Sentences with phrase «of coastal inundations»

This will further increase the risk of coastal inundations as sea levels gradually rise stemming from warming oceans and melting ice caps.

In response, global sea level rises, increasing the threat of coastal inundation during storms.

Below you'll hear from scientists with significant concerns about keystone sections of the paper — on the evidence for «superstorms» in the last warm interval between ice ages, the Eemian, and on the pace at which seas could rise and the imminence of any substantial uptick in the rate of coastal inundation.

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«However, our findings show that sea - level rise could be considerably faster than anything yet observed, and because of this situation, coastal communities need to be prepared for potential inundation.»

«We conclude that coastal communities are facing a looming crisis due to climate change related sea - level rise, one that will manifest itself as increased frequency of Sandy - like inundation disasters in the coming decades along the mid-Atlantic and elsewhere, from storms with less intensity and lower storm surge than Sandy,» Sweet said.

At the same time, rising sea levels due to climate change increasingly threaten low - lying coastal communities with inundation and beach erosion — and stressed corals may not be able to grow vertically fast enough to match the pace of sea level rise.

In India, for instance, 5700 square kilometres of coastal area are at risk of inundation, and 7.1 million people could be displaced (see Diagram).

Instead, the report focuses on problems that are likely to disproportionately hit developing countries: coastal inundation from rising sea levels, plummeting food production and associated malnutrition, unprecedented heat waves, increasing fresh water scarcity, more frequent and intense tropical cyclones, and the loss of biodiversity.

And in an era of accelerating rises in sea levels those effects «may be catastrophic», says Pethick, «causing inundation of coastal flood defences».

V., and Archetti, R.: Simulation of tsunami generation, propagation and coastal inundation in the Eastern Mediterranean, Ocean Sci., 11, 643 - 655, doi: 10.5194 / os -11-643-2015, 2015.

In addition to flooding infrastructure due to sea level rise, coastal cities are vulnerable to damage from storm surge, wave action, and / or inundation of their transportation infrastructure such as roadways, ports, bridges, rail, tunnels, shipyards, and navigational aids.

One of the biggest potential impacts on human affairs from sustained warming is coastal inundation as warming seas swell and fill with water flowing from melting ice sheets.

The resulting inundation of coastal areas, severe weather impacts and loss of ecosystem services will likely cause major negative impacts for most nations.

They are fearful of the type of inundation that took place in coastal Sri Lanka during the Boxing Day Tsunami.

Evidence from Oregon, one of the states most vulnerable to great earthquakes, points out the challenge of moving from such logic, on paper, to investments in vulnerable schools or coastal communities in the inundation zone for the tsunami that will accompany the next great thrust of the Cascadia fault off the Northwest Coast.

The firm link between rising seas and the rising risk of destructive coastal flooding was also reflected in an analysis of the changed odds of Sandy - style inundations.

Three major coastal natural resources — agriculture, mangroves and aquaculture farms — and the dependent communities are at a high risk of inundation due to rising sea level, the study confirmed.

At the EPA, Dr. Carter integrated the effects of climate change into estimates of future coastal inundation on contaminated lands, such as brownfields and superfund sites, to help guide decisions on adaptation efforts that could better protect nearby communities from the spread of dangerous contaminants during future floods.

INTERACTIVE MAP: Explore the hundreds of US coastal communities that will face chronic inundation and possible retreat as sea levels rise.

Examples of possible applications / users include: warnings of the likelihood of severe high impact weather (droughts, flooding, tropical and extratropical cyclones etc.) to help protect life and property; humanitarian planning and response to disasters; agriculture and disease planning / control (e.g., malaria and meningitis), particularly in developing countries; river - flow and river - discharge for flood prediction, hydroelectric power generation and reservoir management; landslides; coastal inundation; transport; power generation; insurance.

Coastal zones are particularly vulnerable to sea - level rise and enhanced storms, facing serious impacts including: (1) inundation and displacement of wetlands and lowlands; (2) increased coastal erosion; (3) increased coastal storm flooding; and (4) salinization (Barth & Titus, 1984).

As warming climate causes sea level rise, coastal urban areas such as New York City face more frequent and intense episodic flooding following storms and inundation of some low - lying areas (2011-04-26) + Read Science Brief

The main focus of the CIFDP is to facilitate the development of efficient forecasting and warning systems for coastal inundation based on robust science and observations.

Coastal communities are becoming increasingly vulnerable to the risk of damage from coastal inundation.

Through the use of data, visualization, citizen engagement, and simulations, you can help people understand their exposure to coastal inundation hazards and their increased vulnerability due to population increase and sea level rise.

For many regions, an important focus of coastal use planning is to use the coast as a natural system to buffer coastal communities from inundation, working with nature rather than against it, as in the Netherlands.

Increased coastal erosion rates and / or permanent inundation of low - lying areas, threatening coastal power plants

Increased rates of coastal erosion and / or permanent inundation of low - lying areas, causing increased maintenance costs and shortened replacement cycles

By the end of this century, increased rates of sea - level rise (SLR) could cause pcmanent inundation of portions of low - lying coastal cities, repeated flooding episodes, and more severe beach erosion.

Worse yet, on our present trajectory, it seems highly unlikely that the warming process will stop at 2 or even 3 degrees Celsius, meaning that later in this century many of the worst - case climate - change scenarios — the inundation of coastal cities, the desertification of vast interior regions, and the collapse of rain - fed agriculture in many areas — will become everyday reality.

«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.»

Climate models project increasing days of extreme rainfall in the Northwest, Midwest, and parts of the Northeast, including some populated coastal areas that are already challenged by inundation and sea level rise.

Comparison of 1850's Government surrveys with recent surveys does not seem to show 4 miles of inundation of coastal tidelands.

The primary environmental objective of a tax on carbon is to set a price that reflects the «real» costs such emissions impose — accounting for the damages that are expected to arise from global warming, including effects on agricultural productivity and human health, coastal inundation, and other changes.

A wide range of human activities affect marine biodiversity both in direct ways, such as exploitation by fisheries, habitat loss due to dredging, filling, and other construction influences, fishing gear impacts, and pollution, and in less direct ways, including effects of global change resulting in acidification, warmer waters, and coastal inundation.

The result would be further acceleration of sea level rise, putting even more extensive areas of the world's coasts under sentence of inundation: Alexandria, Egypt, Bangladesh's Meghna delta, much of Boston's central business district, and coastal New Jersey, to name just a few (in addition, presumably, to those places already mentioned in Two Degrees.)

For New York City, sea - level rise will accelerate the inundation of coastal wetlands, threaten vital infrastructure and water supplies, augment summertime energy demand, and affect public health (Rosenzweig and Solecki, 2001a; Knowlton et al., 2004; Kinney et al., 2006).

By mapping these fingerprint gradients, they have come up with a new diagnosis tool, referred to as gradient fingerprint mapping (GFM), that readily allows for improved assessments of future coastal inundation or emergence.

After many young people fled in the face of worsening droughts, tropical storms, coral bleaching, coastal inundation and flooding, some are choosing to return