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Displaying 45 of about 242 results… Climate Risk and Adaptation Outlook, Phase 1: Temperature, Heat Index, and Average Wind” — is CCRDS’s first publicly … user facility. Authors of the study analyzed temperature, heat index and average wind over a historical (1995-2004) and … temperatures will offer less relief during a heat wave. This could result in lots of air conditioners running …
… Engineering and Computing. Oregon State University’s large wave flume and directional wave basin Previously known as the Tsunami Wave Basin, the Directional Wave Basin was designed to …
… that its magnitude can be used to estimate the tsunami’s wave height. How much earlier the magnetic field arrives … field, similar to that of the beginning of a seismic wave, can be used for the purpose of early tsunami warning. … magnetic field is so sensitive that even a wave height of a few centimeters can be detected. “They did …
… speed of these disturbances and found the electromagnetic wave along the magnetic field lines travelled at 1000 … per second. This was far faster than the air pressure wave, which traveled at the speed of sound (a comparatively … of the ionospheric disturbance caused by the air pressure wave about three hours before the pressure wave originating …
… Northeastern University in Boston, Fard mapped the risk of heat waves to residents of Brookline, Mass., using a … become a global concern. The team identified the hazard (heat waves) and vulnerabilities that can lead to adverse … coronavirus risks. This time, the hazard was not a heat wave, but COVID-19. “The Centers for Disease Control and …
… newly engineered artificial reefs that could decrease wave energy and help save coastlines from destruction during … After testing in the SUSTAIN facility (the largest wave and wind tank simulator in the United States, housed at … the shores of Miami Beach to see if these help moderate wave energy. If they work, these artificial reef structures, …
… or even ice and snow. In this study, three nonlinear wave regimes are identified depending on the Froude … non-linear transition waves at small Froude number. The wave amplitude relative to the water depth increases with … or decreasing function of Froude number. Two of these wave regimes are rationalized by considering that the …
… trained, it is able to predict extreme weather events like heat waves and cold spells with ~80% accuracy up to 5 days … at Rice, realized that extreme weather events like heat waves and cold spells usually arise from very unusual … an extreme weather event in North America, either a heat wave or a cold spell. To do this, the researchers first used …
… landslide. Researchers come up with models to predict wave runup onto the shore following a landslide on an … challenging part is to account for the nonlinear nature of wave runup and rundown, as well as the complex shelf zone … on shallow-water equations to describe both surface wave generation and landslide movement. Despite a number of …
… On the afternoon of April 13, 2018, a large wave of water surged across Lake Michigan and flooded the … the Great Lakes caused by an atmospheric inertia-gravity wave. An atmospheric inertia-gravity wave is a wave of air that can run from 6 to 60 miles long …
… relaxed various restrictions, including when a second wave and peak of the COVID-19 pandemic would occur, how many … the Tampa Bay area the peak number of cases in the first wave has likely already occurred, but only if current … releasing lockdown restrictions before the first wave ends will lead to a significantly bigger second wave of …
… the imperfections to act as "waypoints." As a seismic wave jostles the fiber cable, the waypoints shift minutely in … thus allowing scientists to track the progression of the wave. The DAS instrument used in this study was built and … to generate so-called Scholte waves—a type of seismic wave that occurs at the interface of a liquid and a solid. By …
… these events can be triggered by a small external shock wave. Bring a flotation device: it involves the ground … next to the experimental setup, triggering a small seismic wave, they saw how all the granules rapidly shifted in … “We found that a very small perturbation, a small seismic wave, is capable of causing a granular material to completely …
… the platform incorporates tens of thousands of storm wave simulations generated through variables such as storm … in relation to a storm threatening landfall. Actual storm wave inundation modelling on Tuvalu’s islands is very complex … reproduced with scaled waves generated to show true wave impacts. The results were used to calibrate and train …
… cyclones and wind storms; flooding, drought and extreme heat and cold events. The publication also provides most … mean surface temper- ature, global mean sea level, ocean heat content, ocean acidification, sea-ice extent and changes … highest MHW categor y (for definitions, see Marine heat wave and marine cold spell data) experienced at each pixel in …