Impacts of Climate Change
- Created by: eviedeehan
- Created on: 10-03-24 18:40
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- Impacts of Climate Change
- ENSO
- El Nino - winds decline and reverse - warm water towards S America, increase rain and flood risk
- ocean temperature drops in Australia, less rain and drought risk
- La Nina - exaggerates normal weather and does opposite of El Nino
- El Nino - winds decline and reverse - warm water towards S America, increase rain and flood risk
- increases uncertainty with weather patterns - sea levels rise and sea temp increase - tropical storms
- drought risk
- USA, Central America and the Mediterranean - similar latitude with reduction in rain
- especially those with high populations and reliance on tourism e.g Spain
- flood risk
- SE Asia - 70% of Bangladesh is on a floodplain and majority is only 1m above sea level
- likely to cause glacial melt in the Himalayas - flood rivers, sea levels rise
- Sahel
- arid region - South of Sahara Desert
- 100mm - 600mm per year, typically between July to September
- 90% of water falls in this time
- 70s and 80s -drought, poverty and civil war in Eritrea and Ethiopia
- re-greening
- areas with more precipitation - 5 recent years have been wetter - locals have taken advantages e.g vegetation and afforestation
- ENSO
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