Sentences with phrase «coastal sea level»

A new study helps clarify how past and future coastal sea level changes are related to local winds and large - scale ocean circulation.

However, coastal sea level variability observed by tide gauges over the last few decades has been driven almost entirely by local winds.

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.

The study first evaluated the CESM - LENS» representation of 1920 - 2010 coastal sea level with a novel fully - Bayesian reconstruction of 20th century tide gauge data, finding good model - data agreement along the northeast US coast.

The clearest signals from El Niño on coastal sea levels were found along the West Coast; the find wasn't surprising given that El Niño is a Pacific - based phenomenon.

Rapid changes in coastal sea level.

«Extreme coastal sea levels more likely to occur, new data, advanced modeling techniques suggest.»

Professor Ed Hill, Executive Director of the National Oceanography Centre commented, «We trust that these findings will help inform coastal sea level adaptation and mitigation strategies.

New research published this week in the Journal of Climate reveals that one key measurement — large - scale upper - ocean temperature changes caused by natural cycles of the ocean — is a good indicator of regional coastal sea level changes on these decadal timescales.

Both the questions and the data need urgent attention in order to better identify the factors and mechanisms that determine the location, intensity, and frequency of various climate extremes including droughts, floods, heavy precipitation events, heat waves, cold spells, tropical and extratropical storms, coastal sea level surges and ocean waves.

A new study, published in Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, helps clarify how past and future coastal sea level changes are related to local winds and large - scale ocean circulation.

The results also highlight coastal regions that are well - represented in current generation climate models (and those that are not) and the time periods over which coastal sea level may be used as a proxy for the large - scale ocean circulation.

Finally NOAA 2016 updated coastal sea level rise tide gauge data shows no acceleration in sea level rise along the California coastline or anywhere else despite false claims by the UN IPCC that man made emissions have been increasing rates of sea level rise since the 1970's.

Within this relatively brief two - year period, coastal sea levels north of New York City jumped by up to 128 mm.

Societal concerns about sea level rise originate from the potential impact of regional and coastal sea level change and associated changes in extremes on coastlines around the world, including potential shoreline recession, loss of coastal infrastructure, natural resources and biodiversity, and in the worst case, displacement of communities and migration of environmental refugees.

Let's hope the single issue of CO2 doesn't obscure the very serious threats that do more than just promise to rise coastal sea levels, which by the way, would be changing as they have throughout the long history of the planet anyway; a presumed future history that our technological civilization hopes to experience for some time to come.

Two articles recently published in the peer reviewed literature discuss the contribution of waves to coastal sea level rise and the roles of human and natural influences in Canada's warming climate.

The coastal sea levels along the Northeast Coast of North America show significant year - to - year fluctuations in a general upward trend.