Sentences with phrase «average sea level by»

For an annual - and area - average warming exceeding Embedded Image in Greenland and Embedded Image in the global average, the net surface mass balance of the Greenland ice sheet becomes negative, in which case it is likely that the ice sheet would eventually be eliminated, raising global - average sea level by 7 m.

Citing international scientific estimates, the task force says the region can expect a further 2 - to 5 - inch rise in average sea level by as early as 2020.

Because a reduction in mass of 360 Gt / year represents an annual global - average sea level rise of 1 mm, these estimates equate to an increase in global - average sea levels by 0.19 mm / yr.

Not exact matches

With rates of sea - level rise along parts of the nation's Eastern seaboard increasing three to four times faster than the global average, experts are working to mitigate the effects by identifying threats, organizing collaboration among governments and organizations, as well as examining better...

With rates of sea - level rise along parts of the nation's Eastern seaboard increasing three to four times faster than the global average, experts are working to mitigate the effects by identifying threats, organizing collaboration among governments and organizations, as well as examining better communication techniques.

Sea levels are rising globally by 3 millimetres on average.

«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.

«Our study illustrates that the complexity of climate change, adaptation, and flood damage can be disentangled by surprisingly simple mathematical functions to provide estimates of the average annual costs of sea - level rise over a longer time period.»

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.

If Earth were a perfect sphere, perfectly uniform in density and covered to a uniform depth with ocean, the geoid — a word coined by geologists to refer to an imaginary plane located at the average level of the sea's surface — would be a perfect sphere as well.

«When we modeled future shoreline change with the increased rates of sea level rise (SLR) projected under the IPCC's «business as usual» scenario, we found that increased SLR causes an average 16 - 20 feet of additional shoreline retreat by 2050, and an average of nearly 60 feet of additional retreat by 2100,» said Tiffany Anderson, lead author and post-doctoral researcher at the UH Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology.

The average rate of sea - level rise increased by 3 millimeters a year before 2006, and then jumped to 9 millimeters a year on average after 2006.

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.

The report's authors, who also include scientists from federal agencies, Columbia University and the South Florida Water Management District, concluded that evidence supports a «worst - case» global average sea - level rise of about 8.2 feet by 2100.

With a volume of more than 700,000 cubic miles and an average thickness of 4,000 feet, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) holds enough water to raise sea levels by 15 to 20 feet — and it is already sweating off 130 billion tons of ice per year.

Global average sea level has risen by roughly 0.11 inch (3 millimeters) per year since 1993 due to a combination of water expanding as it warms and melting ice sheets.

But even though the sea level around the world will rise by an average of 80 cm, the sea level in the Gulf of Bothnia in Finland is expected to fall by 10 cm due to land uplift.

The paper reports that 107 marine - terminating glaciers are underlain by fjords extending on average 67 kilometers (41.6 miles) inland below sea level, a number 300 percent greater than one previous assessment.

Sea level has been rising about 3 millimeters per year, on average, since 1993, according to data gathered by space - based radar altimeters.

Even under a more moderate scenario where greenhouse gas emissions peak in 2040, 100 - year extreme sea levels could increase by 57 centimeters, or nearly 2 feet, on average, by the end of the century, with these events occurring every few years, according to study's authors.

And thermal changes, such as those caused by ENSO also raise and lower the average sea level.

A «business - as - usual» climate scenario (RCP8.5) will lead to another 74 centimeters of global average sea - level rise by 2100.

Indeed, the most recent IPCC report concluded that the sea - level rise contribution associated such an event «can not be precisely quantified,» but would contribute «several tenths of a meter» of global average sea - level rise by 2100.

By the 20th century, sea levels were climbing, on average, some 1.4 millimeters (0.06 inch) per year.

Dr John Church of the Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research added: «The most recent research showed that sea level is rising by 3 mm a year since 1993, a rate well above the 20th century average.»

