Sentences with phrase «storm activity from»

The North American east and west coastal regions are both strongly influenced by ETCs and, subsequently, land - based, coastal, and maritime economic sectors in Canada and the USA all experience strong adverse impacts from extratropical storm activity from time to time.

That excess ocean warmth bleeds into the atmosphere, which tends to shift storm activity from west to east in the same region.

Not exact matches

We have successfully supported critical business activities during disruptions of normal business processes from both natural and man - made disasters, including hurricanes, fires, Super Storm Sandy to September 11th and other events.

Market characteristics have melded to create a perfect storm where prospective homeowners are unable to find adequate affordable property due to an extreme lack of supply, and have thus refrained from putting their own homes on the market, causing sales activity to slow further and price rises to lower.

During these two years, your little one will go from taking a few tentative steps to running, jumping, and moving with increased coordination; from using a handful of words to having a broad vocabulary (and talking up a storm); and from being able to focus for three minutes or less to having an increased attention span that opens the door to all kinds of new toddler activities.

The unexpected prediction from the deputy prime minister comes amid a storm of activity from Conservative eurosceptics, as the long campaigning season ahead of May's European elections begins in earnest.

The solar storms alone could zap the planet with radiation bursts thousands of times more intense than the normal activity from our Sun.

Rising seas, increased damage from storm surge and more frequent bouts of extreme heat will have «specific, measurable impacts on our nation's current assets and ongoing economic activity,» it says.

«More broadly, the results suggest that from pre-industrial to the present day, human activity possibly may have changed storms in these regions in powerful ways.»

Ice cores from Mount Hunter in Alaska's Denali National Park and Mount Logan in Canada were used in an analysis of over 1,000 years of history of the Aleutian Low pressure system that drives storm activity in the North Pacific.

The intensification of winter storm activity in Alaska and Northwestern Canada started close to 300 years ago and is unprecedented in magnitude and duration over the past millennium, according to a new study from Dartmouth College.

More than 85 percent of those happened during a time when there were no storms or lightning, meaning that most of the fires originated from human activities.

The seven - day rainfall total from Harvey was as much as 40 percent higher than rainfall from a similar storm would have been decades ago, before human activity caused atmospheric carbon dioxide levels to spike, according to a study published yesterday in Geophysical Research Letters.

Colin Price and his colleagues at Tel Aviv University studied data from 26 observation stations worldwide, comparing lightning activity to tropical storm formation during the 2005 and 2006 hurricane seasons.

The GLM will allow UAH scientists to view storms from space in a geostationary orbit ¬ - a fixed position relative to Earth — providing unprecedented ability to track lightning activity.

The scientists are now trying to determine whether Titan's storm resulted from atmospheric conditions or from surface activity, such as methane - spewing geysers or volcanoes.

The team reconstructed 220 years of hurricane activity in the area around southern Georgia, representing storms that struck anywhere from the adjacent gulf to South Carolina.

They are a common measure of solar activity — the higher the number of sunspots, the higher the probability of a major storm that could wreak havoc on Earth (see Space storm alert: 90 seconds from catastrophe).

In summer, however, the analysis of observational data coming from weather stations and satellites reveals a clear decrease in the average storm activity.

The signature effects of human - induced climate change — rising seas, increased damage from storm surge, more frequent bouts of extreme heat — all have specific, measurable impacts on our nation's current assets and ongoing economic activity.

«With hurricane Sandy and [Typhoon] Haiyan, scientists found little contribution [from human activity] to the storm itself, but the main role of climate change was through the higher sea levels.»

Make it Rain activity (adapted from Rain storm activity): Tell the children that they are going to make a pretend rain storm by making noises with their body while not saying anything.

One such sequence involves a daring gambit to instantly lower the pressure within a shopping mall, creating a vacuum from a giant skylight, and another is the climactic chase, which features a trio of semi-trucks, some leaping and hanging on to the vehicles, and a wall of apocalyptic storm activity in pursuit.

Start school with new booktalks and activities from ten nonfiction authors: April Pulley Sayre (Rah, Rah, Radishes), Kelly Milner Halls (In Search of Sasquatch), Deborah Heiligman (Charles and Emma), Loree Griffin Burns (The Hive Detectives), Carla Killough McClafferty (The Many Faces of George Washington), Christine Taylor - Butler (Magnets), Shirley Duke (You Can't Wear These Genes), Darcy Pattison (Prairie Storms), Carla Mooney (Explorers of the New World) and Anastasia Suen (Read and Write Sports).

Participants who braved the storm were treated to exciting race - inspired activities that ranged from pet - agility challenges, hamster races, canine games and a customised photo booth that allowed owners to pose for a shot with their furkids.

This incredible area is the starting point for a lineup of exhilarating activities, from beachcombing, hiking, surfing and kayaking to fishing, diving, storm watching and wildlife viewing, especially when the grey whales are migrating through the region.

Core samples from the floor of the Blue Hole will be used to test a hypothesis set forth by Eugene Schinn of the U.S. Geological Survey in St. Petersburg, Florida, which seeks to associate Saharan desert dust storm activity with the development of algae blooms and other pathogens.

Our area boasts year - round activities from horseback riding to beachcombing, from surfing to wine tasting, and from storm watching to sunbathing.

Storms River village provides a number of adventure activities like the Canopy tours, bungi jumping from the Bloukrans River Bridge, which claims to the be the world's highest at 216 metres, biking trails, fishing excursions and Black Water Tubing and kloofing, but the star of the show is nature herself and the meeting place of forest, precipitous cliff and stormy seas.

Johnson said heavy storm activity this winter with «really big surf» has apparently been sweeping elephant seal pups off the rocks in the rookeries and away from their mothers.

