GUS 0821 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Sea Surface Temperature, Sea Level Rise, Food Security
12 Jul 2018
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Part 2, hazards and human vulnerability, more intense rainfall, more floods, landslides, pollution of water, destroyed harvests, another consequence of climate change is more. Rainfall that will lead to more inundation, threaten. Migration of people living in flood prone areas. No need to explain what this means for. Food security and health: more intense tropical storms, higher wind speed and more rainfall. An increase in the number of strong hurricanes has been observed: higher sea surface temperatures increase strength and duration of hurricanes, the average number of hurricanes remains more or less the same over time. Especially the increase of rainfall during tropical storms has disastrous impacts: only 11% of all hurricanes occur in the atlantic, the rest are in the. Pacific and indian oceans: there has been a large upswing in the frequency of atlantic hurricanes, beginning in 1995. Increases in the number of high sea level events are being recorded.
