Extreme weather
Large reorganizations in butterfly communities during an extreme weather event
... Keywords: Conservation, functional groups, landscape management, resilience, life-history traits, extreme weather events, environmental change, community composition.. Type of paper: [r] ...
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How To Know If A Country Is Affected By Extreme Weather
... to extreme events that countries should understand as warning to be prepared for more frequent and/or more severe events in the ...of extreme weather events, whereas, for example, heat waves – which ...
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Insurer Resilience in an Era of Climate Change and Extreme Weather: An
... Having sustained, over the course of more than two decades, record- breaking natural catastrophe losses, American insurers and reinsurers are justifiably questioning the potential linkage between anthropogenic climate ...
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GIS-based regression modeling of the extreme weather patterns in Arkansas, USA
... severe weather events and time of day, elevation, and magnitude (Tables 1, 2 and ...these weather hazards to be strong in areas of high ...all weather events are centralized around Little ...to ...
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Vulnerability of horticultural crop production to extreme weather events
... The effects of water (drought or periods of heavy rainfall) on pest and disease populations will depend entirely on the species and the timing of the event. Some species will prosper in dry conditions, others will not. ...
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Images of extreme weather: symbolising human responses to climate change
... There is, for example, an image of a Pakistani mother standing in deep flood water holding up her two children. 2 Despite the clearly very grim conditions, sig- nalled by the dull and dirty colour of the water and its ...
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Resilience of Traffic Networks to Extreme Weather Events: Analysis and Assessment
... • As any of the cost functions previously presented in the literature (see Chapter 2), a new travel cost function has to reflect that when a perturbation occurs in a traffic network, the effects will be larger when the ...
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Extreme Weather, Climate and Natural Disasters in Ireland
... In this context, ‘hydrological proxy’ is used to include palaeo-precipitation, surface water, water-table depth and flood indicators. In Ireland few natural archives have been identified that store palaeo-precipitation ...
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The Role of Transport Information in Extreme Weather Events: A Scenario Based Experiment
... during extreme weather events can be considered to be outside of the normal range of events by their very ...the extreme and unfamiliar conditions they may encounter, and the adaptions that may be ...
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Resilience of construction SMEs to extreme weather events
... From the previous discussions, it is evident that being resilient to EWEs will enable construction SMEs to minimise negative impacts of such events. More importantly, being resilient will allow businesses to realise and ...
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Extreme weather conditions in the Great Barrier Reef: drivers of change?
... Results from the monitoring program (Johnson et al. 2011; Thompson et al. 2012; McKenzie et al. 2012) show increased juvenile coral mortality and impacts on seagrass communities including increased mortality and ...
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Risk analysis of interdependent Critical Infrastructures to Extreme Weather Events
... Growing scientific evidence suggests that risks caused by critical infrastructure (CI) failure will increase worldwide due to more frequent and intensive extreme weather events (EWEs) induced by climate ...
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Effects of extreme weather events on smes: a literature review and synthesis
... Small and Medium-scale Enterprises (SMEs), which generate more than one half of the employment (58.9%) and turnover (51.9%), form an important sector of the UK economy. Although they are the main drivers of the UK ...
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Extreme Weather
... the weather and storms that drew me to the idea of creating a learning resource about extreme ...the weather interact with each other, a more rounded learning experience can be pro- ...
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Whether to insure against the weather: demand for extreme weather insurance in developing and developed country contexts
... against extreme weather, poses challenges, especially when there are so many competing uncertain options that are subject to individual perception and affect can test the limits of the study of heuristics ...
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Whether to insure against the weather: demand for extreme weather insurance in developing and developed country contexts
... There are some findings as to how the presentation/framing of data related to a potential extreme weather event affects the insurance purchase. It is widely accepted that graphical descriptions and ...
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Resilience of buildings to extreme weather events
... more extreme weather events. These extreme weather events in the UK are likely to increase with rising temperatures, causing among others more substantial rainfall events with an increased ...
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Climate change, extreme weather events and public health - Meeting report
... and extreme weather events, such as river basin flooding, cold-waves and heat-waves, and over recent years there had been a marked increase in these ...from extreme weather ...of ...
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Simulation of extreme weather events by a stochastic weather generator
... stochastic weather generator is a model capable of generating daily weather patterns that are statistically similar to the observed ...patterns. Weather generators are commonly used in climate change ...
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ISO Extreme Weather Indices: Heat Data Product Specification. Revision: A
... Environment and Climate Change Canada generates the extreme weather indices on a global scale. Agriculture and Agri-food Canada accesses the daily datasets in netCDFformat. Each dataset is converted to a ...
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