Sentences with phrase «year flood events»

PCIC's Trevor Murdock delivered a talk about the 200 - year flooding event in Bella Coola, discussing the results of climate downscaling approaches and future projections, which call for greater changes in more extreme events and wetter winters.

Not exact matches

Sandy, whose ferocity is described by weather experts as a once every 700 years event, left in its wake a path of destruction that wiped out entire towns, squashed power grids, flooded regional transportation, and hobbled tens of thousands of small businesses, the economic lifeblood of New Jersey and New York.

Your first stop should be The National Climate Assessment, an interagency effort by the U.S. federal government, puts out a report every few years, assessing the likelihood of floods, fires, heat waves, hurricanes, and other climate - based events.

Since the ice sheet would have floated away in the event of a global flood, the ice core is strong evidence that there was no global flood any time in the last 110,000 years.

If jungle tribes who have had no contact with civilization for thousands of years have stories about a flood, doesn't this indicate that some sort of flood event did actually happen?

About $ 1 million will be used to restore infrastructure damaged by last year's flooding, while the rest will be used to find projects to help prevent further damage in the event of future flooding.

The floods have been triggered by the weather event known as El Nino, a warming of surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean that wreaks havoc on weather patterns every few years.

2014 has been a significant year of accomplishments for Mark, including working with the Legislature to pass a balanced budget with a small tax cut, opening the Erie County Health Mall, signing an executive order requiring that all contractors with Erie County comply with equal pay laws for women, restructuring the Department of Social Services while hiring more CPS caseworkers, and managing the emergency response to four major weather - related events: two blizzards, flooding in West Seneca and Winter Storm Knife.

According to ancient Chinese texts that mix historical events with legend, about 4,000 years ago a hero named Yu tamed a flood and went on to become China's first emperor.

As last year's dramatic images of waterlogged streets across the UK, US and Russia serve to remind us, extreme weather events can trigger devastating floods.

The sediments in Sky Pond in the Rocky Mountains show that around 1950 nitrogen began to flood the lake, an event unprecedented in at least 14,000 years and this isotopic record too could have a pretty precise start date: July 2, 1909 when Fritz Haber first demonstrated how to make ammonia from the air in Germany.

By 2050, according to a recent article in Nature, «some places can expect to see what is currently considered a 100 - year - flood event recur as often as every one or five years on average.»

An analysis of flood claims in several southeast Houston suburbs from 1999 - 2009 found that the Federal Emergency Management Agency's 100 - year flood plain maps — the tool that U.S. officials use to determine both flood risk and insurance premiums — failed to capture 75 percent of flood damages from five serious floods, none of which reached the threshold of a 100 - year event.

Sebastian said focusing on 100 - year events is also problematic because short, intense rainfall events that don't meet the 100 - year threshold can still cause serious flooding.

The ancient genome predates a mysterious migratory event which occurred roughly 3,000 years ago, known as the «Eurasian backflow», when people from regions of Western Eurasia such as the Near East and Anatolia suddenly flooded back into the Horn of Africa.

The storm surge breached New York City's hundred - year - old sea walls and flooded the underground network of subway tunnels — the most destructive event in the subway system's 108 - year history, according to Metropolitan Transportation Authority chairman Joseph Lhota.

Newly published research by Rhawn Denniston, professor of geology at Cornell College, and his research team, applied a novel technique to stalagmites from the Australian tropics to create a 2,200 - year - long record of flood events that might also help predict future climate change.

NCAR, which is financed in part by the National Science Foundation, has spent several years searching for ways to extend the predicability of floods, droughts, heat waves and other extreme weather events from weeks to months as a way to give weather - sensitive sectors such as agriculture more time to protect themselves against costly losses.

Queensland could face devastating floods rivalling those seen in 2010 - 11 in just a year's time, as the effects of climate change and an impending La Niña weather event combine.

Previous studies have used a variety of computer models and data from fossils and flood events to argue that ENSO has become more exaggerated over the past 11,000 years, known as the Holocene period.

New data show that extreme weather events have become more frequent over the past 36 years, with a significant uptick in floods and other hydrological events compared even with five years ago, according to a new publication, «Extreme weather events in Europe: Preparing for climate change adaptation: an update on EASAC's 2013 study» by the European Academies» Science Advisory Council (EASAC), a body made up of 27 national science academies in the European Union, Norway, and Switzerland.

Other researchers have previously shown that this deluge, known as the Zanclean flooding event, took only a few years to fully replenish the Mediterranean.

That means 5 million Europeans who are currently under threat of flooding from extreme sea level events that occur every 100 years could face that same risk annually, according to the new study.

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«The St. Louis levees protected us from the 1993 flood, considered a 330 - year event,» he said.

Changing climate patterns have had considerable impact in Texas in recent years in the form of extreme weather events such as droughts, floods, extreme heat.

The same team had connected several weather events last year to man - made global warming including Hurricane Harvey that battered the U.S. and Caribbean and the French floods.

