Sentences with phrase «for global sea»

1) Abstract «Such changes could have significant ramifications for global sea level, the ocean thermohaline circulation, native coastal communities, and commercial activities, as well as effects on the global surface energy and moisture budgets, atmospheric and oceanic circulations, and geosphere - biosphere feedbacks.

Such Arctic changes «could have significant ramifications for global sea level, the ocean thermohaline circulation and heat budget, ecosystems, native communities, natural resource exploration, and commercial transportation.»

Update for Global Sea Ice Area spiral for Jan 31 2017.

David Holland and Denise Holland, Center for Global Sea - Level Change, New York University, Abu Dhabi, UAE; email: [email protected]

The ice sheet is the focus of scientific research because its fate has huge implications for global sea levels, which are already rising as ice sheets melt and the ocean warms, exposing coastal locations to greater damage from storm surge - related flooding.

-- The Director of the National Science Foundation and the Administrator of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shall enter into an arrangement with the National Academy of Sciences to complete a study of the current status of ice sheet melt, as caused by climate change, with implications for global sea level rise.

With the oceans warming up, it's no surprise that 2014 was also a record year for global sea levels.

Requires the Director of the National Science Foundation and the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to enter into an arrangements with NAS to study: (1) the current status of ice sheet melt, as caused by climate change, with implications for global sea level rise; and (2) the current state of the science on the potential impacts of climate change on patterns of hurricane and typhoon development and the implications for hurricane - prone and typhoon - prone coastal regions.

Projections for global sea level rise for the period 2090 - 2099 range from 0.18 to 0.59 m, across all emissions scenarios.

Wrong units for «Projections for global sea level rise for the period 2090 - 2099 range from 0.18 to 0.59 cm, across all emissions scenarios.»?

These changes will have dramatic consequences for global sea level rise and are likely to have negative impacts on Antarctic ecosystems and species.

These climate - related land storage effects could be significant for global sea - levels, though unfortunately there seem to be very few direct experimental measurements of the factors involved, and so the only studies of these effects seem to have been from computer modelling of data from weather data «reanalysis» models (e.g., ERA - 40).

Projections for global sea level rise by 2100 range from 8 inches to 6.6 feet above 1992 levels, though the lowest end of this range is a simple extension of historic sea level rise — and recent data indicate this rate has nearly doubled in recent years.

However, careful selection of tide gauge sites such that records reflecting major tectonic activity are rejected, and averaging over all selected gauges, results in a small uncertainty for global sea level estimates (Appendix 5.

Even at that maximum rate it would take 238 years for the global sea levels to increase by 1m.

When this model is run with a standard, idealised global warming scenario you get the following result for global sea surface temperature changes.

That's bad news for global sea levels as well as would - be ice dwellers.

It could lead to a massive increase in the rate of ice sheet melt, with direct consequences for global sea level rise.»

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It will be interesting to see whether, in 2018, Chinese crocodiles» newfound success in navigating the high seas of the global economy will create new pressures for China to open the Yangtze to a few more foreign sharks.

To get a better sense of what the program was like, we reached out to Unreasonable at Sea mentor Cathy Rodgers, who is also the vice president of global opportunities for IBM.

MIT Enterprise Forum Thailand and Global Social Venture Competition — Southeast Asia both held the regional finals for their startup competitions, with 12 finalist teams from GSVC - SEA and 10 finalists from MIT Enterprise Forum.

We have much better — and more conclusive — evidence for climate change from more boring sources like global temperature averages, or the extent of global sea ice, or thousands of years» worth of C02 levels stored frozen in ice cores.

Press Release — MIAMI, Florida — September 26, 2017 — Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd., a leading global cruise company which operates the Norwegian Cruise Line, Oceania Cruises and Regent Seven Seas Cruises brands, today announced a partnership with All Hands Volunteers, the world's leading disaster relief organization powered by volunteers, and set a goal to raise $ 2.5 million for the Hope Starts Here hurricane relief program.

For years now pipeline advocates have argued that getting cheap bitumen or heavy oil to eastern refineries would be highly profitable due to the price difference between West Texas Intermediate, the North American benchmark and North Sea Brent, the global benchmark for oFor years now pipeline advocates have argued that getting cheap bitumen or heavy oil to eastern refineries would be highly profitable due to the price difference between West Texas Intermediate, the North American benchmark and North Sea Brent, the global benchmark for ofor oil.

He is also a commissioner for the Global Ocean Commission, whose mandate is to formulate politically and technically feasible short -, medium - and long - term recommendations to address four key issues facing the high seas: overfishing, large - scale loss of habitat and biodiversity, the lack of effective management and enforcement, and deficiencies in high seas governance.

Early geologists KNEW that the fossils were created by a Global flood that is the only logical explanation for Sea shells found all over the world even on mountaintops.

