Sentences with phrase «higher average sea levels»

Higher average sea levels due to climate change will lead to higher storm surges and elevated flooding risks in coastal communities world - wide, even if the intensity or frequency of storms remains unchanged.

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The findings were not a total surprise, with future projections showing that even with moderate climate warming, air temperatures over the higher altitudes increase even more than at sea level, and that, on average, fewer winter storm systems will impact the state.

Around 3 million years ago, when temperatures were just 1 to 2 °C higher than the average of the past couple of millennia before humans began warming the climate, sea level was at least 25 metres higher than present.

«Within the next 15 years, higher sea levels combined with storm surge will likely increase the average annual cost of coastal storms along the Eastern Seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico by $ 2 billion to $ 3.5 billion,» the report says.

The first predications of coastal sea level with warming of two degrees by 2040 show an average rate of increase three times higher than the 20th century rate of sea level rise.

For example, the Northeast is already experiencing increases in severe rains and higher - than - average sea - level rise.

Bangladeshis have watched high tides rise 10 times faster than the global average, and sea levels there could increase as much as 13 feet by 2100.

Several countries had already set up coastal tide gauges — essentially, a float attached to a pen that traced a line on a chart — and were calculating mean sea level, defined as the average of sea level measured at regular intervals between high and low tide.

With higher levels of carbon dioxide and higher average temperatures, the oceans» surface waters warm and sea ice disappears, and the marine world will see increased stratification, intense nutrient trapping in the deep Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean) and nutrition starvation in the other oceans.

In August global sea surface temperatures reached record levels — the average temperature was 1.17 degrees Fahrenheit higher than the 20th century average.

The average flood height increased by about 4 feet in New York between the two time periods and with continued warming, larger and more extreme storms along with even higher sea level is likely to cause more frequent and intense flooding.

Here we have CO2 levels around 400 ppm, global average temperature about 2 or 3 degrees higher, and sea levels 25 to 35 meters higher (think ten story building).

Going back even further to the age of the dinosaurs, life flourished in a time of high CO2 and generally warm average temperatures with high sea levels.

Take South Florida, where, a few years back, the rate of sea level rise shot up from close to the global average to something much higher.

Ocean heating accounts for about 40 percent of global sea level rise, because water expands as it warms up; global average sea level from January through November was also a record high, the WMO said.

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«These new results indicate that relative sea levels in New Zealand have been rising at an average rate of 1.6 mm / yr over the last 100 years — a figure that is not only within the error bounds of the original determination, but when corrected for glacial - isostatic effects has a high level of coherency with other regional and global sea level rise determinations.

a base value sea - level rise of 0.5 m relative to the 1980 — 1999 average be used, along with an assessment of potential consequences from a range of possible higher sea - level rise values.

-- It is very likely that average sea level rise will contribute to upward trends in extreme sea levels in extreme coastal high water levels.

This decade - long satellite altimetry data set shows that since 1993, sea level has been rising at a rate of around 3 mm yr — 1, significantly higher than the average during the previous half century.

At this acceleration rate the sea level will peak in 2025 at an average level of 40 mm higher than it was in 2000.

«The science behind this is mean sea level, which is an average of high and low tides.

Global average sea level was likely between 4 and 6 m higher during the last interglacial period, about 125,000 years ago, than during the 20th century, mainly due to the retreat of polar ice -LRB-

Global average sea level was likely between 4 and 6 m higher during the last interglacial period, about 125,000 years ago, than during the 20th century, mainly due to the retreat of polar ice (Figure TS.21).

Each base's exposure is calculated based on the National Climate Assessment's midrange or «intermediate - high» sea level rise scenario (referred to in this analysis as «intermediate»), which projects a global average increase of 3.7 feet above 2012 levels, by 2100; and a «highest» scenario based on a more rapid rate of increase, which projects a global average increase of 6.3 feet.

g Changes in observed extreme high sea level closely follow the changes in average sea level -LCB- 5.5.2.6 -RCB-.

During El Niño, warmer than average surface waters and higher than normal sea levels persist along the U.S. West Coast.

Global sea - level rise is accelerating: from 1993 to 2003 the rate was 70 percent higher than the average rate for the twentieth century.

These academically peer - reviewed papers show that sea levels were on average 2 meters higher earlier in the Holocene than they are today.