One recent modeling study focused on this mode of instability estimated that the Antarctic ice sheet has a 1 - in - 20 chance of contributing about 30 centimeters (1.0 feet) to global average sea - level rise over the course of this century and 72 centimeters (2.4 feet) by the end of the next century.

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.

Imagine sea levels rising by feet instead of inches, global average temperatures increasing by many degrees instead of just fractions and an increase in other cataclysmic, costly and fatal weather events.

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Personally I think the approach taken by Church and White (2006, 2011) probably comes closest to the true global average sea level, due to the method they used to combine the tide gauge data.

It appears to me that the surface thermohaline currents in the conveyor must be mediated by sea - level inhomogeneities (long - lived, average ones).

Last year, Arctic sea ice fell to the lowest level ever recorded by satellite, 39 percent lower than the long - term average from 1979 to 2000.

For example, if this contribution were to grow linearly with global average temperature change, the upper ranges of sea level rise for SRES scenarios shown in Table SPM - 3 would increase by 0.1 m to 0.2 m. Larger values can not be excluded, but understanding of these effects is too limited to assess their likelihood or provide a best estimate or an upper bound for sea level rise.

This approximation (very) closely tracks sea - level rise from 1880 to 2000 by assuming that the rate at which height increases is a strict linear function of the temperature with a straight averaging of the calculated rate for a period from 15 years before to the point in time for which height is being calculated (i.e., the embedding period).

On average, the world's glaciers and ice caps lost enough water between 1961 and 1990 to raise global sea levels by 0.35 - 0.4 mm each year.

That conclusion, based on a new, sophisticated computer model, makes the worst - case scenario of sea level rise — an increase of 6 feet or so, on average, by 2100 — look less likely to play out.

The most severe impacts of climate change — damaging and often deadly drought, sea - level rise, and extreme weather — can only be avoided by keeping average global temperatures within 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F) of pre-industrial levels.

If the Greenland ice melted completely, it would drive up sea levels by an average 7.2 metres, swamping deltas and low - lying islands.

The obsession with average sea level rise compared with other coastal hazards (increases in water levels driven by storms as well as tsunamis) is a good illustration of how the focus on climate change is distorting assessments of risks and hazards.

The Greenland ice sheet, earth's second largest after Antarctica, holds enough ice that, if it were to melt entirely, it would raise average global sea level by about seven meters.

It found eight of the atolls and almost three - quarters of the islands grew during the study period, lifting Tuvalu's total land area by 2.9 percent, even though sea levels in the country rose at twice the global average.

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.

Climate scientists have been able to close the sea level «budget» by accounting for the various factors that are causing average global sea levels to rise at the measured rate of about 3.2 millimeters per year since 1992 (when altimeters were launched into space to truly measure global sea level).

Although the IPCC climate models have performed remarkably well in projecting average global surface temperature warming thus far, Rahmstorf et al. (2012) found that the IPCC underestimated global average sea level rise since 1993 by 60 %.

The study said sea level rise, caused by factors including a thaw of glaciers, averaged about 1.2 millimeters (0.05 inch) a year from 1901 - 90 — less than past estimates — and leapt to 3 mm a year in the past two decades, apparently linked to a quickening thaw of ice.

The global average sea level has already risen by about eight inches since 1901, with up to another two and a half feet of sea level rise possible by 2100, according to the most recent projections from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Global average sea level is projected to rise by 18 to 59 cm by the end of the 21st century (2090 - 2099), depending on the scenario (Table 3).

Specifically, the sea level has increased by 5.4 millimeters annually since 1990, which is twice as much as the global average.

The increasing failure of the monsoon has been attributed to a number of factors including temperatures rising by an average 0.5 degrees Celsius over the last 100 years, receding Himalayan glaciers and rising sea levels.

Data, collected for the years 2003 through 2010, indicates that melting ice raised sea levels worldwide by an average of 1.48 millimeters (0.06 inches) each year.