Neff's research helps us understand the health of massive glaciers with behavior we still don't fully understand but that lock up enough water to drive up global sea levels on the order of meters, not inches. (businessinsider.com)
«We saw changes in pH on the order of meters and those small pH changes drove the patterns in reef accretion - erosion.» (sciencedaily.com)
For example, if ice sheet mass loss becomes rapid, it is conceivable that the cold fresh water added to the ocean could cause regional surface cooling [199], perhaps even at a point when sea level rise has only reached a level of the order of a meter [200]. (journals.plos.org)