Sentences with phrase «coastal zones around»

The final result has confused users and scientists alike and confounded the application of AR4 sea level rise scenarios to subsequent assessments of risk to coastal zones around the world for years.

There are some 3,351 cities in low lying coastal zones around the world.

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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.

In 2000, around 630 million people lived in low - lying coastal zones.

In the northern part of the zone, Atlantic influences are practically nonexistent — probably because of the relatively high elevations of the coastal region, which reach 900 to 1,800 feet around San Jorge Gulf — although cold Pacific winds from the west and the cold Falkland Current off the Atlantic coast do have some effect.

As a result, measures around Antarctica along and near the coastal zone have risen above the freezing mark on numerous occasions.

Worldwide, around 1 billion people live in low - lying coastal zones, and an estimated 180 million are at risk.