Sentences with phrase «triggered by rainfall»

«A lot of people assume that all landslides occur in the same areas, but those triggered by rainfall or human behavior have a different triggering mechanism than landslides caused by earthquakes so we need dedicated studies.»

They can be triggered by rainfall, erosion or other natural disturbances, such as earthquakes and volcanoes.

BRAZIL / / / LANDSLIDES In areas surrounding Rio de Janeiro, landslides triggered by rainfall killed 850 in January.

Not exact matches

The drones can't come too soon for scientists who study the El Niño — Southern Oscillation, a set of shifting global temperature and rainfall patterns triggered by warm surface waters that slosh back and forth across the equatorial Pacific every few years.

Consequently, there are grave concerns that the rainfall patterns altered by climate change could trigger a forest decline on a global scale.

One of the proofs was that LA was hit with the worst drought in at least 1,200 years in 2014, triggered by high temperatures and reduced rainfall linked to the change of climate and weather patterns.

The failure to flush the cooled - down water from the ocean surface, induced by global warming's rainfall and meltwater, isn't even the 20 percent possibility at the moment; it's the best - understood candidate for what can trigger global abrupt cooling.

The events were triggered by a period of intense rainfall and a rapid rise in temperatures, which rose by 27 ˚C in a little over two days.