Sentences with phrase «severity of flood»

Depending on the amount of mining in the impacted watersheds, the quality of existing baseline data, and the number of measurements taken during and after the flood, scientists may not find a «smoking gun» directly linking the severity of this flood event with MTR mining.

The commission report divides the city into three types of area according to severity of flood damage.

«At the same time, the severity of flood impacts is not only determined by environmental factors, but also to a significant extent by human decisions: flood defense measures can counteract the increasing flood risk,» says Boettle.

The instruments measure how swiftly the water is flowing and determine the severity of the flooding in different regions affected by the hurricane.

The number and severity of floods will grow.

Not exact matches

«The entire U.S. Atlantic coastline is vulnerable to these hot spots that may amplify the severity of coastal flooding.»

Scientists already point to increased severity of hurricanes on the East Coast, major Midwest floods, and shrinking glaciers in the West as proof of global warming's onset.

As an example, a 2013 study has shown that farmers» poor land - management practices in the case of maize production in the UK has led to increased surface water runoff9 that apparently contributed to the severity of the recent flooding in the UK, as recently reported in the news10.

The study improves our understanding on future trends in river flood risk in Europe while also highlighting the need to prepare effective adaptation plans for a likely increase in the severity and frequency of floods in Europe.

The severity of the disastrous weather, and subsequent flooding, has left countless people in desperate need.

Due to the severity of the property damage caused by flooding, FEMA recommends that everyone carry flood coverage.

Anticipating that severe flooding may become more frequent due to global warming, a WHO report said that independent studies in cyclone - affected Orissa and a flooded town in England has shown that post-traumatic stress disorder syndromes of different severity in affected people even after a year.»

After reading one of my recent pieces examining Pakistani flooding and Russian heat in the context of climate change, Steven Sherwood, a climate scientist at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, offered a variant on this idea, noting that — for heat particularly — the severity of extreme events will change along with the odds:

Of course, the occurrence or severity of a particular drought or flood in a particular location depends on a lot of things, including natural climate patterns like El NinOf course, the occurrence or severity of a particular drought or flood in a particular location depends on a lot of things, including natural climate patterns like El Ninof a particular drought or flood in a particular location depends on a lot of things, including natural climate patterns like El Ninof things, including natural climate patterns like El Nino.

And since we currently seem incapable of predicting when droughts / floods will happen, or of what severity they will be when they do (in advance, that is), of what use are such «predictions»?

A report in The Sunday Times on 24 January claimed that the United Nations climate science panel (IPCC) wrongly linked global warming to an increase in the number and severity of natural disasters such as hurricanes and floods.

Scientists are also confident that heating of the deep oceans and melting of land ice will lead to continued sea level rise, which will heighten the risk of coastal flooding and the severity of coastal hazards during stormy episodes.

Those two companies manufactured fossil fuels that have contributed to global warming and thereby increased the number and severity of wildfires, droughts, and flash flooding, while also worsening air quality, harming forest health, and increasing mortality from heat waves.

Ongoing coastal development and population growth are projected to exacerbate the risks resulting from sea - level rise and increases in the severity and frequency of storms and coastal flooding by 2050.

A storm surge, storm flood or storm tide is a coastal flood or tsunami - like phenomenon of rising water commonly associated with low pressure weather systems (such as tropical cyclones and strong extratropical cyclones), the severity of which is affected by the shallowness and orientation of the water body relative to storm path, as well as the timing of tides.

Billions of dollars spent for flood control, plus the effects of land degradation, actually increased the severity and cost of flooding on the Columbia, Rhine, and Mississippi rivers.

Co-author and UCS senior analyst Erika Spanger - Siegfried also said the report shows how many communities in the East Coast will witness intense changes in the severity and number of tidal floods yearly, unless steps are undertaken to manage the problem.

Health effects from increased frequency and severity of heat waves, exposure of low - lying coastal areas to severe storms and sea level rise, increased frequency and severity of drought, river flooding, wildfires, and so forth — a wide range of impacts that can have a range of implications for human health and for disruption of our society.

By now scientists were able to directly attribute the increasing severity of droughts and floods to anthropogenic climate change.

The result is an increase in the severity and frequency of floods, the displacement and destruction of habitat for fish and other water dependent species, and a decrease in base flows in our streams and water in our aquifers.

Scientists investigated whether the expert climate change prediction that growing CO2 emissions, and the subsequent atmospheric increase of CO2, would cause an increase in the frequency and severity of large flooding.

The law spcifically defines flood, and distinguishes it from damage caused by rainwater or stormwater, that is, rain that accumulates on the ground because of the severity of the storm.

Due to the severity of the property damage caused by flooding, FEMA recommends that everyone carry flood coverage.

-- Climate change will also mean an increase in the frequency and severity of droughts and flooding.

Droughts in the West, floods in Texas, tornadoes in the Midwest and increasing severity of storms along the East Coast and in the South are all evidence that climate change — whatever the cause — is real, and will have lasting effects on owners, inve...

Droughts in the West, floods in Texas, tornadoes in the Midwest and increasing severity of storms along the East Coast and in the South are all evidence that climate change — whatever the cause — is real, and will have l...

The various labels are used to indicate the severity of any potential flooding within specific regions across the country.

Millions upon millions of Indians live upon the largest flood plain / delta in the world, comprising about twenty - five to forty percent of India's land mass (when said twenty - five plus percent rests above the average high - water mark between yearly monsoons of varying severity).