Sentences with phrase «storm frequency due»

When we consider this effect in combination with the likely increase in storm frequency due to El Niño, it's clear the potential exists for a very active winter overall.

Not exact matches

«We conclude that coastal communities are facing a looming crisis due to climate change related sea - level rise, one that will manifest itself as increased frequency of Sandy - like inundation disasters in the coming decades along the mid-Atlantic and elsewhere, from storms with less intensity and lower storm surge than Sandy,» Sweet said.

Floods due to sea - level rise, storm surges and heavy rain will increase in frequency.

This is due to the large natural variability in the frequency and intensity of tropical storms (e.g., due to the El Niño Southern Oscillation), which complicate the detection of long - term trends and their attribution to increasing greenhouse gases.

Higher average sea levels due to climate change will lead to higher storm surges and elevated flooding risks in coastal communities world - wide, even if the intensity or frequency of storms remains unchanged.

• increases in malnutrition and consequent disorders, with implications for child growth and development; • increased deaths, disease and injury due to heat waves, floods, storms, fires and droughts; • the increased burden of diarrheal disease; • the increased frequency of cardio - respiratory diseases due to higher concentrations of ground - level ozone related to climate change; and, • the altered spatial distribution of some infectious disease vectors.

BTW, the prediction is for storm intensity to increase due to higher sea surface temperatures (a rather obvious conclusion), frequency is debated.

Eventually, if not right now, we would expect to see increase in storm intensity and perhaps frequency in a globally warming world, all things being equal... which they are not, since even weathermen can't well predict next week's weather due to some butterfly flapping it's wings in Japan gumming up the wind system.

Storm frequency, strength, and other weather related activity is also due to change.

Due to the frequency of failed forecasts, the public often dismisses media hype about the dangers of an approaching storm, preferring to stay and take their chances rather than needlessly evacuate.

India could witness an increase in the severity and frequency of dust storms and thunderstorms due to rising global temperatures, experts say.

Reconstructed centennial variability of Late Holocene storminess from Cors Fochno, Wales, UK Future anthropogenic climate forcing is forecast to increase storm intensity and frequency over Northern Europe, due to a northward shift of the storm tracks, and a positive North Atlantic Oscillation.

One of the difficulties studying changes in the frequency and intensity of cyclones is that the record of past storms is inhomogeneous, due to changes in observational capabilities and how storms have been measured and recorded.

Some possible effects of global warming are the inundation of low - lying islands due to rising sea levels, increased frequency of severe storms and the retreat of glaciers and icecaps.

Damage in Europe and South America will be less than $ 1 billion due to the low frequency of storms hitting these areas.

The report shows that the US and China will be hardest hit, incurring $ 25 billion and $ 11 billion additional damages respectively, due to the concentration of development along the coasts and the frequency of damaging storms hitting these areas.

No analysis has been done on the frequency of intense typhoons (having winds of at least 50 m / s) due to an overestimation of the intensity of such storms in the 1950s and 1960s (Black, 1993).