Sentences with phrase «of extreme weather phenomena»

The following are a couple of extreme weather phenomena and how global warming can exacerbate them.

also linked a number of extreme weather phenomena to climate change in a floor speech, including tornadoes.

From heat waves to downpours, a number of extreme weather phenomena have become more common or severe due to climate change.

Not exact matches

The strength and path of the North Atlantic jet stream and the Greenland blocking phenomena appear to be influenced by increasing temperatures in the Arctic which have averaged at least twice the global warming rate over the past two decades, suggesting that those marked changes may be a key factor affecting extreme weather conditions over the UK, although an Arctic connection may not occur each year.

During periods of extreme dry weather caused by El Niño and a phenomenon called the positive Indian Ocean Dipole, smoke emissions are considerably higher — either because farmers are taking advantage of the dry weather to burn more land or because once burning, the fires are more difficult to control.

«Any kind of extreme weather is at most only loosely controlled by coherent, predictable climate phenomena like ENSO, and tornadoes are no exception,» said coauthor Adam Sobel, who also is at Columbia's engineering school, as well as its Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory.

It highlighted a series of global weather phenomena that resulted from this stratosphere - troposphere «coupling» — such as the cold European winters and occurrences of extreme temperatures over eastern North America.

That's one area of research that we are working on currently which has a really big impact on extreme weather events and it's this kind of phenomena that we need to understand much better.

But you must distinguish between this phenomenon and any phenomenon of greater severity or frequency of extreme weather events.

This result would be strongly dependent on the exact dynamic response of the Greenland ice sheet to surface meltwater, which is modeled poorly in todays global models.Yes human influence on the climate is real and we might even now be able to document changes in the behavior of weather phenomena related to disasters (e.g., Emanuel 2005), but we certainly haven't yet seen it in the impact record (i.e., economic losses) of extreme events.

Yes human influence on the climate is real and we might even now be able to document changes in the behavior of weather phenomena related to disasters (e.g., Emanuel 2005), but we certainly haven't yet seen it in the impact record (i.e., economic losses) of extreme events.

In recent decades, this warming was accompanied by the constant rising of the sea level, and it is also hard not to relate it with the rise in extreme weather events, regardless of the fact that we can not attribute a scientifically determined cause to each phenomenon in particular.

Mental illness is one of the major causes of suffering in the United States, and extreme weather events can affect mental health in several ways.113, 223,114,115,116 First, following disasters, mental health problems increase, both among people with no history of mental illness, and those at risk — a phenomenon known as «common reactions to abnormal events.»

Telling quote: «We can not make a causal link between increase in greenhouse gases and the costs of damage associated with hurricanes, floods, and extreme weather phenomena.»

One of Pielke's main additions to larger climate debate has been participation in studies and workshops that have concluded, in his words, «We can not make a causal link between increase in greenhouse gases and the costs of damage associated with hurricanes, floods, and extreme weather phenomena.»

«Myth 4» was that extreme weather phenomena are increasing because of global warming.)

For example, let's say that evidence convinced me (in a way that I wasn't convinced previously) that all recent changes in land surface temperatures and sea surface temperatures and atmospheric temperatures and deep sea temperatures and sea ice extent and sea ice volume and sea ice density and moisture content in the air and cloud coverage and rainfall and measures of extreme weather were all directly tied to internal natural variability, and that I can now see that as the result of a statistical modeling of the trends as associated with natural phenomena.

This episode addressed Dr. Francis» hypothesis that climate change might causing a «drunken Arctic» and slowed down jet stream; a phenomenon which might result in the kind of extreme winter weather we've been having this year.

The methodological approach was based on generic risk management framework that follows a standardised process from identification of hazardous phenomena (extreme weather), followed by impact assessment and closed by mitigation and risk control measures.

It specifically says that extreme weather is not expected soon — mid century for some phenomena, end of century for others, never for some.

The deadly Russian heat wave of 2010 was due to a natural atmospheric phenomenon often associated with weather extremes, according to a new NOAA study.

Most key vulnerabilities are related to (a) climate phenomena that exceed thresholds for adaptation, i.e., extreme weather events and / or abrupt climate change, often related to the magnitude and rate of climate change (see Box 7.4), and (b) limited access to resources (financial, technical, human, institutional) to cope, rooted in issues of development context.