Global average temperatures were between 5.4 and 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit (3 to 4 degrees Celsius) higher than today, and sea level was as much as 131 feet (40 meters) higher in some places.

By the late 21st century, climate models project that sea level will rise up to a foot higher than the global average along the northeast US coastline, resulting in a dramatic increase in regional coastal flood risk.

For the time interval during the LIG in which GMSL was above present, there is high confidence that the maximum 1000 - year average rate of GMSL rise associated with the sea level fluctuation exceeded 2 m kyr — 1 but that it did not exceed 7 m kyr — 1.

Plants live on soils over land (sea plants are lucky, plenty of CO2 there), where the average CO2 level is 30 - 40 ppmv higher than in the bulk atmosphere, even larger if you measure at ground level.

The sea level high - stand was associated with the so - called Climatic Optimum or the Holocene Optimum, during 8000 to 4000 BC when average global temperatures reached their maximum level during the Holocene and were warmer than present day.

This change in sea level occurred in the context of different orbital forcing and with high latitude surface temperature, averaged over several thousand years, at least 2 °C warmer than present.

Global average sea levels have risen by around 3.2 mm per year since satellite measurements began in 1993, the report says, with sea levels around 67 mm higher in 2014 than they were in 1993.

Sea - level projections by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), by our research group and by others indicate that global average sea level at the end of the century would likely be about 1 - 2.5 feet higher under the Paris path than in 20Sea - level projections by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), by our research group and by others indicate that global average sea level at the end of the century would likely be about 1 - 2.5 feet higher under the Paris path than in 20sea level at the end of the century would likely be about 1 - 2.5 feet higher under the Paris path than in 2000.

Global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations have now passed 400 parts per million (ppm), a level that last occurred about 3 million years ago, when both global average temperature and sea level were significantly higher than today.

Global sea level averaged over the decade was about 20 cm higher than in 1880, the report says.

October air temperatures at the 925 hPa level (about 2,500 feet above sea level) were unusually high over most of the Arctic Ocean (Figure 2c), especially over the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas and over the East Greenland Sea (up to 8 degrees Celsius or 14 degrees Fahrenheit above the 1981 to 2010 averagsea level) were unusually high over most of the Arctic Ocean (Figure 2c), especially over the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas and over the East Greenland Sea (up to 8 degrees Celsius or 14 degrees Fahrenheit above the 1981 to 2010 averagSea (up to 8 degrees Celsius or 14 degrees Fahrenheit above the 1981 to 2010 average).

A layperson can easily look up previous inter-glacial periods and see they ALL had higher temperatures, higher sea levels and a variety of CO2 levels (which had NO effect on global warming) ALL previous I - G periods became significantly warmer than our current average global temperatures, with sea levels ranging from 6mtrs to 12mtrs (20ft to 40ft) higher than today.

By 2100, global average sea level rise could be as low as 25 cms, or as high as 123 cms; between 0.2 % and 4.6 % of the world's population could be affected by flooding each year; and losses could be as low as 0.3 % or as high as 9.3 % of global gross domestic product.

Then, the world on average was 3 - 4 degrees Celsius warmer than it is today and sea levels were much higher.

It warns that within the next 15 years, higher sea levels alone will likely increase the average annual cost of coastal storms along the eastern seaboard and Gulf of Mexico by $ 2 billion to $ 3.5 billion.

The Arctic had a weak Dipole Sea Level Pressure (SLP) with a low on the Eurasian Side and a high pressure region from north of the Bering Strait across northern Canada; the SLP pattern is typical of the long term average (1981 - 2010).

During the last interglacial about 125,000 years ago, when global average temperatures were not substantially warmer than at present, sea level was 4 - 6 meters (about 13 to 20 feet) higher than at present.

d In all scenarios, the projected global average sea level at 2100 is higher than in the reference period [Working Group I Fourth Assessment 10.6].

Researchers project that by 2100, average sea levels will be 2.3 feet -LRB-.7 meters) higher in New York City, 2.9 feet (0.88 m) higher at Hampton Roads, Virginia, and 3.5 feet (1.06 m) higher at Galveston, Texas, the EPA reports.

The last time in Earth history when the global average surface temperature was as warm as the IPCC projects for 2100 in its mid-range scenarios, there was very little polar ice and sea level would have been roughly 70 meters (over 200 feet) higher than at present.

That's why, for example, New York and New Jersey could experience sea - level rise that's 8 inches higher than the global average this century.