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Mind Map by Emilie Perreault, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Emilie Perreault
almost 3 years ago
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Week 7: Extreme Weather
- Disasters
- Increase in frequency
- Cost increase as
frequency increase
- Vulnerability increases
with poverty, limited
access to services and
resources
- Increase in frequency
- Rates Overtime
- 0.07 degrees per decade
since 1880
- 0.07 degrees per decade
since 1880
- Heatwaves
- Increase due to high pressure,
trapped air from Climate change
- Increased severity in urban areas, increased frequency
- Increased severity in urban areas, increased frequency
- Risk for anyone in
heat
- Heat exhaustion, heat stroke
- Heat exhaustion, heat stroke
- Increase due to high pressure,
trapped air from Climate change
- Precipitation Events
- Heavy rain caused by
snowmelt, glacial outburst,
coastal storms
- Flooding
- Flooding
- Droughts
- Crop failure, soil erosion,
dust storms, decreased
water supplies,
- Fires
- Fires
- Crop failure, soil erosion,
dust storms, decreased
water supplies,
- Future
- More rain in some areas, less in others
- Timing and extent
changes
- More intense storms,
less frequently
- More intense storms,
less frequently
- More rain in some areas, less in others
- Heavy rain caused by
snowmelt, glacial outburst,
coastal storms
- Ocean
- Aborbing
heat
- Delay impact of rising
temperatures
- Delay impact of rising
temperatures
- HIGH specific heat
- Circulation patterns
- Monsoons
- Seasonal reversals of wind
direction carrying wind and
water to places that need it
- Seasonal reversals of wind
direction carrying wind and
water to places that need it
- El Nino
- Reversal pacific Tradewinds,
warm water redistribution
- Reversal pacific Tradewinds,
warm water redistribution
- Transport of cold and warm water
- Regulation of global cliamte
- Regulation of global cliamte
- Monsoons
- Aborbing
heat
- Hurricanes
- Wind, rain, flooding, storm
surge
- Post hurricane: rebuilding,
infrastructure, decrease in
human wellbeing
- Post hurricane: rebuilding,
infrastructure, decrease in
human wellbeing
- Caused by high humidity,
no wind sheer, low
pressure
- Climate : storms retain higher
destructive power for longer
time
- Wind, rain, flooding, storm
surge
- Sea ice melt
- Raising sea level, extinction of
small island nations, floods, storm
surge
- Polar vortex
- Raising sea level, extinction of
small island nations, floods, storm
surge
- Permafrost melt
- Caused by warming
- Increase GHG, warming,
toxic mercury release
- Caused by warming
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