Sentence examples for extreme year from inspiring English sources

Calculations show that in an extreme year with a "probable maximum flood," the spillway would be far too small.

"One extreme year in 10 can drive the system, and so long-term data gives us context.

Last year brought a dozen, at a cost of $52 billion, making it the most extreme year for weather since accurate record keeping began in the 19th century.

The figure was later revised so it was slightly less "catastrophic" than the other extreme year in 2002-03, said Haeberli.

The year 2012 was also an extreme year for Greenland, with record melting across its entire surface flushing water into the ocean and accelerating sea level rise.

Three test years, a dry year, a wet year, and an extreme year, were considered in the evaluation.

A comparison based on the 5-year moving average of DWM-induced reductions smoothed out the extreme year-to-year variations and indicated very similar reduction trends provided by both methods.

Moreover, they reported more extreme year-ahead inflation expectations and showed more disagreement than did a third group that had been asked to recall the average change in price changes.

This higher drought sensitivity is likely reflected both in climate-growth relationships over longer periods of time, as well as in growth responses of tapped pine trees in extreme years.

The evaluation of extreme years and the potential implications of projected climate change can also be seen in the depiction of precipitation, potential evapotranspiration, actual evapotranspiration, runoff, and recharge for a landscape-scale view across northern California (Figure 11).

"The chances of a really early melt are increasingly unlikely as the years go by, and you'd need a couple of extreme years like 2007 in a row to reach that now," he said.