Sentences with phrase «fresh submarine groundwater»

If fresh submarine groundwater discharge approaches just 7 % of the total SGD, it would not only balance current groundwater recharge, but would steadily raise sea level by an additional 2 mm / year, even if there was no ocean warming and no melting glaciers.

Moosdorf (2017) has reviewed the locations and many human uses of fresh submarine groundwater discharge around the world.

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Groundwater that seeps into the coastal zone beneath the ocean's surface — termed submarine groundwater discharge (SGD)-- is an important source of fresh water and nutrients to nearshore coral reefs throughout the globe.

However, with improving techniques, researchers recently estimated total submarine groundwater (saline and fresh water combined) discharges suggesting a rate 3 to 4 times greater than the observed global river runoff, or a volume equivalent to 331 mm / year (13 inches) of sea level rise.