Sentences with phrase «occurrences of extreme events»

Many such events are known and have been reported for the Mediterranean, a region where high - frequency occurrences of these extreme events coincides with some of the most densely populated coastal areas in the world.

«There is strong evidence that changing occurrences of extreme events are related to climate change, and that such changes will continue with further climate change,» the group writes.

Additionally, Nassim Taleb, in his now famous work The Black Swan discussed the disconnect between traditional statistical measures (such as standard deviation) and the occurrence of extreme events

We have begun a study of the variability of temperature, and the rate of occurrence of extreme events.

The occurrence of extreme events requires careful analysis.

Not exact matches

The Raising Risk Awareness project seeks to assess the contribution of anthropogenic climate change and other external drivers (e.g.» El Niño») to the occurrence of extreme weather events in developing countries in East Africa and South East Asia, and identify how such information could help to bridge the science - communications policy gap, and enable these countries and communities to become more climate resilient.

Increasing atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide do not only cause global warming, but probably also trigger increased occurrences of extreme weather events such as long - lasting droughts, heat - waves, heavy rainfall events or extreme storms.

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.

A high occurrence of new record - events is an indication of a change in the «tails» of the frequency distribution and thus that values that in the past were considered extreme are becoming more common.

However, there have been some good scientific studies indicating that the occurrence of extreme climate events might have increased as a result of climate change.

Climate modelling with improved resolutions has demonstrated the capability to diagnose the probability of occurrence of short - term extreme events under global warming (Meehl et al., 2007).

Concurrent Events: Dowdy and Catto's (2017) storm / extreme weather analysis found: «The highest risk of extreme precipitation and extreme wind speeds is found to be associated with a triple storm type characterized by concurrent cyclone, front and thunderstorm occurrences.»

Understanding the role of human emissions in the occurrence of such extreme fire events can lend insight into how these events might change in the future.

The result would be «more occurrences of devastating weather events and more frequent swings of opposite extremes from one year to the next, with profound socio - economic consequences.»

Many of us are witness to increasingly «freak» occurrences like floods, storms, drought and other extreme weather events.

The study concludes that an increase in «super La Ninas» will mean «more occurrences of devastating weather events, and more frequent swings of opposite extremes from one year to the next, with profound socio - economic consequences.»

By the end of this century the projections show that the intensified wind impacts of strong El Niño and La Niña events are likely to double the frequency of extreme sea level occurrences, especially in the tropical southwestern Pacific.

«Climate variability refers to variations in the mean state and other statistics (such as standard deviations, the occurrence of extremes, etc.) of the climate on all temporal and spatial scales beyond that of individual weather events.

Extreme weather attribution is however an emerging and rapidly advancing science, and there is increasing capacity to estimate the change in magnitude and occurrence of specific types of extreme events in a warming world.

The Raising Risk Awareness project seeks to assess the contribution of anthropogenic climate change and other external drivers (e.g.» El Niño») to the occurrence of extreme weather events in developing countries in East Africa and South East Asia, and identify how such information could help to bridge the science - communications policy gap, and enable these countries and communities to become more climate resilient.

Global food production and food security are threatened by the greater variability of the climate and increasing occurrence of extreme weather events.

This report discusses our current understanding of the mechanisms that link declines in Arctic sea ice cover, loss of high - latitude snow cover, changes in Arctic - region energy fluxes, atmospheric circulation patterns, and the occurrence of extreme weather events; possible implications of more severe loss of summer Arctic sea ice upon weather patterns at lower latitudes; major gaps in our understanding, and observational and / or modeling efforts that are needed to fill those gaps; and current opportunities and limitations for using Arctic sea ice predictions to assess the risk of temperature / precipitation anomalies and extreme weather events over northern continents.

This project generated important knowledge on how the vulnerability of agriculture could be reduced and how the buffering ability and resilience could be improved with regard to climate change, climate variability, and changes in the occurrence and strength of extreme weather events.

These simulations are used to determine the extent to which the risk of occurrence of extreme weather events is attributable to human - induced climate change.

Therefore attribution is a key aspect of the understanding of climate change risks, many of which are associated with the occurrence of extreme weather or climate events.

But, as far as what we can expect from the IPCC and what the consensus science is, climate change is likely to lead to increased occurrences and intensity of extreme weather events like heavy rainfall, droughts, warm spells, storm surges, heat waves and sea level rise.

All forcings (anthropogenic and natural, ALL) are necessary to explain the occurrence of SIE events more extreme than the current record minima (2012 for Sep., 2015 for Mar.), but not yet sufficient.

Climate change is not only warming, it is mostly the escalating occurrence of extreme weather events.

The ones I've read about (here in Realclimate, mostly) seem to find that global warming is resulting in a modest increase in the likelihood of occurrence of specific extreme events.

The SREX clearly found a major increase in heat waves and extreme precipitation events, and in order to adapt to these occurrences, the intensity and frequency of which is likely to increase, it would be essential to take in hand urgently certain low regrets measures.

Many impacts of climate change will be realised as the result of a change in the frequency of occurrence of extreme weather events such as windstorms, tornados, hail, heatwaves, gales, heavy precipitation or extreme temperatures over a few hours to several days.