Slowing such overturning by reducing the horizontal differential heating could tend to allow heat to build up at lower levels until the lapse rate is more favorable to localized vertical overturning (LVO)(The two forms of overturning are not always completely distinct or separate; for example, the Hadley cell, Walker, and monsoon circulations, as well as extratropical storm track activity (developing from baroclinic instability (Rossby wave phenomena)-RRB- are driven and organized in part by horizontal differential heating, but in the ascending portions of these circulations, cumulus - type convection can occur).

There are some positive momentum feedbacks that can reinforce a momentum redistribution, such as associated with storm track activity, or also (I think this is a good example), with feedback from SST rearrangment, ENSO.

While many studies of the effects of global warming on hurricanes predict an increase in various metrics of Atlantic basin - wide activity, it is less clear that this signal will emerge from background noise in measures of hurricane damage, which depend largely on rare, high - intensity landfalling events and are thus highly volatile compared to basin - wide storm metrics.

The implication is that if climate change, driven by increasing greenhouse gases from human activity, increases the heat content of the ocean, storms passing over it will be able to draw ever more moisture that they can unload as rain.

In a sediment core from the Mar Menor (SE Spain), we discovered eight coarse - grained layers which document marine incursions during periods of intense storm activity or tsunami events.

The atmospheric and ocean environment has changed from human activities in ways that affect storms and extreme climate events.

In the Western Mediterranean, where human societies colonized and occupied the coastal areas since the Ancient times, the variability of storm activity for the past three millennia was investigated with a multi-proxy sedimentological and geochemical study from a lagoonal sequence.

The team then compared the oxygen isotope ratio for each year's wet season from 1990 to 2010 with a cyclone activity index of the average accumulated energy expended, based on factors such as number of cyclones, cyclone strength, size and time on storm track.

«The authors write that «the Mediterranean region is one of the world's most vulnerable areas with respect to global warming,»... they thus consider it to be extremely important to determine what impact further temperature increases might have on the storminess of the region... produced a high - resolution record of paleostorm events along the French Mediterranean coast over the past 7000 years... from the sediment bed of Pierre Blanche Lagoon [near Montpellier, France]... nine French scientists, as they describe it, «recorded seven periods of increased storm activity at 6300 - 6100, 5650 - 5400, 4400 - 4050, 3650 - 3200, 2800 - 2600, 1950 - 1400, and 400 - 50 cal yr BP,» the latter of which intervals they associate with the Little Ice Age.

The National Hydrological Monitoring Programme study, carried out by scientists from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) and the British Hydrological Society, is published today on the anniversary of Storm Desmond − the most destructive of several named storms during three months of «remarkably persistent and exceptionally mild cyclonic» activity.

Arctic storm trends, from Zhang et al (2004), «Climatology and Interannual Variability of Arctic Cyclone Activity: 1948 — 2002»

These multi-decadal fluctuations in hurricane activity result nearly entirely from differences in the number of hurricanes and major hurricanes forming from tropical storms first named in the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean Sea.

Because climate change is likely to cause death to many, if not millions of people, through heat stroke, vector borne disease, and flooding, annihilate many island nations by rising seas, cause billions of dollars in property damage in intense storms, and destroy the ability of hundreds of millions to feed themselves in hotter drier climates, the duty to refrain from activities which could cause global warming is extraordinarily strong even in the face of scientific uncertainty about consequences.

Our nation's coasts and adjacent communities are already experiencing enormous impacts from a changing climate through sea level rise, increased storm activity, and an acidifying ocean.

Since this index represents a continuous spectrum of both system duration and intensity, it does not suffer as much from the discontinuities inherent in more widely used measures of activity such as the number of tropical storms, hurricanes or major hurricanes.

Here the silt deposition from these two mighty rivers causing the submergence of Mangroves and hutments; (4) Also, destruction of Coastline for commercial activities and destruction of Mangroves allowed sea water entering into nearby villages and thus people are attributing it to sea level rise; (5) In several parts, sea sand is lifted for other uses and thus causing the sea water entering in to nearby areas; and (6) Boston area was filled [artificially built] and with the storm surges it looks something happened.

Residents of Caribbean islands and the coastal United States — including those still recovering from last year's storms — may need to brace themselves for another intense hurricane season, as forecasts predict «above average» Atlantic storm activity in 2018.

These datasets include: NOAA Optimum Interpolation 1/4 Degree Daily Sea Surface Temperature (OISST) Analysis, Version 2 AVHRR Pathfinder Version 5.2 Level 3 Collated (L3C) Global 4 km Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Climate Data Record (CDR) for 1981 - 2010 NOAA Climate Data Record (CDR) of Gridded Satellite Data from ISCCP B1 (GridSat - B1) 11 micron Brightness Temperature, Version 2 NCDC Storm Events Database Coastal Economic Trends for Coastal Geographies Demographic Trends (1970 - 2010) for Coastal Geographies FEMA HAZUS Critical Facilities for Coastal Geographies Time - Series Data for Self - Employed Economic Activity Dependent on the Ocean and Great Lakes Economy for Counties, States, and the Nation between 2005 and 2012 Time - Series Data on the Ocean and Great Lakes Economy for Counties, States, and the Nation between 2005 and 2012 (Sector and Industry Level) Time - Series Data on the Ocean and Great Lakes Economy for Counties, States, and the Nation between 2005 and 2012 (Sector Level)... Continued

Coastal Zones: The likely costs for protecting coastal zones from storm activity and sea level rise are probably three times greater than the UN estimate of $ 11 billion.

Indices for hurricane activity based on storm surge data from tide gauges further indicate an increase in intensity.