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and Changing Climate on Future US Hurricane Wind and Storm Surge Damages Kerry Emanuel Lorenz Center Massachusetts Institute of Technology Program Assessing Hurricane Event Risk Wind. Three Simultaneous Events n 1996 Congress passed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act or PRWORA which substantially restructured public assistance programs PRWORA gave states almost entire discretion to design and oper Objectives. Upon completion of this lesson, you should be able to:. find where functions are increasing or decreasing. A function . f. is . increasing. on (. a. , . b. ) if . f . (. x. 1. ) < . History of Sea Level Rise in Florida. 120,000 years ago 18,000 years ago Today. + 6 meters - 120 meters . Causes of Sea Level Rise. Thermal expansion of water. Using the Stratigraphic Record. Cores from the sediments of deltas examined for peat, mud, and soils. Transgressive. sequences. Determine the . paleoenvironment. Peat formation. Depositional processes. Stuart A. Weinstein. 1. , Laura S. L. Kong. 2. , Dailin Wang. 1. , Nathan C. Becker. 1. 1. Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, USA, stuart.weinstein@noaa.gov. 2. International Tsunami Information Center/UNESCO-NOAA, USA, l.kong@unesco.org. Section 4.2a. Definition: Increasing/Decreasing Functions. A function that is always increasing or decreasing . on. a . particular . interval is . monotonic. on that interval. Let be . a function defined on an interval. PLANNING FOR ACCELERATING SEA LEVEL RISE THROUGH THIS CENTURY AND BEYOND.. HAROLD R. WANLESS. hwanless@miami.edu. for . NAIC . Fall National Meeting . – Sea Level Workshop. Fontainebleau Hotel, Miami Beach. x. 0.5. x. 2. -2. 2. -1. 0.5. 0. 0. x. 0.5. x. 2. 0. 0. 2. 2. 3. 4.5. As . x . increases. y . decreases. As . x . increases. y . increases. This function is . decreasing when . x. < 0. This function is . Webinar for SCSEP . Subgrantee. Executives and Project Directors. Wednesday, April 22, 2015. Opportunities . during . Older Americans . Month (May). Examples of local activities conducted by our . subgrantees. Doug Marcy. NOAA Coastal Services Center. ASFPM 2011. May . 17. State, Regional, and County Needs. Assistance with collection of consistent, standardized elevation data and avoidance of duplication. Federal agency guidance and justification for flood, tide, and storm elevations for coastal areas to use for creating inundation models. Coastal Development. Philip . Orton, Research . Assistant Professor. Stevens Institute of . Technology. porton@stevens.edu. ; . Davidson Laboratory; Stevens . Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ. 2. Kayla Berger, Rachel Case, Chase Garrison, Austin Greenhill, Angela Kennedy, Lena Midgette, Alissa Ralston, Fallon Woolford & Alexa Zwicker. Introduction. . Everglades National Park established in 1947. Analyses are performed of an ocean-only model driven by observed winds, an idealized atmosphere-only model run with observed SSTs with a uniform tropical warming and an additional warming added to the tropical Indian Ocean, and GOGA and TOGA runs. Rohling. , EJ, GL Foster, KM Grant, G Marino, AP Roberts, ME . Tamisiea. , and F Williams. “Sea-Level and Deep-Sea-Temperature Variability over the Past 5.3 Million Years.” . Nature. , 2014.. 1. 2.