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Impact of extreme weather events and climate change for health and social care systems
... Enhanced risk identification involves understanding the factors making certain groups in the population rela- tively vulnerable, recording information on those most at risk, and acting on the information to target relief ...
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Climate change and health in Israel: adaptation policies for extreme weather events
... Based on predictive modeling, the average temperature might increase globally by between 2-5°C during the 21 st century [101]. Indeed, the impact of climate change is likely to worsen markedly in the coming decades in ...
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EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS CAUSED BY CLIMATE CHANGE
... The climate change is a strong challenge for cities around the world, especially in developing countries where urbanization is proceeding at high speed. In the last years to building resilience and adapting to climate ...
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Vulnerability of horticultural crop production to extreme weather events
... extreme weather events on horticultural crops was ...stochastic weather generator linked with UKCIP02 projections of future ...synthetic weather data were generated for baseline, 2020HI and ...
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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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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 Events and Migration: The Case of Morocco
... these weather shocks indeed contribute to migration, both temporary and permanent, by using a broader sample (for a brief review of the literature which informs this chapter, see the introduction of chapter 2 by ...
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The Role of Transport Information in Extreme Weather Events: A Scenario Based Experiment
... extreme weather events, and also to identify where they source it ...extreme events, and diversity of sources used to access ...extreme weather events, the findings arising from this ...
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Resilience of buildings to extreme weather events
... The IPCC report “Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation” (2012) discusses short- and long-term responses to extreme weather events. As short-term ...
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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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Statistical models for extreme weather events
... ticular lifecycle associated with frontal systems (Shapiro and Keyser, 1990). They can be characterised by the paths of local vorticity maxima they generate, which we re- fer to as tracks. There has been considerable ...
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First joint observations of space weather events over Mexico
... Figure 4 shows the FD observed by the Mexico City NM. From the baseline, the minimum of the FD is estimated as 6.6 %. The interval to reach the minimum was about 74 h, and the whole event lasted about 10 days. The event ...
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Risk analysis of interdependent Critical Infrastructures to Extreme Weather Events
... future events and outcomes (Aven, ...between events of a similar size or intensity ("Return Periods of Extreme Events - Climatica", 2017) and there are several well established methods to ...
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Dealing with uncertainty: an analysis of the severe weather events over Italy in 2006
... The present paper reports the first findings for some severe hydrometeorological events that occurred over the Italian ter- ritory and is structured as follows: Sect. 2 gives an overview of the tools and the ...
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Resilience of construction SMEs to extreme weather events
... SMEs may encounter unfavourable consequences if they are affected by EWEs, due to their increased vulnerability and not being adequately prepared to deal with such an event. Moreover, SMEs suffer even without having been ...
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Detection of the Process about Extreme Weather Events
... With global w come increas sessment repo about extreme particular tim ability ones, w even more low tion curve of events were strictly extrem what damage cause to soci affected area focus on the p the fall of ex ...
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Review on Climate Change and its Effects on Construction Industry
... Extreme Weather Events (EWEs), especially in poor developing countries, and the international community is progressively suggesting the design of adaptation funds to resolve this ...
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Characterising the relationship between weather extremes in Europe and synoptic circulation features
... Extreme events and the associated mech- anisms on short, sub-daily to daily timescales are studied, providing complementary information compared to previous investigations focusing on longer temporal ...to ...
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Met Éireann Annual Report 1998
... II 1998 was a good year for forecasting in which all of the main significant weather events were.. warnings by Met tlreann enabled preventative.[r] ...
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IMPROPER AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES LEAD TO LANDSLIDE AND MASS MOVEMENTDISASTERS: A CASE STUDY BASED ON UPPER MADI WATERSHED, NEPAL
... Geologically, the upper Madi watershed is narrow, steep, and bounded by high rugged mountains. The Higher mountain slopes of the Madi watershed are composed either of bare bedrock or more commonly of bedrock mantled by ...
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