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Week 7: Extreme Weather
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Extreme weather events linked - how climate impacts extreme weather events
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climatechange
climateandweather
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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
Rates Overtime
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
Risk for anyone in heat
Heat exhaustion, heat stroke
Precipitation Events
Heavy rain caused by snowmelt, glacial outburst, coastal storms
Flooding
Droughts
Crop failure, soil erosion, dust storms, decreased water supplies,
Fires
Future
More rain in some areas, less in others
Timing and extent changes
More intense storms, less frequently
Ocean
Aborbing heat
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
El Nino
Reversal pacific Tradewinds, warm water redistribution
Transport of cold and warm water
Regulation of global cliamte
Hurricanes
Wind, rain, flooding, storm surge
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
Sea ice melt
Raising sea level, extinction of small island nations, floods, storm surge
Polar vortex
Permafrost melt
Caused by warming
Increase GHG, warming, toxic mercury release
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