Sentences with phrase «understanding extreme events»

The first is understanding extreme events and the risks associated with extreme weather and climate events — in the current climate, but also in a future climate.

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«In order to understand coastal impacts under current and future climate and socio - economic conditions, we do not only need robust projections of mean sea level rise but also a profound knowledge of present - day and future extreme sea levels, because these events drive the impacts,» Wahl said.

«Storm surges globally lead to considerable loss of life and billions of dollars of damages each year, and yet we still have a limited understanding of the likelihood and associated uncertainties of these extreme events both today and in the future,» said Thomas Wahl, an assistant engineering professor in the University of Central Florida who led the study.

The intensity, duration, and frequency of extreme temperature - and precipitation - based events are key components to understanding the climate of Chesapeake Bay.

«Testing these contrasting hypotheses was an opportunity to not only help people understand and plan for diversity changes after extreme weather events, but also to provide important data that would move the field of ecology forward.»

Modelling specific extreme events helps us understand how and why they happened, says Stephanie Herring of the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colorado.

Still a young science, attribution research seeks to strengthen understanding of the factors that contribute to extreme events.

To better understand the cores of powerful astrophysical objects, scientists are studying individual particles that can tell a firsthand tale of the extreme events that launch them outward at tremendous speed.

Understanding the multi-fractal structure of financially sound markets could, ultimately, help in identifying structural signs of impending extreme events.

«We believe this first study of rogue waves occurring over space and time during hurricanes will help improve real - time forecasting for shipping companies and other organizations that need to understand the risk of extreme events in the oceans.»

«These rare and extreme events are so rare and extreme that the only way to understand them, even if we're only interested in our backyard, is to understand them wherever they occur.»

Attribution studies are meant to help policymakers understand whether an extreme weather event is likely to repeat in the future.

What is learned about the mega-landslide could help geologists better understand these extreme types of events.

«Understanding whether the probability of those high - impact events has changed can help us to plan for future extreme events, and to value the costs and benefits of avoiding future global warming.»

Dr Li said the latest research findings give a better understanding of changes in human - perceived equivalent temperature, and indicate global warming has stronger long - term impacts on human beings under both extreme and non-extreme weather conditions, suggesting that climate change adaptation can not just focus on heat wave events, but should be extended to the whole range of effects of temperature increases.

Extreme weather events like Harvey are expected to become more likely as Earth's climate changes due to greenhouse gas emissions, and scientists don't understand how extreme weather will impact invasive pests, pollinators and other species that affect human well - being.

«People have to understand that damage is usually caused by extreme events.»

The role played by biodiversity in the ability of ecosystems to continue functioning during extreme weather events, which are increasingly frequent as a result of climate change, remains poorly understood.

To predict the effects of these extreme events, scientists need to better understand how forests work normally — and for ecologists like Stephenson, that means figuring out why trees die.

Despite the understanding gained through this study, many questions about extreme weather events remain.

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are applying atmospheric science research capabilities to improve our understanding of long - term weather trends and better predict extreme weather events like these — and it all starts with studying clouds.

You will therefore work with diverse research teams including space physicists exploiting ground - based instruments and space missions to study the ionospheres and magnetospheres of Earth and the other planets, and statisticians developing statistical methodology to understand the behaviour of extreme events in real - life environmental applications.

Climate extremes: challenges in estimating and understanding recent changes in the frequency and intensity of extreme climate and weather events [chapter].

Our scientific understanding of disturbance associated with extreme weather events limits our ability to project landslides, blow downs, ice storms, and other such events in the future.

Today we understand the impact of human activities on global mean temperature very well; however, high - impact extreme weather events are where the socio - economic impacts of a changing climate manifest itself and where our understanding is more in its infancy but nevertheless developing at pace.

The pilot of Raising Risk Awareness project will run until March 2017 and will generate a suite of tools and knowledge products, and run a series of national and regional events to help civil society, communities, practitioners, media and decision - makers better understand and prepare for the current and future risks from extreme weather events.

It's another development in our understanding of extreme weather events, in an era of human - induced climate change.

A new analysis published in the journal Environmental Research Letters establishes that seasonal forecast sea surface temperature (SSTs) can be used to perform probabilistic extreme - event attribution, thereby accelerating the time it takes climate scientists to understand and quantify the role of global warming in certain classes of extreme weather events.

