Sentences with phrase «where is sea level»

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While liftoff speed is around 170 mph at sea level, a commercial airliner's cruising speed is around 550 mph at 40,000 feet — where the air density is 10x thinner.

«Where I live, we're 36 feet above sea level.

The Seawalk is a glass walkway on the starboard side of the ship 40 metres above sea level, where you can see straight down to the ocean below.

Being able to roll up our own sleeves and help out certainly creates a narrative of optimism, where climate change isn't such a big problem that we just want to run and hide from it, burying our heads in the sand (as the sea level rises).

As someone who likes the sea levels where they are, I find taxing greenhouse gas emissions compelling, like taxing cigarettes, which reduced smoking, extended lives, and increased revenues.

Massive demographic and economic shifts, as well as historic levels of technological and media disruption, are turning this once predictable industry — where «average» was king — into a sea of turbulent change, leaving consumer behavior permanently altered.

by the Jordan River which makes a very crooked, rapid descent from Mount Hermon in the north to lose itself in the Dead Sea, 1,300 feet below sea level, east of the mountainous section where Jerusalem is situatSea, 1,300 feet below sea level, east of the mountainous section where Jerusalem is situatsea level, east of the mountainous section where Jerusalem is situated.

On the way down I was shown the lines in the rock where Noah's flood rose to, which explained why there were sea fossils in the rock at these high levels so far from the sea.

The Blue Ridge Mountains where the bison graze are more than 3,000 feet above sea level, and Dr. King feels that helps the bison the same way it creates more red blood cells in athletes training at elevation.

Grown and cultivated in the pristine mountains of Thailand, some 5,000 feet above sea level, where tea cultivation has been a way of life for over 1700 years.

Twelve thousand feet above sea level, flatlands stretched where only mountains were meant to be.

Check into the Pit, the below - ground arena in Albuquerque, where the elevation (5,200 feet above sea level, then 86 feet down into the earth) is posted in the visitors» locker room, and the crowd is so crazy that Colson has to use t «ai chi to calm down his team to a functional emotional level.

And I think vapor trails materialize waaaaay up there,... where it's really cold; not at sea level.

«That necessitates taking a flexible approach, where possible: building for the half foot to 1.3 feet of sea - level rise that are likely by 2050, while plotting out options that will depend on what we learn in the next few decades and how sea level rises beyond that.»

In this study, the research team excavated intertidal beach sediments on the shoreline of Calvert Island, British Columbia, where the sea level was two to three meters lower than it is today at the end of the last ice age.

In northwest Africa, where what Werz has called an «arc of tension» runs through Nigeria, Niger, Algeria and Morocco, he said the projected massive population growth combined with small - onset changes brought about by climate change — like sea - level rise along the Niger Delta, the loss of hundreds of villages through desertification and the virtual disappearance of Lake Chad — is bad enough.

Things are really bad like losing ice sheets, starting to raise sea levels, where coastlines have to be redrawn and people have to move.

Furthermore, the impact of this sea level rise will be more pronounced in locations, such as Jakarta, where there is subsidence of the land.

In places where sea - floor oxygen levels are a bit higher — about 0.5 — 3 % of concentrations at the sea surface — animals are more abundant but their food webs remain limited: the animals still feed on microbes rather than on each other.

Estuaries are places where rivers meet the sea, providing nursery habitat for fish and shellfish while buffering many coastal communities from the impacts of coastal storms and sea level rise.

The new model has recently been put to the test in New York City, where the rate of sea level rise is more than 3 mm per year in an area that currently houses more than $ 25 billion of infrastructure at less than 1 meter above sea level.

Generally speaking, there are two types of crust on Earth: a lighter continental crust that is rich in silicon and constitutes the dry land above sea level, and a denser oceanic crust where water gathers in the form of large oceans.

The storage site near Fukushima's reactor 4, where the leak was discovered, lies some 50 meters above sea level and is just a few hundred meters from the coast.

So, we're talking about this period 3.5 million years ago, this is the middle Pleistocene, and that's where the CO2 concentrations were round about 400 ppm; and if we want to look at CO2 concentrations considerably higher than that, we're going to go much deeper in time, and then we're really going into periods where sea level was even higher.

Developers aren't interested in rehabilitating his father's home on the short strip of Northeast 58th Street, where houses are about 10 feet above sea level.

