Sentences with phrase «study of heatwaves»

A second study of heatwaves over recent decades in India has established a link between extremes of heat, climate change and mass death.

Not exact matches

An underwater heatwave that bleached massive sections of the Great Barrier Reef in 2016 was so severe it immediately «cooked» some corals in the northern region, scientists say following the results of a major long - term study.

Peter Stott of the UK Met Office, who also worked on the heatwave study, and Allen are part of a growing cadre of climate scientists who want that to change.

A study published yesterday in Nature Communications suggests that there's been a 54 percent increase in the number of annual «marine heatwave days» since the 1920s — that is, the total number of days each year that a marine heat wave is occurring somewhere around the world.

There have been exceptions: studies have found that the European heatwave in 2003 was twice as likely because of climate change, and that the UK floods in 2000 were also made more likely.

Other studies suggest the probability of deadly heatwaves on this scale will become 5 — 10 times more likely in coming years.

Dr Kennedy says previous studies have shown that if Orbicella annularis contains just a small amount of Symbiodinium D it can sometimes respond better to stress events — such as heatwaves — and is more likely to avoid coral bleaching.

A study published by the Climate Council of Australia in 2014 found that heatwaves in Australia are becoming hotter, longer and more frequent.

In 2015, Friederike Otto at the University of Oxford studied a heatwave that struck Argentina in 2013.

Atmospheric heatwaves can have significant impacts on human health31 and attribution studies have shown that these events, and atmospheric heatwaves in general, have become much more likely as a result of anthropogenic warming32.

The researchers studied all 571 European cities to assess the likely impact of flooding, drought and heatwaves in the latter half of the century, under a climate model where average temperatures rise between 2.6 C and 4.8 C - the current widely accepted business - as - usual trajectory.

From the North of England, studied photography at the RCA, became an artist during a heatwave and a flash of light.

A new study in an actual scientific journal showing future impacts of droughts, heatwaves and floods to 571 European cities.

And a new study by Duchez et al. (2016) connects the «cold blob» in the summer of 2015 to the heatwave across Europe that year, because the cold subpolar Atlantic favors a certain air pressure distribution.

The paper considers the necessary components of a prospective event attribution system, reviews some specific case studies made to date (Autumn 2000 UK floods, summer 2003 European heatwave, annual 2008 cool US temperatures, July 2010 Western Russia heatwave) and discusses the challenges involved in developing systems to provide regularly updated and reliable attribution assessments of unusual or extreme weather and climate - related events.

Researchers, including Australian climate scientist Dr Sarah Perkins - Kirkpatrick, are trying to standardise the definitions of «heatwaves» and «hot days» and create a framework that allows for more in - depth studies of these events.

A review paper published in 2016 assessed evidence from multiple studies and found that heatwaves are becoming more intense and more frequent for the majority of Australia.

The study finds that Europe will be a continent of two halves, with the southern and south - eastern regions hit hardest, because of increasing droughts and heatwaves.

As an earlier World Bank - commissioned study noted, food stocks plummet, average summer temperatures reach extreme heatwave levels across vast swaths of the world, and sea - level rise threatens to displace hundreds of millions of people.

For example, such studies have shown that rising temperatures doubled the risk of the torrential rains behind the Louisiana floods last August and that climate change was responsible for 70 % of heat - related deaths in Paris during the 2003 heatwave.

A recent study by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction reported that of the 164,000 who perished when the thermometer dropped or climbed to catastrophic levels, in the last 20 years, 148,000 died during heatwaves, and 90 % of these deaths were in Europe.

The study flies in the face of previous research by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that concluded the heatwave was simply due to natural variation and not a warming world.

Published in Nature Climate Change, the paper surveys recent studies of climate change and extreme weather and finds «strong evidence» of a link between a warming world and the frequency and intensity of droughts, floods, and heatwaves — such as the one that turned winter into summer in the U.S.

A landmark new study in Nature Climate Change finds the melting of the sea ice over the last 30 years at a rate of 8 % per decade is directly linked to extreme summer weather in the US and elsewhere in the form of droughts and heatwaves.

A new study coming out the City College of New York shows that continued warming temperatures, combined with the well - known (and growing) urban heat island effect, means more frequent and more intense heatwaves are in store for New York.

However, confidence on a global scale is medium owing to lack of studies over Africa and South America but also in part owing to differences in trends depending on how heatwaves are defined (Perkins et al., 2012).