Sentences with phrase «of coastal storms»

The Brandon area and much of the rest of Florida gets a staggering number of coastal storms every year, with the resulting damage that the rest of the country sees on television.

Within the next 15 years, higher sea levels combined with storm surge will likely increase the average annual cost of coastal storms along the Eastern Seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico by $ 2 billion to $ 3.5 billion.

It warns that within the next 15 years, higher sea levels alone will likely increase the average annual cost of coastal storms along the eastern seaboard and Gulf of Mexico by $ 2 billion to $ 3.5 billion.

Prior to this, Christian was a Postdoc and Research Associate at PCIC, investigating model simulations of coastal storms for the Marine Environmental Observation Prediction and Response Network (MEOPAR).

Sea - level rise threatens the long - term viability of island communities by exacerbating the impacts of coastal storms, flooding infrastructure and ecosystems, and contaminating freshwater supplies with seawater.

The assessment considered the impacts of several key drivers of climate change: sea level change; alterations in precipitation patterns and subsequent delivery of freshwater, nutrients, and sediment; increased ocean temperature; alterations in circulation patterns; changes in frequency and intensity of coastal storms; and increased levels of atmospheric CO2.

Increasing rates of sea - level rise and intensity and frequency of coastal storms and hurricanes over the next decades will increase threats to shorelines, wetlands, and coastal development.

Estuaries are places where rivers meet the sea, providing nursery habitat for fish and shellfish while buffering many coastal communities from the impacts of coastal storms and sea level rise.

«Within the next 15 years, higher sea levels combined with storm surge will likely increase the average annual cost of coastal storms along the Eastern Seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico by $ 2 billion to $ 3.5 billion,» the report says.

Not exact matches

The National Weather Service has warned of the storm's intensity and strong, damaging winds that can result in downed trees, power outages, and coastal flooding.

Residents of low - lying areas in densely populated Miami - Dade County were urged to move to higher ground by Wednesday as a precaution against coastal storm surges, three days before Irma was expected to make landfall in Florida.

The threat of dangerous mudslides will grow on Thursday as a storm rolls through coastal California.

Some areas of Puerto Rico saw around 9 feet of storm surge, the coastal flooding that is often the most deadly component of a hurricane.

When Hurricane Irma was advancing toward Florida in early September, weather officials were looking at a very scary scenario: an extremely powerful Category 4 or 5 storm hitting with 150 mph winds, flooding rains, and up to 15 feet of storm surge for coastal cities like Miami and Tampa.

Brokers try to polish the image of South Florida's coastal homes South Florida's luxury market made it through Hurricane Irma mostly intact, but now agents and brokers are trying to polish the appeal of storm - prone coastal communities.

Damage and flooding was reported in some coastal communities that saw more than 500,000 people evacuate ahead of the storm.

Some of the worst damage appeared to be in Rockport, a coastal city of about 10,000 that was directly in the storm's path.

(CNN)- A giant statue of Jesus apparently survived Typhoon Haiyan unscathed, even as the massive storm flattened many parts of Tanauan, a coastal town in the central Philippines.

Next week could bring a fourth coastal storm this month to the Northeast, and several more could be on the way during the rest of March.

NEW YORK — Residents in the areas of New York hit hardest by a powerful coastal storm could be without power into the early part of next week.

On topic questions included funding for items in the City's SIRR report and whether there is an alternative source for such items, whether the mayor is satisfied with the pace of City spending of federal money for Sandy relief, whether the mayor is confident of reaching his 500 construction starts and 500 reimbursement checks by Labor Day, Comptroller Scott Stringer's report on a lack of oversight on spending by the Department of Homeless Services, whether the City has the «right formula» for Build It Back, the total number of homes damaged by Sandy and when all will reached through Build It Back, how many of the 132 construction starts to date are repairs and how many are rebuilds and whether the mayor has closely examined the City's emergency management system in the context of preparing for a future coastal storm.

The council also passed legislation Wednesday that will force the city to study the impacts of extreme weather, including severe heat, rain storms and coastal flooding, to help better prepare the city for the next Hurricane Irene.

