Sentences with phrase «river floods»

Effective adaptation strategies need to be implemented to limit the impact of river flooding on population and assets.

Results suggest that the future increase in expected damage and population affected by river floods can be compensated through different configurations of adaptation measures.

However, scientists have not yet established a significant connection between increased river flooding and human - induced climate change.

These results give an overview of the risk associated with river flooding.

The robots were expected to sort the balls into the appropriate bins and then hang from a beam before a virtual river flooded and swept them away.

This lesson covers the different strategies used to manage river flooding.

If the local river floods and floods your house, oftentimes insurance will not cover.

Under the projected increase in frequency and magnitude of river floods, traditional approaches based only on rising indefinitely local flood protections are not sustainable in the long term.

In a 4 °C global warming scenario, the socio - economic impact of river floods in Europe is likely to triple before the end of the century (Alfieri et al. 2015b).

U of I researcher Ken Olson and his colleague from Iowa State University, Lois Wright Morton, have studied the seasonal Mississippi River flooding for over a decade.

Geography dependent: The building is designed for river flooding and has not been tested for coastal areas.

Over the past decade, total financial losses from river flooding in Europe were about EUR 5 billion per year on average, said Watkiss.

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-- Last month, we reported on concerns expressed by local residents about the city's plans for an East River flood barrier.

«There is a need for the Mississippi River Commission and the US Army Corps of Engineers to develop a Missouri River and upper Mississippi River plan similar to their lower Mississippi River and tributary plan to address both the upper Mississippi and Missouri river flooding and navigation issues,» Olson says.

It includes data from the team's ongoing excavations at the sites of two ancient communities in the lower Yellow River flood plain of China's Henan province.

If the 1938 storm — a storm that took down two billion board feet of trees in New England, caused major river floods in western New England, flooded Providence with 13 feet of water in a storm surge, and had a wind gust of 186 m.p.h. at Blue Hill — occurs again, why would it be climate change now but not then?

Climate change is shifting the timing of river flooding across Europe, with parts of the continent experiencing flooding several weeks earlier or later than they did 50 years ago.

When rivers flood they leave behind rich deposits that actually enrich the soil.

From reading the paragraph, I conclude that prediction of climate using climate models is similar to prediction of river flood levels using hydrologic models.

I see that Alberta Premiere Alison Redford has advised the flooded out owners of properties on the Calgary and High River flood plains of the Elbo and Bow Rivers to rebuild... somewhere else... on higher ground.

Plans to remove old tanker train cars from a rail line in the Adirondacks have been halted by Hudson River flooding.

D. Kondrashov and colleagues collated a record of Nile River flood water levels over the same period as te baseflow record.

Central and Eastern Europe could be hit particularly hard because of the larger relative impact of river flooding already in these regions due to the extensive river systems which flow through them.

Mailboxes are inundated by Brazos River flooding along Newlin Drive in Richmond on Friday.

When the Trinity River flooded in 1908, reaching 52.6 feet and a mile and a half across, only five people died.

To deal with flooding, local and national institutions have combined to erect an extensive flood protection systems, to create river flood and hurricane forecasting, and develop evacuation plans.

...» In the aftermath of the catastrophic Red River flooding, «The Heat is On» has immediate relevance for the American people and our leaders,» said Kalee Kreider, Climate Campaign Director for Greenpeace USA.

Even as river flooding continues in many areas, more heavy rain is forecast over the weekend, which could lead to additional flash floods and mudslides.

Their research found that Texas had the largest number of fatalities from flash floods and river floods over the study period.

On a more positive note, river flood losses in Europe show a near - static trend (despite their increased frequency), indicating that protection measures that have been implemented may have stemmed flood losses.

The day to day melee of provincial politics in Alberta was thrown out the window two weeks ago as rising rivers flooded communities in southern Alberta and forced the evacuation of more than 100,000 Albertans from low - lying Calgary neighbourhoods and surrounding communities.

Born in the vast mountain ranges of British Columbia, the Fraser River floods southward to its rendezvous with the Pacific.

Langhorne Creek is unique in that it sits on the rich soil of the Bremer River flood plain.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today signed legislation to provide a total of $ 45 million in relief to communities impacted by the historic Lake Ontario and St. Lawrence River flooding.

During Sandy, the East River flooded all the way to Avenue B and First Avenue, turning the FDR Drive into a riverbed and blowing the ConEd transformer on East 14th Street, plunging millions of residents living south of Midtown into darkness for days.

Climatic control of Mississippi River flood hazard amplified by river engineering.

As the 2011 Mississippi river flood moved downstream, it quickly became apparent that it threatened to inundate New Orleans.

As a consequence, heat - related deaths could reach about 200,000, the cost of river flood damages could exceed $ 10 billion and 8000 km2 of forest could burn in southern Europe.

The Mekong river floods annually, and it is known that those floods are important for fisheries, Sabo said.

Previous studies have shown that climate change is likely to increase the severity and frequency of coastal floods, but it can be tricky to concretely link river flooding to climate change, says Günter Blöschl, a hydrologist at the Vienna University of Technology who led the study.

Every year between November and April, rivers flood Baures, a savanna region in the Bolivian Amazon.

And officials are warning that the storm could cause severe river flooding that could linger after Sandy exits those areas.