extreme event
collocation in Englishmeaningsofextremeandevent
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extreme
adjective
uk/ɪkˈstriːm/us/ɪkˈstriːm/
very large in amount ...
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event
noun[C]
uk/ɪˈvent/us/ɪˈvent/
anything that happens, especially something important ...
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(Definition ofextremeandeventfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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First, it could serve as a basis for estimating whether one or more paths are required to explain the mostextremeeventin the trajectory.
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Such anextremeeventhas a probability of 0.50 raised to the power of the number of trials.
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Allied to these are avoiding seasickness, getting sufficient sleep, food and drink and staying injury-free for the duration of anextremeevent.
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Anextremeeventhas been modelled incorporating failure of the entire landslide mass identified by.
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Anything deeper than 2 meters is referred to by the offshore engineering community as an "extremeevent".
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The fuse would dissipate energy after yielding and be easily replaced after anextremeevent.
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A singleextremeeventcan be devastating for species with a restricted range.
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In addition, the frequency and strength ofextremeeventsuch as floods and storms are likely to threaten safety and health.
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Extreme events of size 100 or greater are highly unlikely, and more extreme events are virtually impossible.
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Furthermore, there exists a self-reinforcing process, in which market extreme events amplify the herd effect, which further exacerbates asset dependency.
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It is to be noted that the risk of damage increases, even if such extreme events did not become more frequent.
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Why do distributions of historical data almost always contain a few extreme events that seem to have had a different cause from all the rest?
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One may consider policies explicitly aimed at avoiding such extreme events, however.
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This is done under the assumption that such extreme events must have been caused by a different process than produced the rest of the data.
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In addition, they show that there exists a self-reinforcing process, whereby market extreme events amplify the herd effect and this further exacerbates asset dependency.
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While such a rainfall is fairly extreme, it is likely that relatively extreme events play a controlling role in the process of channellization.
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This is an important study since it provides good evidence to suppose that an increase in the frequency of extreme events could lead to spatially synchronized disease outbreaks.
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We then use this information to implement a semiparametric approach to forecast the expected variation in corn yield and the probability of occurrence of extreme events conditional on climate predictors.
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Despite the uncertainties surrounding climate change, the risks of potentially adverse impacts on the food system, coastal zones, and increased occurrence of extreme events should be avoided by early action.
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