Sentences with phrase «of heatwaves such»

Anthropogenic warming may therefore already have increased the risk of heatwaves such as the one experienced in 2003 (Stott et al., 2004).

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What Welbergen witnessed could be a harbinger of an increasingly dangerous world in which rare weather events such as heatwaves, deluges, droughts and storms become much more common.

Climate variability is of concern given that extreme events, such as prolonged drought or heatwaves, can disproportionately impact biology, reduce resilience and leave a lasting impact.

Dr Kennedy says previous studies have shown that if Orbicella annularis contains just a small amount of Symbiodinium D it can sometimes respond better to stress events — such as heatwaves — and is more likely to avoid coral bleaching.

Our ensemble fire weather season length metric captured important wildfire events throughout Eurasia such as the Indonesian fires of 1997 — 98 where peat fires, following an El Niño - induced drought, released carbon equivalent to 13 — 40 % of the global fossil fuel emissions from only 1.4 % of the global vegetated land area (Fig. 4, 1997 — 1998) 46 and the heatwave over Western Russia in 2010 (Fig. 4, 2010) that led to its worst fire season in recorded history and triggered extreme air pollution in Moscow51.

An example is the deadly Russian heatwave of 2010, which was the result of such a «stuck» high - pressure system that kept a large mass of hot, dry air parked over the region for weeks.

That's such a fun printed tank, nice with the shorts and perfect for summer:) It is winter here in Australia, we had summer continue right into autumn with the heatwaves so the winter weather is a bit of a shock to the system.

Producer on a variety of game projects and with companies such as Origin - EA, THQ, Heatwave, and CIG.

One such is «Heatwave»; another is «Mist» (1961), a frayed white disc within a silvery nimbus that floats over a marbled, steely ground above an explosion of black paint.

Basic idea: if GW has doubled the chance of such a heatwave, you could attribute half the casualties to GW in a statistical sense.

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.

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Events such as the 2003 heatwave, the 2010 heatwave / wildfire event, and the 2012 drought — to name just a few of the most well - known — have cost on the order of 100,000 premature deaths and $ 100 billion in economic losses.

It is vitally important such processes are accurately represented in ESMs; for example to provide more reliable estimates of future drought and heatwave risk, which impact greatly on society and particularly affect the sustainability goals of many developing countries.

One of the key effects of climate change is that extreme weather events such as floods, droughts, heatwaves, and rainfall variations become more frequent and more severe.

«The heatwaves that we've experienced, particularly in some of the more southern climates such as Melbourne... we have already seen deaths occurring in our public hospitals from people, particularly those who are vulnerable in our community,» Mr Owler said.

How well does the «smart» city respond to the devastating scale and impact of urban heat threats such as bushfires and heatwaves?

From this mass of information they found 783 lethal heatwaves in 164 cities across 36 countries, with most cases recorded in developed countries at mid-latitudes since 1980: in cities such as New York, Washington, Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto, London, Beijing, Tokyo, Sydney and São Paulo.

This issue that deserves a lot of attention in the literature due to the possible existence of (positive) feedbacks that may affect occurrence or intensity of hydrological extremes such as heatwaves.

I enjoyed the calm statements in the «Catalyst» NARRATION such as — «In fact, it was part of the biggest heatwave to hit Australia's waters ever.

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Natural disasters such as floods and heatwaves occur almost daily across the world, double the frequency of 20 years ago, says a United Nations report, Human Cost of Weather Related Disasters.

Based on temperature records from 1864 to 2002, the odds of such a heatwave occurring are about 1 in 10 million.4 An event like the 2003 heatwave becomes much more likely after factoring in the observed warming of 2 °F over Europe and increased weather variability.5 In addition, comparing computer models of climate with and without human contribution shows that human influence has roughly quadrupled the odds of a European summer as hot as or hotter than the summer of 2003.6

When you roll the dice, the chances of getting extremes such as droughts, heatwaves and floods increase.

As natural catastrophes, such as floods, heatwaves or wildfires, are expected to become more frequent and intense in the future, mitigating their impacts through working partnerships and the dissemination of risk information is vital.

For example, such studies have shown that rising temperatures doubled the risk of the torrential rains behind the Louisiana floods last August and that climate change was responsible for 70 % of heat - related deaths in Paris during the 2003 heatwave.

Taking very small events out of the equation, 750 relevant loss events [in 2016] such as earthquakes, storms, floods, droughts and heatwaves were recorded in the Munich Re NatCatSERVICE database.

Published in Nature Climate Change, the paper surveys recent studies of climate change and extreme weather and finds «strong evidence» of a link between a warming world and the frequency and intensity of droughts, floods, and heatwaves — such as the one that turned winter into summer in the U.S.

According to research published last week by Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University (Geophysical Research Letters, vol 39, L06801), the rapid warming in the Arctic is affecting atmospheric circulation further south, making weather patterns more persistent — more blocking, in other words — which makes some kinds of extreme weather, such as heatwaves, more likely.

This extremely hot, near 90 degree water, has formed the central pulse of the current heatwave even as it has pumped extraordinarily humid air for such hot conditions over adjacent land areas.»

Or is it the case that there have already been such events — e.g. the 2003 European heatwave that reportedly killed tens of thousands of people, or hurricane Katrina — but that since it can always be said that «no individual extreme event can be directly attributed to global warming», that no event, no matter how extreme, will ever cause the sort of «tipping point» in public consciousness that the 9/11 attacks did?

Aerial turbulence such as we've never seen, ice storms and heatwaves bringing severe drought whirled around the room as the potential excesses of global warming were exposed.

With such findings, Hansen told the Associated Press that the current heatwave and drought across wide - swathes of the U.S. is also likely linked to climate change.

The new report in the American Meteorological Society is first of what is intended to be an annual offering that will attempt to tease out the connections between climate change and individual extreme weather events, such as heatwaves, droughts and floods.

Extreme weather events such as those which have recently devastated parts of Australia — heatwaves, floods and fires - are predicted to become more frequent and severe.

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.