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Displaying 15 of about 191 results… under various scenarios of sea-level rise and a range of wave events for community members, property owners, … as well as state and county officials. The West Maui Wave-Driven Flooding With Sea Level Rise tool was created by … water quality. Hawaiʻi has experienced an increase in wave plus tide-driven flooding in recent years, and these …
… the hardest. What’s the link between climate change and wave strength? Our previous work found climate change is … wind patterns change as well. In turn, this can alter the wave conditions across the world’s oceans. But due to reasons … oceans are heating at different rates in different places, wave conditions are not changing at the same rate everywhere. …
… waves by quantifying change in high-frequency extreme wave events over decision or impact-relevant time horizons … The projected increases in high-frequency extreme wave forcing across most of the Southern Hemisphere present … with up to ∼50%–100% increases in extreme, persistent wave events (i.e. wave-storm-spell duration) over the low and …
… hurting their fragile livelihoods, a survey finds Rising heat and heavier rains across South Asia, as the planet … street-food vendor, has also seen her income shrink as heat and unseasonal rains reduce the length of time she can … have led to a dip in paid work, with increasing cases of heat-stroke and water-borne diseases affecting families. In …
… tools include walls, boats, and evacuation drills. When a heat wave blanketed swaths of Washington state last summer with … Medical Center in Seattle. The state reported 100 heat-related deaths in one week. Since then, hospitals around …
The resilience of people in northeastern Bangladesh against Himalayan flooding has been severely challenged this year. Thousands of homeless and destitute people have struggled to deal with extreme flooding.
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This year's flooding has also challenged the Bangladeshi government's disaster management capacity.
"The excess Himalayan floodi…
… Highway in the Hunza Valley. The ongoing unprecedented heat wave melted ice on Shisper Glacier, creating a lake which … action in the face of the climate crisis. The scorching heat of summer arrived sooner than expected this year in …
… spell, the Westphalia floods, the Mediterranean summer heat wave, Hurricane Ida, the Po Valley tornado outbreak, Medicane … and intensity of extreme events such as cold spells, heat waves, storms or floods. A pertinent question is then …
… to continue for the foreseeable future. Unimaginable heat in China 🇨🇳 The longevity and intensity of the heatwave is hard to comprehend. Too many heat records to count, both day and night. Beibei hit 45°C … floods to date. These events were connected by a Rossby wave causing a high pressure pattern to get stuck over …
… position. This undulation in the jet stream is a Rossby wave. Rossby waves usually then move eastward, guided by the … time can lead to prolonged downpours, but also to lengthy heat waves. During the flooding on the east coast of … time can lead to prolonged downpours, but also to lengthy heat waves. During the flooding on the east coast of …
… and southern Pakistan, experienced a record-breaking heat wave made 30 times more likely by climate change, … than 120°F for extended periods of time. The unprecedented heat wave also triggered glacial melt in the northern region …
… Niño in living and fossilized Galápagos corals. In 1983, a heat wave struck the waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean, … of the eastern Pacific, but it triggers droughts, floods, heat waves, and other climate extremes across the globe. A …
… for only the fifth-warmest June-August , yet regional heat waves shattered records. Global warming is undoubtedly a … the increasing extremes that marked the summer of 2022 – heat waves, droughts and floods, sometimes one on top of the … than normal. In the Southern Hemisphere, that marine heat wave over the South Pacific led to the warmest and wettest …
… weather recorded during March and April this year. This heat accelerated glacier melting in Pakistan’s north, … caused these unusual weather events: a one in 100-year heat wave and rainfall over nine times the average rainfall in …
… development programmes. Floods, Droughts, Cyclones, Heat Waves and Cold Waves, Dengue, JE and COVID-19 have been … cooperation with the private sector. Following the first wave of COVID-19 last year, it became imperative to better … numbers of Incidences for JE, Dengue, Drought, Floods, Heat waves, Cold waves and Cyclone during 1995-2020. 48 …