It's a sign of the changing of the times that 15 years ago this combination of A-list stars would have been one of the biggest events of the year, whereas now Money Monster is a sleeper bit of counter-programming for viewers seeking out a more adult alternative to the mammoth blockbusters flooding in for the summer movie season.

A recent report issued by the UN shows that over the last twenty years, 90 per cent of major disasters have been caused by 6,457 recorded floods, storms, heatwaves, droughts and other weather - related events.

Over the next two years, the initiative will flood the schools with leadership and staff training, art supplies, musical instruments, arts programs, and community arts events — and help them leverage SIG funding to support arts education.

Little does Delia know that the week she returns home to Nashville will be the week of the 2010 flood, a 1000 - year event that swamped Music City (and much of Tennessee).

The reasoning behind this is that floods are often massive events — look at Sandy, or even what happened years ago in Johnstown, PA..

The areas all have 1 - percent - annual - chance (1 % chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year) for a flood event or shallow flooding and marked on a Flood Insurance Rate Map and designated as:

«Our takeaway is that, given the current amount of federal assistant along with flood insurance, even in an event that is very large, such as Hurricane Katrina,» he said, «The negative effect of this natural disaster peters out after two or three years, and at least according to the financial information that's taken directly from these individuals» financial background, there isn't any significant drag after a few years.»

Hurricane Floyd was so enormous it was called a «500 year flood» event — meaning there's just a 1 in 500 chance of flood that big or bigger happening in a given year.

The folks over at Make Mine Chocolate share alternative offerings and events that benefit rabbit rescue groups (who are flooded with unwanted bunnies just days after Easter every year).

For the last few years, Sony has flooded the PlayStation Store with quality titles in the Spring as part of their «Spring Fever» event.

Among the highlights of its first eight years are: Bernd Alois Zimmermann's harrowing Die Soldaten, in which the audience moved «through the music;» the unprecedented six - week residency of the Royal Shakespeare Company in their own theater rebuilt in the drill hall; a massive digital sound and video environment by Ryoji Ikeda; a sprawling gauzy, multi-sensory labyrinth created by Ernesto Neto; the event of a thread, a site - specific installation by Ann Hamilton; the final performances of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company across three separate stages; the New York Philharmonic performing Karlheinz Stockhausen's sonic masterpiece Gruppen with three orchestras surrounding the audience; WS by Paul McCarthy, a monumental installation of fantasy, excess, and dystopia; a sonic environment that blurred the boundaries between artist and audience created by the xx; an immersive Macbeth set in a Scottish heath and henge by Rob Ashford and Kenneth Branagh; tears become... streams become..., a genre - defying collaboration between artist Douglas Gordon and pianist Hélène Grimaud, which flooded the Armory's drill hall with an installation of water, light, and music; and HABEAS CORPUS, a performance and installation by Laurie Anderson based on the story of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee that examines lost identity, memory, and the resiliency of the human body and spirit.

Susan Anderson's NYT link: «The flooding in Louisiana is the eighth event since May of last year in which the amount of rainfall in an area in a specified window of time matches or exceeds the NOAA predictions for an amount of precipitation that will occur once every five hundred years, or has a 0.2 percent chance of occurring in any given year.»

The Midwestern flooding, described as a «once in 500 years event» may now be a regular, every ten year event.

Also I seem to remember that old forests adapt better to extreme events than young forests; young forests (especially during the first ten years of life) tend to seqester very little carbon during drougts, floods and so on.

On the River Model The modeling from almost 10 years ago predicts that this level flood becomes a 10 - percent - likelihood event if the basin becomes widely urbanized.

However, higher temperatures do cause an increased chance of heavy precipitation events, and it is likely that the flooding in some of this year's U.S. flooding disasters were significantly enhanced by the presence of more water vapor in the air due to global warming.

100 - year floods are not periodic events.

For example, a study for New York showed that what is a once - in - a-century flooding event (submerging subway stations etc.) now, whould occur every 3 years if sea level were just 1 meter higher.

«British Columbia is one of the provinces that has felt the full effects of climate change over the past few years with the mountain pine beetle as well as increases in flooding events and other impacts.»

In the course of the last 15 years, governments and authorities the world over have been warned loudly and repeatedly that global warming could be accompanied by a greater risk of severe weather - related events: floods, heatwaves, ice storms, typhoons and droughts.

A likely cause for the 8.2 ka event is an outburst flood during which pro-glacial Lake Agassiz drained about 1014 m3 of freshwater into Hudson Bay extremely rapidly (possibly 5 Sv over 0.5 year; Clarke et al., 2004).

Each year calculate the ratio of the annual cost damage from climate related events like hurricanes / tornadoes / floods / droughts / freezes / forest fires to the annual cost of damage from non-climate natural events like earthquakes / tsunamis / volcanoes.

The so - called 100 - year flood is likely to become more frequent.4 Because transportation planners use such events to determine infrastructure needs, future plans based on the past are likely to become less reliable — and planners will need to develop models that reflect the effects of climate change.7