This stress can contribute to accelerated loss of marsh area through erosion in a region where marshes are already rapidly disappearing, due to high relative sea level rise.

Rohling: Yeah, so what we see is that for a current level of forcing, so 1.6 watts per meter square net forcing, if we look in the relationship that we now recognize between sea - level change and climate forcing, we're are, more or less, looking at in the equilibrium state, natural equilibriumstate, where the planet would like to be that is similar to where we were 3.5 million years ago and that's where we're looking at sea level, you know, at least 15 meters, maybe 25 meters above the present.

The team analyzed the contours of the land where the stories were told and used scientific reconstructions of prehistoric sea levels to date the origins of each of the stories — back to times when fewer than 10 million people were thought to have inhabited the planet.

Blobfish live at depths of between 600 and 1,200 meters where the pressure is several dozen times higher than at sea level, and they can grow up to 12 inches in length.

To better understand and anticipate changes in sea level rise, scientists have sought to quantify how much snow falls on the ice sheet in any given year, and where, since snow is the primary source of the ice sheet's mass.

To isolate the effects of oxygen concentration, researchers from the University of Colorado compared the rate of SIDS in infants living at high altitudes, where the air is thin, to those living closer to sea level.

In the future, Orton says, improved storm - surge models could predict where flood zones should be drawn given future sea level rise, which is now done nationally by the Federal Emergency Management Agency with data from past storms.

«As more albatrosses relocate to higher islands like Oahu in response to sea level rise, where mosquitoes are more prevalent, this disease, and perhaps others, will become a more important threat to the species, so we need to understand more about it and how to prevent its transmission.»

It may be that we're very close to the point where an irreversible and relatively rapid rise in sea level will occur that's enough to obliterate coastal civilization as we know it.»

The tanks would be some 200 metres below sea level, where sea life is scarce.

As it dove through the gap, Cassini came within about 1,900 miles (3,000 kilometers) of Saturn's cloud tops (where the air pressure is 1 bar — comparable to the atmospheric pressure of Earth at sea level) and within about 200 miles (300 kilometers) of the innermost visible edge of the rings.

This week, the freak weather has been repeated in other areas of northern Spain and the Balearic Islands, where the snow has fallen at sea level and 200 metres respectively.

The calving front of the glacier is now located in a deeper area of the fjord, where the underlying rock bed is about 1300 metres below sea level, which the scientists say explains the record speeds it has achieved.

It's sort of hard to define exactly where the atmosphere ends and outer space begins (since the atmosphere gradually falls off as you go up in altitude), but one popular choice is the so - called «Karman line» at a height of 100 km (or around 62 miles) above sea level.

The region where the outcroppings were found was re-submerged as the Gulf waters rose but are now above sea level and about 100 miles from the Gulf coast, due to later geologic movement known as Tectonic activity, which would have reopened the passage between the Gulf and the world's oceans.

«The global mean sea level is rising because of climate change, but the change depends on where you are in the world,» says Rüdiger Haas.

In western states where snowpack is critical, we found decreases in the percent of winter precipitation falling as snow at elevations between sea level and 5,000 feet.

I would like to echo Mr. Edmonds inquiry as to the stability of the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers which seem to connect directly to the Byrd Subpolar Basin, where the ice sheets are grounded far below sea level.

«This is important for regional planning, because it allows policymakers to identify places where climate change dominates the observed sea level rise and places where the climate change signal is masked by shorter - term regional variability caused by natural ocean climate cycles.»

Nieves said an example is the U.S. West Coast, where the phase of a multi-decadal ocean climate pattern called the Pacific Decadal Oscillation has helped keep sea level rise lower during the past two decades.

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[SLIDE 26] Coastal erosion — this is the village of Shishmaref, in the far far north of Alaska, where the coastal erosion is not so much from rising sea level but the melting sea ice has reduced the protection from waves.

In the current situation, where the north is heating and the south is not, if the sea level rises that means the global ice quantity is INCREASING.

That option is currently being tested by Thorne and UCLA researchers at Orange County's Seal Beach, where sea level rise is simulated because the ground has experienced subsidence, or sinking.

Once complete, we should have a much better idea of how and where ice - ocean interactions are strongest, and what the implications will be for sea level rise.