Search Results - subject:"Sea levels"

The Economics of Climate Change in the Pacific

Asian Development Bank; Asian Development Bank (ADB) - 2013

climate change, including higher sea levels, intense storm surges and cyclones, erratic rainfall patterns, and major …

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After the rains: water’s impact for valuation practices

Cradduck, Lucy - In: Property Management 34 (2016) 2, pp. 158-174

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to reduce the potential for litigation by improving valuers’ awareness of water risks. As part of a valuer’s due diligence, the paper provides guidance as to how to identify such risks by explaining the different types and examining how online search...

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Superstatistical analysis of sea-level fluctuations

Rabassa, Pau; Beck, Christian - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 417 (2015) C, pp. 18-28

We perform a statistical analysis of measured time series of sea levels at various coastal locations in the UK …

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Long-term characteristics and extreme parameters of currents and sea levels in the Bohai Sea based on 20-year numerical hindcast data

Wang, Zhifeng; Dong, Sheng; Chen, Chengchao; Soares, C. … - In: Natural Hazards 76 (2015) 3, pp. 1603-1624

The Ocean model POM is used to simulate the currents and sea levels for the whole Bohai Sea continuously from 1985 to … currents and sea levels between simulations and station observations show good agreement in general. On this basis, tidal … astronomical tide are also given. Furthermore, current velocities at surface and bottom layers, high and low sea levels for 100 …

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Extreme dependence models based on event magnitude

Padoan, Simone A. - In: Journal of Multivariate Analysis 122 (2013) C, pp. 1-19

through an analysis of sea-levels recorded along the coast of the United Kingdom. …

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Understanding a coastal flood event: the 10th March 2008 storm surge event in the Solent, UK

Wadey, Matthew; Nicholls, Robert; Haigh, Ivan - In: Natural Hazards 67 (2013) 2, pp. 829-854

damage. To understand the impacts or hazards expected by different sea levels, waves and defence failures, it is useful to …

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Extreme sea levels, coastal flooding and climate change with a focus on Atlantic Canada

Thompson, Keith; Bernier, Natacha; Chan, Paul - In: Natural Hazards 51 (2009) 1, pp. 139-150

Estimation of the probability distribution of extreme sea levels, for the present time and the next century, is …

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Causes of the Unusual Coastal Flooding Generated by Typhoon Winnie on the West Coast of Korea

Moon, I.-J.; Oh, I.; Murty, T.; Youn, Y.-H. - In: Natural Hazards 29 (2003) 3, pp. 485-500

coast of Korea, which was farenough from the typhoon's center to lack significant local wind and pressure forcing.Sea levels … causes of the unusual high sea levels by using an Astronomical-Meteorological Index (AMI) and a coupled ocean wave … major cause of the high sea levels was not the standard inverse barometric effect supplemented by water piling up along the …

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Energy Security and Geopolitics in the Arctic:Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century

Peimani, Hooman (contributor) - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

, but on the entire planet, including the worsening of global warming and rising sea levels. The latter is a major threat to …

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THE TRANSNATIONAL ARCTIC AND RUSSIA

Kharlampyeva, Nadezhda Klimovna - In: Energy Security and Geopolitics in the …

AbstractThe following sections are included:INTRODUCTIONRUSSIA'S PRINCIPAL VIEWS ON THE ARCTICCOMPONENTS OF RUSSIA'S ARCTIC POLICY FORMATIONThe Arctic is a region of peace and cooperationThe Russian Arctic is a transportation route between Europe, Asia and North AmericaThe Arctic region is one...

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