Sentences with phrase «potential coastal flooding»
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.
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Other hands - on elements of Extreme Ice include a 7 - foot wall of ice and interactive maps that show the potential impact of coastal flooding.
«This has the potential to be an historic storm, with widespread wind damage and power outages, inland and coastal flooding, and massive beach erosion,» warned the National Weather Service office in Mount Holly, N.J., yesterday.
That simple fact shows not only the scale and power of a tropical cyclone, but the difficulty of modeling and forecasting its potential for coastal flooding on the fine scale needed to most effectively prepare a response.
The list of potential consequences is familiar: coastal flooding, searing droughts, wars over shrinking water supplies, accelerated extinction of species.
A Global Climate Model (GCM) can provide reliable prediction information on scales of around 1000 by 1000 km covering what could be a vastly differing landscape (from very mountainous to flat coastal plains for example) with greatly varying potential for floods, droughts or other extreme events.
Global climate models (ESMs or GCMs) can provide climate information on scales of around 1000 by 1000 km (with grid resolution of 100's of km) covering what could be a vastly differing landscape (from very mountainous to flat coastal plains for example) with greatly varying potential for floods, droughts or other extreme events.
«Regarding the impacts that are already locked in, I think the most important finding is the potential impact of increases in both coastal and river flooding, especially in south and east Asia,» Betts told Mongabay.
Furthermore, ocean and atmospheric scientists are interested in how storm - driven waves and surges combine with tides to affect the potential for coastal flooding and the rate of coastal erosion.