Sentences with phrase «river in flood zones»
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Co-author Dr Friederike Otto, a senior researcher in Oxford's Environmental Change Institute and scientific coordinator of climateprediction.net, said: «For the first time ever, this study doesn't stop at rainfall and river flow but attributes the change in risk from the meteorology down to the direct impact of flooded houses in the river catchment zones.»
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The preliminary results of this study have been on our website since the time the flooding happened, but now we have looked not only at the rainfall, but also the influence of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions on the atmospheric circulation and how this propagates from rainfall, to river flow down to the direct impact of flooded houses in the river catchment zones.
Excess flood insurance is available in all parts of the country — in high - risk flood zones along the coast and close to major rivers as well as in areas of lower risk.
Since adventure seems to follow us wherever we go, we also got to experience the most frightening thunderstorm while camping next to a river in a flash flood zone.
Quick aside: this concern over drilling in a flood zone is the same reason Arkansans are concerned about an industrial hog farm being built near the Buffalo National River.
Excess flood insurance is available in all parts of the country — in high - risk flood zones along the coast and close to major rivers as well as in areas of lower risk.
Over the years, the Westfield River has flooded on several occasions, and the entire city lies in a floodplain zone.