representative tracks for the region, and varying intensity, eye diameter, and speed, are modeled to produce worst - case water heights for any tropical cyclone occurrence.

There are a variety of factors that are known to make for quiet Atlantic hurricane seasons — particularly the occurrence of El Nino conditions (as occurred in 2002) in the Pacific Ocean, characterized by very warm tropical ocean waters.

«In their intriguing analysis published in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar - Terrestrial Physics, the four - member research team of Rojo - Garibaldi et al. developed a new database of historical hurricane occurrences in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, spanning twenty - six decades over the period 1749 to 2012.

They will cover the difference between «calendar year» and «occurrence» which are how often you need to pay a percentage of your deductible and «wind / hail,» «named storm,» and «hurricane» all of which deal with when the percentage deductible starts.

Natural disaster protection is meant to protect your home and belongings in the event that a hurricane, tornado, flood or other type of natural occurrence damages your property.

Certain occurrences like floods and hurricanes are not covered by basic renters insurance in Texas, although you can purchase separate coverage protecting you against the risk of these types of circumstances.

Occurrences such as tornadoes, hurricanes and flooding are not generally covered on a basic plan due to the amount of damage these acts of nature cause.

Then, with a volcanic blast, the fury of a tornado or hurricane, an earthquake, a mechanical malfunction, a man initiated attack, or natural occurrences, our surroundings are altered: sometimes permanently.