Sentence examples for of river floods from inspiring English sources

The study is based on projections of river floods on regional scales.

"Storms of biblical proportions and a heavy discharge of river floods might have buried sediments rapidly.

Alfieri, L., Burek, P., Feyen, L. & Forzieri, G. Global warming increases the frequency of river floods in Europe.

In many parts of the world the frequency of river floods (flash floods) seems to have increased during the past half century.

The re-occurrence pattern of major extremes in hydrology, such as the timing and intensity of river floods, is related to a variety of natural and anthropogenic factors.

This study presents a proof-of-concept that can be applied to other polluted aquatic systems, to understand the importance of river floods in the contamination of the bed sediments of aquatic systems.

(River forecast centers are concerned with the threat of river flooding, as opposed to weather forecast centers, which continued to warn of flash floods throughout that weekend).

Alfieri, L. et al. Global projections of river flood risk in a warmer world.

Paprotny, D. & Morales Nápoles, O. Pan-European data sets of river flood probability of occurrence under present and future climate.

As the events of 1953 demonstrate, the consequences of a flood from the sea are far greater than the consequences of river flooding.

Without additional adaptation measures, the number of people affected by the worst 10percentt of river flooding events will increase in many places, says the study.