Sentences with phrase «future coastal sea level»

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.

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

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«We have a moral obligation to our children and future generations to reduce the severe impacts of climate change like rising sea levels, which will disproportionately impact coastal communities in Massachusetts,» said EPA Administrator McCarthy.

Rising sea levels caused by a warming climate threaten greater future storm damage to New York City, but the paths of stronger future storms may shift offshore, changing the coastal risk for the city, according to a team of climate scientists.

«In order to understand coastal impacts under current and future climate and socio - economic conditions, we do not only need robust projections of mean sea level rise but also a profound knowledge of present - day and future extreme sea levels, because these events drive the impacts,» Wahl said.

If sea - level rise remains small, then changes in storm surge are the most important concern for future coastal risk to New York City.

Improving projections for how much ocean levels may change in the future and what that means for coastal communities has vexed researchers studying sea level rise for years, but a new international study that incorporates extreme events may have just given researchers and coastal planners what they need.

In addition to permanently submerging coastal land, sea - level rise will make the flood damage from hurricanes and nor'easter s worse in the future, he said.

The low - lying island nation offers the scientists a unique opportunity to reconstruct climate conditions during previous periods of varying sea levels to help scientists better understand how future climate change will the effect the 1,000 km - long archipelago and low - lying coastal areas all around the world.

For the study «Doubling of coastal erosion under rising sea level by mid-century in Hawaiʻi,» published this week in Natural Hazards, the research team developed a simple model to assess future erosion hazards under higher sea levels — taking into account historical changes of Hawaiʻi shorelines and the projected acceleration of sea level rise reported from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Both Kelly and Chinowsky said coastal communities are significantly vulnerable to storm surge, rising sea levels and future storms — challenging geographic conditions augmented by their exposure to hurricanes and often sinking sediment beneath a city's foundation.

The estimation of changes due to sea level rise (SLR) and climate change is a major issue with respect to future coastal management decisions.

The results show that human - caused sea level rise is not just a future problem, it is driving most coastal flooding in the U.S. today.

The findings have important implications in terms of planning for sea level rise, as ever - growing coastal communities might have to plan for even higher ocean levels in a warmer future.

To compensate partially for my participation in the hijacking of this thread, I point to how Rhode Island's coastal zone management (CZM) agency, the RI Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) is addressing current and future sea - level rise (SLR).

These results show that human - caused sea level rise is not just a future problem, it is driving most coastal flooding in the U.S. today.

probabilistically projecting future changes in sea levels and their implications for changing coastal flood risk, and translating those projected changes into actionable information for coastal adaptation; and

«With BAU (Business As Usual) humanity faces a very abrupt future of misery; including rapid 5 to 9 meter sea level rise taking out coastal cities around the planet.

Future coastal population growth and exposure to sea - level rise and coastal flooding — A global assessment.

For example, if climatologists and oceanographers only considered sea level rise to predict coastal damages without regard to escalating rates of beach - front home building, they would be as errant as would a coastal developer who assesses future risks based only on current climate and sea levels (and Professor Pielke has led the charge on such integrated approaches).

The overall effect from the ancillary coastal changes is to take the damage estimates and number of people affected by a future sea level rise scenario and multiply it by ten.

The section on past and future tempestuous conditions centers on geological evidence from the Bahamas and Bermuda, particularly big boulders lodged well above sea level on Eleuthera and current - carved seabed and coastal features, called chevrons, denoting powerful oceanic dynamics.

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.

New Jersey is seemingly trying to rebuild its shoreline communities as fast as possible with little thought for the future, politicians in North Carolina have essentially told coastal planners not to take future sea level rise into account, and some places would like to resist or adapt but lack the resources to do so.

However, in order to understand coastal impacts under current and future climate and socio - economic conditions, not only robust SLR projections are required but also a profound knowledge of the drivers and occurrence of present - day and future extreme sea levels (ESL), as ESL drive the impacts (Bindoff et al 2007).

Although past anthropogenic emissions already have caused sea - level commitment that will force coastal cities to adapt, future emissions will determine which areas we can continue to occupy or may have to abandon.

Future sea levels committed under each of the emissions and Antarctic scenarios considered present serious implications for US coastal regions.

Here we develop relationships between cumulative carbon emissions and long - term sea - level commitment and explore implications for the future of coastal developments in the United States.

That is arguably the most serious threat to future food supplies, and yet in climate coverage more attention is paid to sea level rise, heat waves, and coastal disruption from hurricanes and superstorms.

The Plan, led by San Francisco Planning and San Francisco Public Works, defines an overarching vision and set of objectives for future sea level rise and coastal flooding planning and mitigation in San Francisco.

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What's more, sea levels are rising, elevating storm surge and increasing the amount of coastal flooding — and the amount of electricity infrastructure at risk — when future storms arrive.

Sea level rise is not just a concern for the future, it is already heightening coastal flood risks worldwide.

In the future, high - end estimates of ice discharge and regional effects, such as local thermal expansion and coastal subsidence, place the upper limits of relative sea - level rise for the Netherlands at 0.65 to 1.3 m by 2100, excluding gravitational effects.

The authors observe that wide variations in rates of tectonic uplift and subsidence in different locations around the world at particular times mean no effective coastal management plan can rest upon speculative computer projections regarding an idealised future global sea level, such as those provided by the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

«If we cause large sea - level rise, that dominates future risks, but if we could prevent sea - level rise and just have the storm surge to worry about, our projections show little change in coastal risk from today during most years,» said Michael Mann, distinguished professor of meteorology and atmospheric science and director of Penn State's Earth System Science Centre, and one of the authors.

«In the case of sea level, society might want to know what is science's best guess for the future rise, but for any practical purposes of coastal protection it is the worst case that is relevant.

The island nation's future is under threat from anticipated global sea level rise, with many of its islands already suffering from coastal erosion.

Reinstate federal flood - protection standards that require all federally funded infrastructure projects to meet a higher margin of safety for future sea - level rise and flooding from coastal storms and extreme weather events.