{"id":2745,"date":"2016-04-16T08:25:28","date_gmt":"2016-04-16T00:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/16\/many-extreme-weather-events-can-be-traced-back-to-an-atmospheric-traffic-jam-study-suggests\/"},"modified":"2016-04-16T08:25:28","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T00:25:28","slug":"many-extreme-weather-events-can-be-traced-back-to-an-atmospheric-traffic-jam-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/16\/many-extreme-weather-events-can-be-traced-back-to-an-atmospheric-traffic-jam-study-suggests\/","title":{"rendered":"Many extreme weather events can be traced back to an atmospheric 'traffic jam,' study suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When weather patterns hit a traffic jam, extreme events often result. This is particularly the case during the summer months, a new study argues.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The research, published Friday in the journal Science Advances<\/i>, focuses on a devastating flood event that struck Serbia and the nation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in May of 2014.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: March was Earth’s 11th-straight warmest month on record<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The flooding, which resulted from a relentless four-day deluge, killed at least 48, displaced about 150,000 and caused about 3.5 billion euros in damage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The study pinpoints a phenomenon known as “planetary wave resonance” for trapping the storm above the Balkans. More specifically, the study says a “quasi-stationary circumglobal Rossby wave train” helped deny the storm an escape route.\u00a0<\/span> Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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When weather patterns hit a traffic jam, extreme events often result. This is particularly the case during the summer months, a new study argues.\u00a0 The research, published Friday in the journal Science Advances, focuses on a devastating flood event that … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}