Sentences with phrase «displaced sea water»

In summary the melting of land ice floating on the ocean will introduce a volume of water greater than that of the originally displaced sea water, hence raising the water level a little.

You've estimated out that the number of ships displacing sea water is a very large number.

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«When earthquake - induced uplift occurs on the sea floor, it displaces the entire column of water above it and generates the wave that we call a tsunami,» she adds.

Tsunamis can be generated when the sea floor abruptly deforms and vertically displaces the overlying water.

A tsunami is a series of waves generated when water in a lake or the sea is rapidly displaced on a massive scale.

Further, melt - water of the floating ice - sheets will reoccupy same volume of the displaced water by floating ice - sheets causing no sea - level rise.

A tsunami caused by an earthquake along a subduction zone happens when the leading edge of the overriding tectonic plate breaks free and springs seaward, displacing the sea floor and the water above it.

, that is utter nonsense and as wind and solar increase they will displace water and create power from hydro dams and sea wind farms into a totally clean electric infrastructure running clean electric steel forging, electric welding and electric aluminium smelting that will create these simple powerful cars for a much brighter future.

First off, the effect of melting sea ice would be close to nil, as it floats and displaces an equal amount (mass) of sea water.

The main issue is that sea ice is fresher than sea water (has less salt), and since salty water is more dense (1028 kg / m3) than fresher water (1004 kg / m3 for 5 psu), the volume of sea water displaced by the ice is slightly less than the volume of the ice if it melted.

At some temperature, we must expect sea water to penetrate the permafrost under it and displace all of the free methane currently trapped under the permafrost.

The mass of water displaced by various vessels sunk at sea is far less than the displacement of the vessels.

As to sea level rise due to displacement of mantle, because rock is denser than ice, more water must be drawn from the sea to displace the mantle than the volume of the mantle displaced.

Unlike land ice, sea ice doesn't affect sea levels because it's already displacing water.

El Ni o an irregular variation of ocean current that, from January to February, flows off the west coast of South America, carrying warm, low - salinity, nutrient - poor water to the south; does not usually extend farther than a few degrees south of the Equator, but occasionally it does penetrate beyond 12 S, displacing the relatively cold Peruvian current; usually short - lived effects, but sometimes last more than a year, raising sea - surface temperatures along the coast of Peru and in the equatorial eastern Pacific Ocean, having disastrous effects on marine life and fishing

The sheets may now flow more quickly to the sea; the new ice displaces water and raises sea levels, the way extra ice cubes raise the water level in a glass.

They should not bring much rise in the sea level, since floating ice obeys Archimedes's principle and displaces its own mass of water.

It is estimated by the IPCC that by 2050, 150 million people could become climate refugees, being displaced by sea level rise, desertification, increasing water scarcity, floods and storms.

They are interpreted as periods of cooler, ice - bearing surface waters displaced eastward from the Labrador Sea and southward from the Nordic Seas.

There is, however, a subtle but important qualification: if Artic ice should melt, the sea level will not change because the volume of water created by melting ice is equal to the volume of water that ice displaces when floating.

Saltwater from the sea is increasingly displacing underground fresh - water supplies, creating problems for farmers already facing limited water because of drought.

Icebergs themselves don't contribute to sea level rise; since they float, they're displacing as much water to begin with as they ever will.

Thirty million people in Bangladesh could be displaced by a 0.9 - meter increase in sea level, and the rising waters would most likely force the evacuation of 70 million Chinese.

John, Sea ice forming or melting will have no effect on sea level either way, as it is already in the water, the ice is already a part of the ocean's volume and including the parts above the water line it is displacing equivalent volumes to what its melt water will occuSea ice forming or melting will have no effect on sea level either way, as it is already in the water, the ice is already a part of the ocean's volume and including the parts above the water line it is displacing equivalent volumes to what its melt water will occusea level either way, as it is already in the water, the ice is already a part of the ocean's volume and including the parts above the water line it is displacing equivalent volumes to what its melt water will occupy.

The drifting ice on the ocean does not directly contribute to rising sea levels due to the volume of water it already displaced equal to its own weight.