*** geologists KNEW that the fossils were created by a Global flood that is the only logical explanation for Sea shells found all over the world even on mountaintops.

The first expression of the quest for global hegemony is to secure Near Eastern oil, especially around the Caspian Sea and in Iraq.

These stories may or may not have been based on an event, such as the breach of the land barrier that kept the Black Sea below the level of the Mediterranean Sea or even the flooding of the north end of the Red Sea, but there is no evidence for a global flood.

Following recommendations offered by CoopeTarrazú agronomists, Araya also prepared for a roya (coffee - leaf rust) attack, which has begun to affect once - immune altitude regions like Tarrazú — her farm is located at 5,250 f. (1,600 m) above sea level — due to global warming.

Bay Area television show, Leslie Sbrocco; Legal Sea Foods VP of Beverages, Sandy Block; Global Beverage Buyer of Whole Foods, Doug Bell; Tuthilltown Spirits Founder, Ralph Erenzo; Founder and CEO of Virtue Cider, Gregory Hall; author and Partner at EatBigFish, Mark Barden; President for Nielsen CGA, Jon Collins; Founder and CEO of Demeter Group, Jeff Menashe; Founder and Partner of Hinman and Carmichael Law Group, John Hinman; Executive Director of the California Craft Brewers Association, Tom McCormick; President & CEO of Pavone Marketing Group, Michael Pavone; President of Bevology, Steve Raye, and many more industry experts all prepared to share their knowledge.

Chicken of the Sea ® Yellowfin Tuna Slices was created by Thai Union's Global Innovation Incubator, partly in response to the FDA's Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2015 - 2020 which recommends Americans increase their seafood consumption to a minimum of two servings per week.

Chicken of the Sea ® Yellowfin Tuna Slices was created by Thai Union's Global Innovation Incubator, partly in response to the FDA's Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2015 - 2020

The following third party certification schemes are recognised for farmed fish: Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC), Global Gap, Global Aquaculture Alliance Best Aquaculture Practice (GAABAP), Friend of the sea (FOS), Soil Association Organic and Naturland Organic.

Each policy commission was asked for priorities, and I was disturbed that Britain's Global Role included «maintaining the UK's minimum, independent, credible nuclear deterrent through a continuous at - sea deterrent».

The chocolate box city on the sea most famous for having canals instead of roads was once a global power.

According to the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS), an NSF Science and Technology Center led by the University of Kansas, the melt from Greenland's ice sheet contributes to global sea level rise at a rate of 0.52 millimeters annually.

He is the principal investigator for a mission called Oceans Melting Greenland (affectionately known as OMG), a five - year effort to assess the extent to which warmer oceans are melting Greenland's glaciers, and how this information can be used to better estimate global sea level rise.

Oceanography postgraduates, for example, might study how coastal dynamics affect amphibious warfare, or how decreasing polar sea ice might influence global climate patterns.

A Florida Republican calls for action to address rising sea levels as a result of global warming

GREENLAND lost 1500 cubic kilometres of ice between 2000 and 2008, making it responsible for one - sixth of global sea - level rise.

ONE nation's thirst for groundwater is having an impact on global sea levels.

Scientists working to improve storm intensity forecasting have identified a more accurate means of predicting a hurricane's strength as it approaches landfall, using sea temperature readings that they say will help forecasters better prepare communities for storm impacts in the face of sea - level rise caused by rising global temperatures.

Island nations threatened by sea level rise, such as the Marshall Islands in the western Pacific, have for years urged the IMO to push for a 100 percent emissions reduction by 2050 as the only strategy consistent with the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius relative to pre-industrial levels.

Scientists from Rice University and Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi's Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies have discovered that Earth's sea level did not rise steadily but rather in sharp, punctuated bursts when the planet's glaciers melted during the period of global warming at the close of the last ice age.

For example, as global CO2 levels rise, increases in the acidity of the ocean are expected to have dramatic impacts on sea life.

«If our results are representative, then sea ice plays a greater role than expected, and we should take this into account in future global CO2 budgets,» says Dorte Haubjerg Søgaard, PhD Fellow, Nordic Center for Earth Evolution, University of Southern Denmark and the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Nuuk.

(Reuters)- Almost 200 nations began global climate talks on Monday with time running out to save the Kyoto Protocol aimed at cutting the greenhouse gas emissions scientists blame for rising sea levels, intense storms, drought and crop failures.

Because GABA is so ubiquitous, Munday fears that ocean acidification could cause sensory and behavioral problems for many sea creatures if global CO2 levels continue to rise.

Lothar Stramma, a physical oceanographer at the Christian Albrechts University of Kiel in Germany and his associates describe the hypoxic problem as global in a paper accepted for publication in Deep - Sea Research, stating that tropical low - oxygen zones have expanded horizontally and vertically around the world, and that subsurface oxygen has decreased adjacent to most continental shelves.