Sentences with phrase «populated coastal»

Populated coastal markets, such as New York, Boston, Washington, D.C. and San Francisco, viewed as prime targets, have ramped up accordingly.

In fact, climate change alone could affect migration considerably through the consequences of warming and drying, such as reduced agricultural potential, increased desertification and water scarcity, and other weakened ecosystem services, as well as through sea level rise damaging and permanently inundating highly productive and densely populated coastal lowlands and cities [165,166,167,168].

Precipitation so far this season has been somewhat below average across the more populated coastal parts of the state, although very early Sierra Nevada snowpack numbers are actually looking pretty good at the moment.

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.

With such a rise, flooding and coastal erosion would be especially severe in heavily populated coastal areas of the tropics and warm temperate regions.

Heavily populated coastal areas will be at greatest risk due to increased flooding.

This could raise average global sea level by up to 15 feet, inundating highly populated coastal areas around the world.

(C) mitigate the destructive impact of ocean - related climate change effects, including effects on bays, estuaries, populated barrier islands and other ocean - related features, through a variety of means and measures, including the construction of jetties, levies, and other coastal structures in densely populated coastal areas impacted by climate change.

The icing on the cake is that U.S. (because of its heavily populated coastal cities) and quite a few European countries would be in a very tough position, and those are perceived as historical global opponents, especially the U.S.

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.

Indeed, even if carbon emissions ended today, there'd still be substantial detrimental impacts — in the form of massive submersion of highly populated coastal regions due to continuing sea - level rise, and famine - inducing droughts in interior regions due to shifting weather patterns.

The fastest subsidence occurs in highly populated coastal areas particularly vulnerable to flooding.

A continuation of these high rates of subsidence is likely to put much of the densely populated coastal areas below relative sea level within a few decades.

As warming oceans and melting glacial ice raise water levels, flooding from tropical storms has an increasingly devastating impact on highly populated coastal areas.

These are increasingly impactful, intersecting phenomena for densely populated coastal areas that are being developed at the same time that melting polar ice is causing sea levels to rise.

Group 5 — composed of the densely populated coastal states of California, Florida, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island — had high unemployment relative to the rest of the rest of the US in 1976, 1992 and 2012, and low unemployment in 1986.

(C) mitigate the destructive impact of ocean - related climate change effects, including effects on bays, estuaries, populated barrier islands and other ocean - related features, through a variety of means and measures, including the construction of jetties, levies, and other coastal structures in densely populated coastal areas impacted by climate change.

The study is the first attempt to model the destination of millions of potentially displaced migrants from heavily populated coastal communities.

Bergmann believes it may be fed by the densely populated coastal regions of Northern Europe.

Israel withdrew its army and 8,000 settlers from Gaza Strip; the power vacuum was soon filled by Hamas, and this densely populated coastal strip became a launching pad for thousands of rockets against Israeli civilian areas, provoking two mini-wars.

Southern was a teacher's college sunk hours south of the Georgia gnat line (Mike Leach explains Georgia gnats here) in the sparsely populated coastal pines.

Not exact matches

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.

Similar to the effects posited for human coastal exploitation, our results suggest that tool - assisted shellfish consumption by a densely populated non-human primate species might lead to unsustainable foraging.

It also is densely populated with 40 percent of the labor force engaged in agriculture and more than 60 percent living in coastal areas — factors that contribute to Indonesia's climate vulnerability.

As a densely populated, highly urbanized coastal state, New Jersey is especially vulnerable to the impacts of a changing climate.

Over a million species, most not yet described [119], are estimated to populate coral reef ecosystems generating crucial ecosystem services for at least 500 million people in tropical coastal areas.

That order of sea level rise would result in the loss of hundreds of historical coastal cities worldwide with incalculable economic consequences, create hundreds of millions of global warming refugees from highly - populated low - lying areas, and thus likely cause major international conflicts.

The chic rocker chicks that populate L.A.'s expansive «hoods are pros at picking the perfect backstage - ready coat when the coastal town's night temperatures begin to dip.

The cozy coastal community is populated with laid back townsfolk who enjoy visiting and eating at the always - busy fish shack.

