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Displaying 45 of about 89 results… indices evaluated for use in the study ERA5-HEAT Database (with two indices) Wet Bulb Globe Temperature … Bulb Globe Temperature is used as an index for estimating heat stress due to its relationship with physiological … humidity • Precipitation • Wind speed • Sunshine ERA5-HEAT is a global dataset of human thermal comfort indices, …
… the IFRC’s World Disaster Report (WDR) (IFRC, 2020) “Come Heat or High Water”. 20 Conclusion Extreme weather and … Change. IFRC, 2020. World Disasters Report 2020 - Come Heat or High Water. IFRC, 2013. A guide to mainstreaming … A., Feyen, L., 2017. Global changes of extreme coastal wave energy fluxes triggered by intensified teleconnection …
… is carried out for high diffusivity conditions with a heat capacity equal to 2.25 × 106 J m−3 K−1 and the … melting of the huge glacier ice mass with frictional heat generated during it high velocity down slope movement. … the sad demise of Dr. Renoj J. Thayyen dur- ing the second wave of COVID-19 on 22 April 2021 after the final submission …
… (see Table 1.1) — as the country suffered a devastating wave of crime and violence in 2021 that included extremist …
… Financial Drivers Analysis Scenario Analysis Risk exposure heat map ClimateWise Physical risk framework Summary view of … thus results in turbine lifespan decreases Changes in wave formation may damage offshore turbine foundations …
… on pipelines’ foundation Zakeri (2008) Determining sand-wave depth to ensure that pipelines are installed beneath the … and depositional proc- esses, compaction, gas, fluid and heat migration, stresses and temperature fields, and salinity … Methane Hydrate Morphology and Water Saturation on Seismic Wave Attenuation in Sand under Shallow Sub-Seafloor …
… Ocean, the coastline is subject to a very energetic wave regime (Fortunato et al. 2016). The climate in Portugal … tidal range amplification (Guerreiro et al. 2015). Wave propagation into the estuary is constrained by the … coast of Ireland is frequently struck by a very energetic wave climate that is often responsible for coastal flooding …
… damage to the country’s global standing from another wave or variant originating within its borders. At the same time, a new wave of infections and hospitalisations in Europe and the US … 3 Bruce Y. Lee, “New Covid-19 Coronavirus Wave In Europe May Have Already Begun, Data Suggests,” …
… simulations. The output of the PTHA includes tsunami wave height distributions along the coast. Then, an indi- … hierarchy process. The PTHA findings show that the tsunami wave height is close to 3 m on the southern coast of the … warranted, and they should consider tsunami hazards (wave height, inundated area, flow depth, flow velocity, and …
… event chain that may propagate beyond direct physical wave impact, causing damages to coastal infrastructures … risk. They watched the sea receding before the tsunami wave crest inundated the city causing major destruction. Many … with the local knowledge of “Smong”, (which means huge wave). They effectively conducted self-evacuation without …
… models [40,41], a model able to simulate tsunami triggers, wave propagation, run-up, and inundation on the island. These … terrain level, resulting from the difference between the wave height derived from the results of simulations and the … 30 m resolution to make it equivalent to the model-derived wave height maps. 3. Materials and methods 3.1. Creating a …
… uses the total water concept, using tide in total water, wave, and river conditions to generate inundation scenarios … space. The SWAN model [36] was utilised to generate wave computations using the same wind distribu- tions as for … et al. Progress in Disaster Science 13 (2022) 100216 3.6. Wave simulation Wave simulations were carried out using the …
… amount of chlorophyll in leafy vegetation and the short-wave infrared reflectance (SWIR) band is suitable for the … can be achieved between the near-infrared and the short-wave infrared bands, and because of the unique combination of … of the pre/postfire trajectory of a pixel in the short-wave infrared reflectance–near infrared reflectance …
… tsunami would have traveled, with on shore wave amplitudes significantly higher than would be expected … to an earthquake-generated tsunami9. A 1.2 m high tsunami wave was observed at Tonga’s capital Nuku’alofa on Tongatapu … broken the surface and afterwards was eroded away by wave action. It is south of Late Island and southwest of …
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