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Displaying 75 of about 312 results… By Ker Than After an unusually intense heat wave, downpour or drought, Noah Diffenbaugh and his research … pressure pattern that occurred over Russia during the 2010 heat wave has become more likely in recent decades, and that …
… highs ( statewide and regionally ), a deadly heat wave , the most destructive and lethal wildfires in the … overheated, or underwater. Climate-smart also can reduce heat-trapping emissions, spend limited public funds wisely, …
… died and two were seriously injured when a large wave hit an offshore platform in the North Sea. A lack of … therefore, is being able to predict accurately how a wave’s forces will impact a structure during severe weather … and motions on floating offshore structures in extreme wave conditions has just successfully concluded. Dr Nagi …
… of coastal habitats (natural defences) in reducing wave heights and the biophysical parameters that influence … salt-marshes, coral reefs and seagrass/kelp beds for wave height reduction and synthesises the costs and coastal … coastal habitats have significant potential for reducing wave heights. In general, coral reefs and salt-marshes have …
… the islanders a robotic protector: a $180,000 autonomous Wave Glider drone that harvests wave and solar energy to move and power itself for months at … machine as fast as three knots. [...] Sugioka thinks the Wave Glider is now ready to graduate. In May 2017 she plans …
… earthquake and tsunami simulation exercise – ‘CARIBE WAVE 17’. This year’s figure sets a new record for the … in the regional exercise began in 2009. CARIBE WAVE 17 provided an opportunity for the Territory to improve … from participants and has made available a ‘CARIBE WAVE feedback survey’ that individuals can use to provide …
… another during an earthquake. Experiments conducted in wave tanks in the 1970s demonstrated that vertical uplift of … simulated horizontal seafloor displacements in a wave tank and observed that the resulting energy was … the seafloor's movement. After critically evaluating the wave tank experiments of the 1980s, Song found that the tanks …
… a 10-to-30-second alert between the epicenter’s first wave and the destructive wave that follows. The Ottawa-based company, which won a … a 10-to-30-second alert between the epicenter’s first wave and the destructive wave that follows. The Ottawa-based …
… allows to accurately predict the effects of the wave and perform a simulation before the actual events in … time it will take to land, the magnitude and height of the wave, the coastal penetration and the flood that it would … Bay, Alaska, in 1958. Said case presented the greatest wave ever to be registered associated with this type of …
… then categorized dates within this range as either “smoke-wave” (which are “high-pollution episodes from wildfire smoke”) or “non-smoke-wave” days. The researchers examined the Medicare population … group on the basis of their geographic exposure to smoke-wave days. They also used Medicare claims data to find the …
… which utilised latest research tools to assess baseline wave climate and its variability as well as the predicted changes in wave climate in the Pacific region. Acting Director for SPC’s … Geoscience, Akuila Tawake, said that understanding the wave climate in the Pacific region is important for climate …
… paper, published in the journal Natural Hazards, examined wave and sea level data around historic flood events and … which has an average land elevation of just one metre. Wave ‘set up’ – the raising of water levels at the coast … of flooding. This effect was increased by prolonged swell wave conditions, where large, energetic waves are generated …
… which utilised latest research tools to assess baseline wave climate and its variability as well as the predicted changes in wave climate in the Pacific region. Acting Director for SPC’s … Division Akuila Tawake said that understanding the wave climate in the Pacific region is important for climate …
… developed a tool called “BEWARE”: Bayesian Estimator of Wave Attack in Reef Environments for predicting flooding … widely in their physical structure. Furthermore, the wave and sea level conditions affecting them often vary … data availability by generating an artificial database of wave conditions on coral reefs using the physics-based XBeach …
… time for the government to roll out a national policy on heat protection? Research shows that extreme heat can result in physical (cardiovascular and … consistent educative policy across Australian schools for heat protection. Many schools have site-specific or varying …