Whether your business is located in a densely populated metropolis like Los Angeles, a coastal tourist city like San Diego, or the «Capital of Silicon Valley» San Jose, Mobile Modular can deliver modular buildings of your choice to your location.

It's great fun winding around the coastal roads, or heading inland to explore the rugged hills, populated with old castles, churches, dovecoats, windmills and some of the prettiest villages in Greece.

The remaining plains and coastal lowlands are very densely populated.

I've wanted to take all my life, though I think a coastal drive to Cairns would be sparsely populated but even more fun because there'd be plenty of deserted beaches.

The Lodge at Prince's Grant is situated on a secure estate, with large areas of indigenous coastal forest, populated with various species of antelope and vervet monkeys.

Khakhar encloses the landscape within a red border populated with scenes of coastal life.

It appears that the many mouths of the Irrawaddy would have allowed tidal wave intrusion into populated areas even if coastal mangroves had not been disturbed.

Similar negative effects occur with worsening air pollution — higher levels of ground - level ozone smog and other pollutants that increase with warmer temperatures have been directly linked with increased rates of respiratory and cardiovascular disease — food production and safety — warmer temperatures and varying rainfall patterns mess up staple crop yields and aid the migration and breeding of pests that can devastate crops — flooding — as rising sea levels make coastal areas and densely - populated river deltas more susceptible to storm surges and flooding that result from severe weather — and wildfires, which can be ancillary to increased heat waves and are also responsible for poor air quality (not to mention burning people's homes and crops).

Florida is another warm - weather coastal state that's already more densely populated than California, yet it's adding more homes on a per capita basis than California despite having a significantly less vibrant economy.

«We conclude that, if projections for an increasing frequency of extreme El Niño and La Niña events over the twenty - first century are confirmed, then populated regions on opposite sides of the Pacific Ocean basin could be alternately exposed to extreme coastal erosion and flooding, independent of sea - level rise,» the authors write.

Several degrees of warming is not trivial, it would result in sea level rises large enough to wipe out many coastal areas which are currently heavily populated - parts of Florida, Bangladesh, India, Bangkok, etc, etc, quite apart from other changes possibly precipitated by the loss of the ice caps.

This year's powerful El Niño weather system brought Northern California about 130 percent of normal precipitation, but only about 60 percent of normal in the heavily populated Southern California coastal plain.

In Valparaiso, Chile, 100 houses were destroyed by fires racing through a coastal setting that has a climate and topography similar to those of the Los Angeles Basin, where the fire season culminated this month with flames overpowering civilization right on the edge of one of the biggest, wealthiest, and most populated urban areas in the world.

Sea - level rise will increase coastal erosion, increasing the vulnerability of property, tourism, and livelihoods in the heavily populated Puget Sound area.

Most countries in South, South East and East Asia are particularly vulnerable to sea level rise due to rapid economic growth and coastward migration of people into urban coastal areas together with high rates of anthropogenic subsidence (for example due to water extraction) in deltas where many of the densely populated areas are located.

That order of sea level rise would result in the loss of hundreds of historical coastal cities worldwide with incalculable economic consequences, create hundreds of millions of global warming refugees from highly - populated low - lying areas, and thus likely cause major international conflicts.

This would inundate heavily populated, low - lying coastal areas worldwide — more than 1 out of every 100 people on the planet live less than 1 meter above sea level.

Over a million species, most not yet described [119], are estimated to populate coral reef ecosystems generating crucial ecosystem services for at least 500 million people in tropical coastal areas.

By investing in OSW projects, coastal states can potentially circumvent a perennial dilemma: how to cost - effectively construct new onshore electricity transmission infrastructure to serve growing demand in densely populated urban areas and sprawling suburbs.

A similar problem persists today and to compensate for the sparsity of weather stations in many inland regions, often with totally empty grid cells between them, the ACORN database applies a weighted average which proportionally multiplies their occurrence, at the same time dividing the occurrence of temperatures among more densely located stations in populated regions mostly on the coastal fringe.

The new pipeline would triple the amount of diluted bitumen transported through a seismically active area of the Southwest coast of British Columbia, double the oil storage tank capacity on Burnaby Mountain above heavily populated areas and dramatically increase the number of Aframax tankers required to ship the oil from Kinder Morgan's marine terminal through Burrard Inlet and coastal waters.