At 10 a.m., de Blasio attends an interagency coastal storm plan exercise meeting, Office of Emergency Management Situation Room, 165 Cadman Plaza East, Brooklyn.

High winds, dangerous rip currents and potential coastal flooding could turn parts of Long Island into a soggy and treacherous mess as the area braces for a glancing but powerful blow from Hurricane Jose — one of two strong tropical storms on the National Hurricane Center's watch list.

It's very difficult to pin point a forecast beyond a couple of days with respect to coastal storms.

Rising sea levels caused by a warming climate threaten greater future storm damage to New York City, but the paths of stronger future storms may shift offshore, changing the coastal risk for the city, according to a team of climate scientists.

«Sea level is rising and higher sea level increases the damages from coastal storms,» said Richard B. Alley, Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences, Penn State.

«While sea level rise sets the conditions for landward displacement of the shore, coastal storms supply the energy to do the «geologic work» by moving the sand off and along the beach,» writes Leatherman on his DrBeach.org website.

Causing an estimated $ 108 billion in property damage, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on Aug. 29, 2005 and flooded 85 percent of the city after its levees were breached by a surge of storm and coastal waters.

«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.

Topsoil and natural vegetation would ordinarily filter many of these pollutants out, but the impermeable pavement that covers much of the surface where these pollutants originate carries it right into storm drains and into streams, rivers, lakes and the ocean where it can poison marine life — which we might eat — as well as entire riparian or coastal ecosystems.

As a result, estimates of coastal vulnerability — which once focussed on sea level rise — now have to factor in changing patterns of storm erosion, more intense storms, and other coastal effects.

A 2008 study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development examined the risk of exposure to coastal flooding caused by storm surge for 136 port cities around the world.

COVER An aggressive storm that battered the coastal town of Blackpool, United Kingdom, in January 2007.

As soon as his team hears of an approaching coastal storm, the members head out to monitor the damage (see «A week in the life of a storm chaser», page 49).

Storms that battered Australia's east coast are a harbinger of things to come and a stark reminder of the need for a national effort to monitor the growing threat from climate change, UNSW coastal researchers warn.

Since the first project of its kind in the U.S. at Coney Island, N.Y., in 1922, coastal managers have used beach nourishment — essentially importing sand to replace sediment lost through storms or erosion — to restore damaged beaches, but it is laborious and expensive.

A computer model developed, in part, by University of Florida researchers can help coastal managers better understand the long - term effects of major storms, sea - level rise and beach restoration activities and possibly save millions of dollars.

New research predicts that coastal regions may face massive increases in damages from storm surge flooding over the course of the 21st century.

This El Nino event brings drought to Indonesia and parts of Australia, and storms and landslides to normally arid coastal regions of Peru and Ecuador.

Prompt action is needed most in Asia and Africa where, today, large parts of the coastal population are already affected by storm surge flooding.

With a warming climate battering the coast with more severe storms, the research suggests that, to protect coastal communities, managers may want to give weight to the virtues of the non-native species.

Less was heard about another set of models that had attempted to predict how high the storm surge would be, a rough guide to how much coastal land might be flooded.

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The findings suggest that the trees shield the coastline (pdf) by reducing the height and energy of ocean waves and offer hard evidence that deforestation could result in increased coastal damage from storms.

«As an archaeologist who studies Arctic and Subarctic coastal peoples, erosion associated with intense storm activity, loss of permafrost, rising sea levels, and increasing human activity is devastating to comprehend; however, this study not only documents those processes, but provides a means to examine their highly variable impacts that, hopefully, can lead to constructive ways to prioritize research and mitigate destructive processes in this extremely important region.»

One of the most powerful storms ever recorded killed at least 10,000 people in the central Philippines, a senior police official said on Sunday, with huge waves sweeping away coastal villages and devastating one of the main cities in the region.

NOAA is also making its previously experimental storm surge watches and warnings operational this year, in an effort to better prepare coastal areas under threat of flooding.

The good news is that none of the institute's 200 staff members were hurt as the storm made landfall just a few dozen kilometers to the east of the coastal station, which focuses on conducting ecological, fisheries, and biogeochemistry research.

The latest assessment also did not account for the effects of extreme weather except for coastal flooding due to sea - level rise and storm surge.