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About Floods And Droughts. It is shaded in red in the given map. Droughts occur when an abnormally long dry period uses up available water resources. Weather On The Go Ep 3. In the United States droughts can have major impact on agriculture recreation and tourism water supply energy production and transportation.
Events such as fires violent storms flooding and drought droughts being increasingly prolonged and even irreversible early or late frosts the increasing variability of seasonality inter-seasonal and inter-annual rainfall patterns and the arrival of new animal and plant diseases affecting production. Weather On The Go Ep 3. A 1 increase in the area affected by drought can slow a countrys gross domestic product GDP growth by 27 per year and a 1 increase in the area experiencing extreme rainfall can reduce GDP growth by 18 according to the study. Droughts and floods can significantly damage economic growth recent research has found. These floods cause extensive damage to crops domestic animals property and human life. We use this information to track floods usually caused by slow-moving summer thunderstorms rapid snowmelt due to rainfall or winter ice jams and droughts associated with abnormal weather patterns or climate change.
Thus floods which are an age-old phenomenon can be prevented from turning into a disaster.
Save Save Floods and Droughts For Later 89 89 found this document useful Mark this document as useful 11 11 found this document not useful Mark this document as not useful. Water gets accumulated in the coastal areas which results in floods. Events such as fires violent storms flooding and drought droughts being increasingly prolonged and even irreversible early or late frosts the increasing variability of seasonality inter-seasonal and inter-annual rainfall patterns and the arrival of new animal and plant diseases affecting production. Causes of Droughts and its Effects. We also collect data on sediment erosion transport and deposition which allows us to study the physical processes behind stream channels and floodplains. Since drought conditions develop over period of time and without immediately perceptible changes to environment.