PPT-Floods: What We Know, What We Don’t Know, and a Case Stud

AtmosphericScience Seminar Colin Raymond October 2014 Outline What We Know IPCC Report What We Dont Know Yet Jain amp Lall 2001 Case Study Martius et al 2013 What We Know. Roads for Water and Resilience. Roads and floods. Floods have . costs. and . benefits. . Costs:. . damage to . infrastructure and houses, . lost lives and . crops . Benefits. : sedimentation. . provides . Watu. island. Changing climates. Imagine living with the constant danger that your home could be flooded at any time.. Our climate is changing and for many people living near riverbanks, the fear of flooding is never far from home.. in . S. lovakia. Beginning. . of . floods. floods in Central Europe in 2010 began in the Czech Republic 16th May 2010, when the level of rivers started to lift in northern Moravia. Poland. , Slovakia and . GraphG prof 1 prof 2 prof 3 prof 4 phd 5 stud 6 stud 7 adv adv adv adv adv sup sup GraphI 1 prof 2,3 prof 4 prof 5 phd 6,7 stud adv adv adv sup 1Fortheformaldevelopmentinthispaper,itwillbeconve-nientt the Bangladesh Coastline. Manar Hasan. GIS in Water Resources, University of Texas at Austin. December 1, 2016. Background. The National Geographic Society finds that Bangladesh is in an area that is most . Online . writing is . very. different from printed text (newspapers, books etc.). Why?. Why?. The web has millions of pages. The web is interactive. Reading on a computer is uncomfortable. Our lives are . National . Authority for Civil Protection . Luis Sá. Concepts. 1.By popular demand we know that a flood is an overflow of an expanse of water that submerges land.. 2. EU Floods directive defines a flood as a “. By Hillary Parrish. Scenario: . In April 2013, Buenos Aires was hit with a flash flood. In three days, the city received more rain than they typically receive in a month. People resorted to standing on their roofs and some were wading through water waist deep. It was estimated that 3,000 people were evacuated and up to 600,000 were without power, telephones, or potable water. The oil refinery had to be shut down due to a fire as result of rainwater accumulation. Cars were underwater. . 3 April 2014. 2. NWRCS integrated steps. . ECOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES TO SCENARIOS. 3. Need to answer the ‘what if’ questions. Express in terms of change in Ecological Category. Detailed process to predict changes in all the biophysical components per site and per scenario.. Tornadoes are . rotating columns of air that extend down from a storm cloud in the shape of a . funnel.. Anything . in the path of a tornado, including houses, cars, forests, and other ecosystems, . are . Catastrophic events. Before we can see how they affect ecosystems we need to understand how they form. HURRICANES. How do Hurricanes Form? . Stage 1: A Tropical Disturbance Forms. Most Atlantic hurricanes begin life as organized clusters of thunderstorms off the west coast of Africa. These thunderstorms form along waves in the prevailing trade winds. The waves, called easterly waves, can be more than 2500 km (1550 mi) long. The cluster of thunderstorms is called a tropical disturbance.. Surpluses in the hydrological cycle Today we are learning this content: 5.5 (a and b) Prepare for learning Complete the key terms Flooding the occurs when intense rainfall has insufficient time to infiltrate the soil, so flows overland Watu. island. Changing climates. Imagine living with the constant danger that your home could be flooded at any time.. Our climate is changing and for many people living near riverbanks, the fear of flooding is never far from home.. Atmospheric-Science Seminar. Colin Raymond. October 2014. Outline. What We Know (IPCC Report). What We Don’t Know [Yet] (Jain & . Lall. 2001). Case Study (. Martius. et. al. 2013). What We Know.