Climate impacts Flashcards
1
Q
are impacts linear or not
A
not - more jumpy
2
Q
geological impacts
A
- river flooding
- hurricanes
- glacier hazards
- sea level rise
3
Q
human impacts
A
- cost of pensions are dependent
- infastructure
- health impacts
- loss of life
- migration
etc
4
Q
what’s event based attribution
A
find out how many times an event occurs in a model of preindustrial GHG forcing and current levels
assess the difference
5
Q
what makes flooding worse
A
rainfall
groundwater levels rising
basic catchment hydrology
river network characteristics
6
Q
ways to compare hurricane intensity
A
- power dissipation index
- storm maximum power dissipation index
its the rise in magnitude that does the harm
7
Q
what is the rough lag time of glacier floods
A
100 years
glacier floods are slowing down