The Extremes Grand Challenge is organised around four over arching themes (Document, Understand, Simulate, Attribute) with a main focus on four core events (Heavy Precipitation, Heatwave, Drought, Storm).

According to a National Research Council Report (See «Severe Space Weather Events — Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts: A Workshop Report» [2008]-RRB-, damages from the most extreme solar storms could range between $ 1 trillion - $ 2 trillion within the first year and four to 10 years for full recovery.

Organized by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), the GOTHAM Summer School (18th - 22nd September 2017) will train young scientists on a unique combination of interdisciplinary scientific topics and tools relevant for understanding teleconnections and their role in causing extreme weather events.

Noah Diffenbaugh, a senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University, said the new analysis represented a «valuable step» in attribution work, a field of climate science that's developed in the past decade in an effort to understand the role of climate change in specific extreme events.

That's one area of research that we are working on currently which has a really big impact on extreme weather events and it's this kind of phenomena that we need to understand much better.

Understanding how continuing increases in global mean temperature will exacerbate societal exposure to extreme weather events is a question of profound importance.

Now with the rainy season underway Berkeley Lab's research — which seeks to understand how the hydrology and microbiology of the surface and groundwater system respond to extreme events — has become even more critical.

The following are common characteristics of gifted children, although not all will necessarily apply to every gifted child: • Has an extensive and detailed memory, particularly in a specific area of interest • Has advanced vocabulary for his or her age; uses precocious language • Has communication skills advanced for his or her age and is able to express ideas and feelings • Asks intelligent and complex questions • Is able to identify the important characteristics of new concepts and problems • Learns information quickly • Uses logic in arriving at common sense answers • Has a broad base of knowledge; a large quantity of information • Understands abstract ideas and complex concepts • Uses analogical thinking, problem solving, or reasoning • Observes relationships and sees connections • Finds and solves difficult and unusual problems • Understands principles, forms generalizations, and uses them in new situations • Wants to learn and is curious • Works conscientiously and has a high degree of concentration in areas of interest • Understands and uses various symbol systems • Is reflective about learning • Is enraptured by a specific subject • Has reading comprehension skills advanced for his or her age • Has advanced writing abilities for his or her age • Has strong artistic or musical abilities • Concentrates intensely for long periods of time, particularly in a specific area of interest • Is more aware, stimulated, and affected by surroundings • Experiences extreme positive or negative feelings • Experiences a strong physical reaction to emotion • Has a strong affective memory, re-living or re-feeling things long after the triggering event

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Please understand that extreme weather conditions, hot, cold, or severe weather, may lead to cancellations, or dogs only attending your adoption event!

Taking your 75 % number as an example, I think they understand something like this: «75 % of the strength of this extreme event is attributable to global warming», or «There's 75 % chance that this event would not have occurred without global warming».

I believe that I understand the method used to derive the increase in likeliness of a type of extreme event due to global warming, but the trouble begins when the results are used to say something meaningful about real extreme events, or at least what the media make of it.

I think most journalists and laypeople understand the results in some kind of twisted way similar to what Tim formulated, that is, as applicable to a particular extreme event that they're considering, and not to the statistics of these extreme events.

I mention how two studies of lake mud, one centered in New England and the other Ghana, powerfully shaped my understanding of the need to consider past extremes in the context of today's extreme weather events and what might be coming through this century and beyond with the greenhouse - gas buildup.

I understand scientists can not attribute a single extreme event to GW; it may in God - only - knows reality be due to GW, but scientists don't have the tools to make such a claim.

The key thing (as I understand it) is how changing the climate is going to influence events that we currently regard as extreme and, hence, rare.

«The ability to understand and explain extreme events in the context of climate change has developed very rapidly over the past decade.

So, the honest answer in statements to the press regarding extreme weather events is this: «climate change is happening and is possibly a factor in this weather (or hurricane) event but our current understanding shows no significant (or some) correlation.

In my research group, we are focused on understanding whether global warming has influenced the probability of a given kind of extreme event (such as the probability of a warm December in Alaska).

The research increases the understanding of how the water cycle is related to extreme events and could eventually help in predicting droughts and floods, said lead author Jiangfeng Wei, a research scientist at The University of Texas at Austin's Jackson School of Geosciences.

(VIDEO) Visualizing data makes it easier to understand exactly how an extreme weather event affected people's lives, livelihoods, and property and how those things could be affected in the future.

Thinking about climate change in the context of how these extreme events will change can help farmers and other end users to understand its implications.