Sentences with phrase «coastal areas studied»

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The researcher team agreed that including extreme sea levels into coastal impact studies is imperative in helping vulnerable parts of the world effectively protect themselves by adapting through new or upgraded infrastructure such as dikes, pumping systems, barriers, or other tools like new building codes or flood zoning that prevents new infrastructure from being built in high - risk areas.

Sitting at the edge of the Patagonian Shelf, in an area rich in marine resources, the Falklands are a unique natural laboratory in which to study sustainable fisheries, global climate change, coastal erosion, and plant and animal evolution.

Enkelmann appreciates the challenge of collecting samples here because this range has the highest peaks of any coastal mountain range and is only 20 kilometers from the Pacific Ocean, but she points out that it is a tough area to study because of the big ice sheets.

No previous studies model how migration caused by sea - level rise will affect population other than in the directly affected coastal areas.

These fluxes could have a large influence in coastal environments, especially in areas with low availability of nutrients and in semiarid regions, such as the Mediterranean Sea,» explains Valentí Rodellas, UAB researcher who led the study as part of his PhD thesis.

One recent study by Gordon McGranahan, Deborah Balk, and Bridget Anderson (2007) found that although coastal areas less than 10 meters above sea level constitute only 2 percent of the world's land area, they contain 10 percent of the world's population.

Dale Jamieson, who directs the New York University Environmental Studies program and was not affiliated with the study, says Hallegatte's findings should be a wake - up call for wealthier nations with at - risk coastal areas who have not taken precautions to prepare for the results of climate change.

Slows Coastal Erosion Following the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, a study led by Danish ecologist Finn Danielsen reported that coastal areas flush with mangrove trees were markedly less damaged than those without.

«Areas of greatest vulnerability will likely be where deep waters, naturally low in pH, meet acidified surface waters,» such as areas of coastal upwelling along the West Coast and in estuary environments such Hood Canal, the new study predAreas of greatest vulnerability will likely be where deep waters, naturally low in pH, meet acidified surface waters,» such as areas of coastal upwelling along the West Coast and in estuary environments such Hood Canal, the new study predareas of coastal upwelling along the West Coast and in estuary environments such Hood Canal, the new study predicts.

Studies have shown that coastal subsidence has been highest in some areas with the highest rates of extraction.

A concurrent companion study to this work, led by James Bishop at the UHM Department of Geology and Geophysics, found that water collected from beach sands, which represents coastal groundwater, next to the Kahului Wastewater Reclamation Facility contained up to 75 % treated wastewater — highlighting the impact of wastewater in this area.

Previous studies, including work by Cai, have shown that acidification can be particularly serious in nutrient - rich coastal waters which often contain areas with too little oxygen and high levels of carbon dioxide near the bottom.

No one is more concerned than the Japanese, who are surrounded by seas; about 73 % of Japan is forested, mountainous, and unsuitable for agricultural, industrial, or residential use, as a result, the habitable zones are mainly located in or near coastal areas, so much so that, there are growing concerns in Japan of the impact of climate change on their coastal surroundings, prompting the Japanese government to set up an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to undertake a study on climate change, to provide future projections of coastal erosion based on representative concentration pathway (RCP) scenarios.

«This study demonstrates that human infrastructure development along coastal areas have long - term consequences on the ability of coastal wetlands to adapt to sea - level rise and other processes that reduce the size of coastal wetlands,» said Talib Oliver - Cabrera, the study's first author and a UM Rosenstiel School Ph.D. student.

«It's a tricky area of study, but omitting the coastal ocean from the overall carbon budget leaves a gap in projections for future atmospheric CO2 levels.»

The study site, Stardust Bay, faces a creeping part of the eastern Aleutian Subduction Zone, which is sandwiched between the rupture areas of historical earthquakes in 1946 and 1957 that generated tsunamis with devastating consequences to coastal communities around the Pacific Ocean.

Lead researcher Prof Paul Hunter, from UEA's Norwich Medical School, said: «Our study has shown that the risk of dengue fever is likely to increase in Europe under climate change, but that almost all of the excess risk will fall on the coastal areas of the Mediterranean and Adriatic seas and the North Eastern part of Italy, particularly the Po Valley.»

Meat, for instance, is now more popular in industrialized coastal counties instead of mainly pastoral areas, and as a result, has some of the same disease associations that fish did in the first China Study.

Archaeological studies conducted in the 1980's recognized the coastal reaches of the Bacalar region once supported several trading, agricultural and fishing settlements established by the ancient Maya; and the area has intermittently been utilized by settlers from colonial times to the present day.

Whether the storm was over land, ocean or coastal areas, clouds with more ice produced more lightning, researchers studying satellite radar images report in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

The NASA icesat & glaciology study that showed Antarctic continental ice mass increasing with declining snow fall for decades, and melt area limited to ~ 2 % of coastal Antarctica.

In the Western Mediterranean, where human societies colonized and occupied the coastal areas since the Ancient times, the variability of storm activity for the past three millennia was investigated with a multi-proxy sedimentological and geochemical study from a lagoonal sequence.

The only comprehensive study of the Antarctic Ice Sheet mass was a 10 + year study based on continuous 24/365 satellite measurements over the period 1993 to 2003, covering 80 % of the AIS with estimates from other methods for the remaining 20 %, which can not be measured by satellites (coastal areas and polar regions).

One criticism is that the study does adjust for the rising value and increased building along coastal areas so that the apparent increase in damages over time are biased upward.

Hanawa et al 2000 studies 9 coastal SST in Japan, four of which are largely coincident in area.

The US CLIVAR PSMI Panel seeks new panelists with prior expertise in field / process studies or model development in one or more of the following areas: (a) clouds, (b) high - frequency ocean - atmosphere interaction (diurnal to sub-seasonal), (c) coastal ocean processes, (d) high - latitude processes (i.e., Arctic, Antarctic, ocean - ice interactions), or (e) ocean biogeochemical cycles / ecosystem interactions.

A new study by the Wind Energy and Solar Energy Resources Evaluation Centre, run by China's Meteorological Administration, put the near - shore wind resource at 200 GW, at depths of 2 — 25 meters, which are ideal for in - shore and inter-tidal wind farms, the latter being in coastal areas that are submerged during flood tides but exposed during ebb tides.

This activity report showcases a set of case studies that present the work of a wide range of financed and supported projects that make a case for further investment in marine protected areas to restore the health of oceanic and coastal ecosystems, strengthen resilience in the face of climate change, sustain fisheries and other economic activities, and improve the lives of the world's poorest communities.

A study found that of the 3,300 tons of carbon per hectare stored in Indonesia's coastal peatland areas, up to half would be released into the atmosphere over the 100 years following conversion to oil palm plantations — the equivalent of 2,800 years» worth of accumulated carbon.

The outputs are presented in four core documents: an analysis of coastal dynamics and climate variability, a study on the vulnerability of coastal areas, an evaluation of the impacts of climate change and an exploration of how all these factors can be brought together in an assessment of the risks of the impacts of climate change on the region's coastal areas.

In a study recently published in Climatic Change, we delineated low - lying coastal areas of the conterminous USA that may confront impacts from rising sea levels.

A recent study on the North Pacific circulation patterns over the past 1.2 million years determined that sea ice on coastal areas can be an important factor in ocean circulation, therefore influencing climate at global and regional levels.