Sentences with phrase «water given storms»

Another challenge is determining how well they retain and process water given storms of different intensity, duration and frequency, William said.

Not exact matches

The storm quickly gave way to a humanitarian crisis, with many of Puerto Rico's residents struggling to access food, water, and fuel to run generators and cars.

In another blow, wiretaps in the corruption trial of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos revealed that he pressured Mangano to give a $ 12 million storm water - treatment contract to a firm that was paying the senator's son, Adam, $ 10,000 a month.

The senator allegedly used his position to squeeze three companies in need of legislative support — New Hyde Park developer Glenwood Management, Arizona environmental technology firm AbTech Industries and Physicians» Reciprocal Insurers of Roslyn — and leaned on Nassau County to give AbTech a $ 10 million storm - water contract to help Adam.

During the joint appearance in Oceanside, L.I., to announce a Nassau County water treatment plant project, Cuomo invoked Winston Churchill's motto of «never given in» to say how New York tackled the aftermath of the devastating storm.

In Bangladesh and Thailand, coastal mangrove forests — important buffers against storms and tidal waves — are giving way to ocean water.

Storm drainage systems typically redirect most floodwater out to sea, but given the region's intense water deficit, hydrology scientists at the University of California, Davis, are experimenting with so - called groundwater banking, which involves sending storm water to flood fallow fields where it can percolate into the soil and replenish aquiStorm drainage systems typically redirect most floodwater out to sea, but given the region's intense water deficit, hydrology scientists at the University of California, Davis, are experimenting with so - called groundwater banking, which involves sending storm water to flood fallow fields where it can percolate into the soil and replenish aquistorm water to flood fallow fields where it can percolate into the soil and replenish aquifers.

Storm water pouring over the concrete floodwalls in many places eroded away the soil on the other side that gave those structures their footing.

Heat - reflecting white ice has given way to heat - absorbing dark water; snow has melted ever earlier on surrounding lands; more heat - trapping moisture has entered the atmosphere; and bigger waves and storms have assailed weakening ice.

You're in a landing craft with your infantry regiment, ready to storm the beaches of Normandy while your commanding officer gives a pep talk, aircraft fly above, and mortar shells boom on the sides of the beach, splashing water in your face.

Yes, to get a really good tropical storm, you need tropical warm waters and an arctic airflow above it, giving a huge temperature gradient in the atmosphere (low level warm air and freezing air above).

Given that NYC experienced 3 extreme high water levels associated with hurricanes between 1788 and 1893, but only one (Sandy) since then, we can reasonably argue that climate change, whether human - induced or natural, has reduced the threat of high storm surge.

The left panel just gives you more rain or snow in the storms that occur because of higher water vapor amounts.

And in the real world this is exactly what does heat up the land and water at the equator to give us our huge equator to poles wind system and our dramatic convected weather, our storms, our monsoons, our water cycle.

Why isn't man made develoment, farming hydromodifcation, and storm water facilities given more of the blame for global warming?

Higher sea levels give coastal storm surges a higher starting point when major storms approach and pile water up along the shore.

Though polar amplification — which is another term for how global warming spurs the poles to heat up faster than the rest of the world — helped to generate the upper level features in the atmosphere that would consistently generate storms running across the U.S. East Coast, widespread warmer than normal ocean waters helped to give these storms more fuel.

My educational background has given me a solid understanding of the chemical processes for storm water management and my on - the - job training has given me the opportunity to learn the engineering and design.