Sentences with phrase «above sea level so»

The land here is a few hundred meters above sea level so it attracts a very different set of birds than those that are found near the ocean.

Cuzco sits at a high altitude of 3300m above sea level so this is what makes it difficult.

Not exact matches

However, it is worth noting that life, and baking, are different 7,703 feet above sea - level, so your conclusions may be different from mine.

I live in Mexico City though (2,250 m above sea level), so unless you're much higher up than me that shouldn't be the issue.

• How LeBron James exists among mere basketball humans, while doing things like blocking an Andre Iguodala transition layup out of nowhere and doing so at what felt like 57 feet above sea level

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.

So it all comes down to Tuesday night in Quito, at nearly 10,000 feet above sea level.

In Malé, the capital of the Maldives, more than 120,000 people live just a meter or so above current sea level.

Cerro Paranal's altitude above sea level is another — the VLT's optical and infrared view of the sky is uninterrupted by clouds and the atmosphere is so thin there is not even enough turbulence to make the stars twinkle, pretty for you and me but an annoying source of error for astronomers.

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.

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.

A large contribution from the Greenland Ice Sheet is unlikely, as it is mostly grounded above sea level and so mass loss from calving ice bergs is limited.

Keep in mind though that I'm an avid hiker and mountain biker in the summer, and I live at high elevation (7500 feet above sea level), so I get a good deal of daily sun, which is why my levels jumped from 35 - 52 ng / ml after a couple months of daily summer sun.

Overall, it's important to remember you are hiking about 1200 feet above sea level, so before going it's good to know what to wear and bring.

However, I wouldn't recommend a day trip because one: It's so gorgeous you need more than a day to soak up it's beauty, and two: I am apparently very sensitive to altitude adjustments and because it is 4,500 feet above sea level, driving up and down in less than 24 hours plus add on that I get extremely motion sick was not the best combination for me.

So this is life in Auckland and Wellington and on an exposed live volcano, two thousand metres above sea - level, capturing some of the spirit of Kiwi culture, and the subset which is its fascination with snow sports.

The highest point in Oklahoma happens to be here, so if the two of you are up for it, a spectacular view from almost 5,000 feet above sea level may just be worth the trek.

You'll be climbing for 30 minutes or so up a mild incline to the summit X above sea level.

La Paz sits nearly 4,000 m (13,120 ft) above sea level, so be prepared for cool evenings and mornings.

There is so much to see above and below the sea level.

Lake Tahoe is 22 miles long and almost 1900 metres above sea level — higher than most European resorts, so the snow comes early and stays late.

It's high — almost 8,000 feet above sea level — and it was a sunny, so I suggest taking loads of sunscreen and water.

So, by the time we came to start the trek I wasn't worried about how well my body would cope with hiking at altitude (the summit of the Laguna 69 hike was 4600 metres above sea level); the only concern I had was that the experience would not live up to my (incredibly high) expectations.

The south - facing, 10 - hectare site rises from the 70m - high cliff - face to the resort's entrance, which is about 110m above sea level, so providing all villas with great views of the Indian Ocean.

The only problem with all the predictions about the level of the World Ocean rising is that, the World Ocean is refusing to rise up in support of the predictions, the other problem is that ice is frozen fresh water and frozen fresh water only covers about 5 % of this planet above sea level and frozen water under the level of the World Ocean does not count as the World Ocean will fall a small amount if that ice melts, so if the ice there is enough to get the World Ocean to rise and significant amount then it must be piled up very high, I cubic kilometer of water as ice, should it melt, would make 1000 square kilometers rise by one meter, so when you use this simple math then somewhere on the planet, above the level of the sea, then there must be over 500,000 cubic kilometers of ice, piled up and just waiting to melt, strange that no one can find that amount of ice, all these morons who talk about the rise of the World Ocean in tens of meters, this includes you Peter Garrett or Mr. 7 Meters, the ice does not exist to allow this amount of rise in the World Ocean, it is just not there.

Thousands of inhabitants live mere meters above sea level, so disaster could strike at any point.

So David what are your reactions to article such as the one linked by Alex above discussing fears about Antarctica glaciers adding 10 feet to the Global Sea Level when the IPCC AR5 WGI states explicitly that the current annual increase in GMSL from Antarctica is 20 % of the thickness of a dime and that the IPCC forecast for 2100 is to have the Antarctic glaciers adding only.05 Meter to Global Mean Sea Level.

The only real cause for concern I see is if you happen to live on a flood plain, river delta, or coral atoll and you have interrupted the natural mechanisms by which nature has always kept those locations above sea level — if so look to it.

Mount Rainier towers more than 14,000 feet above sea level, so you would think it would be easy to spot from nearby Seattle, at least on a clear day.

Such solecisms throughout the IPCC's assessment reports (including the insertion, after the scientists had completed their final draft, of a table in which four decimal points had been right - shifted so as to multiply tenfold the observed contribution of ice - sheets and glaciers to sea - level rise), combined with a heavy reliance upon computer models unskilled even in short - term projection, with initial values of key variables unmeasurable and unknown, with advancement of multiple, untestable, non-Popper-falsifiable theories, with a quantitative assignment of unduly high statistical confidence levels to non-quantitative statements that are ineluctably subject to very large uncertainties, and, above all, with the now - prolonged failure of TS to rise as predicted (Figures 1, 2), raise questions about the reliability and hence policy - relevance of the IPCC's central projections.

As coastal communities have become aware of the problems associated with groundwater depletion and coastal subsidence, the rate of local sea level rise has slowed, at Galveston at least (Paine et al., 2012, GCAGS Journal 1:13 - 26), so the likely sea level rise is even less than the corrections above would imply.

I live in Fremantle so I'm glad to hear my house built about 70 years ago and still above sea level, will last a little longer before being submerged.