Plenty were killed by various volcanic hazards, including extensive pyroclastic surges – gassier, cooler versions of pyroclastic flows.
Add rising sea levels, more extensive flooding during storm surges and the acidification of the coastal ocean, and California faces a phalanx of climate-related dangers to human health, agriculture, industry, economic productivity, and terrestrial and marine ecosystems.
Heavy rains, however, can produce significant flooding inland, and storm surges can produce extensive coastal flooding up to 40 km from the coastline.
Heavy rains, however, can cause significant flooding inland, and storm surges can produce extensive coastal flooding up to 40 km from the coastline.
The hurricane's strong storm surge at landfall caused extensive damage to coastal regions, especially lighthouses.
The combined systems could produce high winds, heavy rains and storm surges that would cause extensive damage.
"...a far-reaching plan... to protect New York City from the threat of rising sea levels and powerful storm surges by building an extensive network of flood walls, levees and bulkheads along its 520 miles of coast..
This paper investigates the presence of dependence between these two processes along the Australian coastline using the most extensive observational records of rainfall and storm surge events currently available.
We run extensive experiments to show how Uber's surge pricing is the driving factor of higher journey prices and therefore higher potential savings for our application's users.
Over the past two decades, America has become increasingly dependent on military contractors in order to carry out military operations abroad (in fact, the government's extensive use of private security contractors has surged under Obama).
Back then, an extensive government-backed economic stimulus package drove a surge in state construction projects and buoyed the Chinese economy.
