Sentences with phrase «in coastal sea»

So it would be nice for the climate models to have sufficient resolution to be able to predict the impact of changes in coastal sea ice.»

A research group led by the South Korean Pohang University has measured the effects of atmospheric and fluvial nitrogen deposition [through nitrate] in the coastal seas around China, Korea and Japan.

As both are growth - limiting nutrients in coastal seas, the nitrogen pollution may have ecological ramifications, favouring organisms that require a lot of nitrogen and little phosphorous.

Reasoning for a decrease in sea ice extent from recent years, perhaps approaching new record - low minimum, focuses on the below - normal sea ice thickness overall, the thinning of sea ice in coastal seas, rotting of old multi-year sea ice, warm temperatures in April and May 2010, and the rapid loss of sea ice area seen during May.

Reasoning for a new record minimum focuses on the below - normal ice thickness overall, the thinning of sea ice in coastal seas, rotting of old multi-year sea ice, and the rapid loss of sea ice area seen during May.

Not exact matches

Reefs provide jobs for people in fishing and tourism industries, and they also protect coastal areas from surging seas.

This would jeopardize the lives of many types of crabs, mussels, and sea snails that live in tidal zones and disrupt the diets of larger animals who rely on them for food, threatening entire coastal ecosystems in the process.

First off, yes: There's consensus that the science of climate change predicts that in a warming world, hurricanes will become more intense, carry more rain, and cause worse coastal flooding linked in part to sea level rise.

Commercial grade installations in coastal areas can pump fresh water to aquifers inland, lowering rising sea levels and alleviating drought areas.

Describe your perfect day — My perfect day would be on the beach with my fiancé John, we'd drive out the little campervan down to one of my favourite beaches in Cornwall of north Wales, go for a surf in the sea first thing then come back and make breakfast outside, then spend the day dipping in and out of water and soaking up the sun and going for long coastal walks.

There's something about warm corn tortillas, coastal sea fair, and bursts of citrus that puts you in a laid back mood.

Located midway between the Pacific Coast and California's Inland Valleys in the state's coastal mountain range, Lake County's 8,700 acres (3,520 hectares) of vineyards are 1,370 - 2,600 feet (418 - 792 meters) above sea level.

By providing a setting for the salt marsh to migrate, Rough Meadows is projected to play a key role in assisting this important coastal ecosystem threatened by sea level rise, while also providing tangible public health and safety benefits by storing flood waters and blunting storm surge in the important years ahead.

«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.

On the claim by the Minority Spokesperson on Trade and Industry that sought to suggest that there was no need for the FACTORY to have been revamped because it is located in a coastal community, Mr Kwesi Dawood thanked him for that information and responded that he will bring it to the notice of coastal dwellers whiles maintaining that the new Komenda Sugar Factory is farther away from the sea than the one built by Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah.

To set that figure we need to undertake a sea defence review, similar to the military defence review, which would set out what we actually need to do in terms of reasonable protection against coastal flooding and erosion and how much it will cost.

But the court by its judgment reinforces NLNG's position that by the provisions of the applicable laws, the company was not subject to payment to NIMASA of the three percent gross freight as well as the Sea Protection Levy and that the two percent Cabotage Levy is inapplicable because NLNG's vessels are not involved in coastal trade or cabotage.

«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.

The researcher team agreed that including extreme sea levels into coastal impact studies is imperative in helping vulnerable parts of the world effectively protect themselves by adapting through new or upgraded infrastructure such as dikes, pumping systems, barriers, or other tools like new building codes or flood zoning that prevents new infrastructure from being built in high - risk areas.

«The sea keeps on rising, and the people need to protect themselves,» Ittu told researchers who studied adaptation in response to coastal erosion in Micronesia for the Loss and Damage initiative at the U.N. University in Bonn, Germany.

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 saiIn 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 saiin the future, he said.

That study found that a 1.5 degrees Celsius world would reach a peak rate of sea - level rise about 0.7 inches per decade less than in a 2 degrees Celsius world — a potentially life - saving reduction for some vulnerable coastal ecosystems.

The new find helps shed light on the evolution of beaked whales as well as their competition: Soon after M. gregarius swam the region's seas, dolphins appeared on the scene, and their success in shallow coastal waters (where they now dominate), may have driven ziphiids to abandon foraging in surface waters.

The Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship provides a unique educational and professional experience to graduate students who have an interest in ocean, coastal and Great Lakes resources and in the national policy decisions affecting those resources.

While coral reefs make up less than 0.1 percent of the sea floor, they serve as habitats for about 25 percent to 35 percent of all the oceans» fishes, roughly 500 million people worldwide rely on them as a source of protein and for coastal protection, and they are responsible for billions of dollars in tourism and fisheries revenue.

Maine EPSCoR Assessment and Guidance On March 12th, RCP completed an assessment of the University of Maine's Sustainable Ecological Aquaculture Network (SEANET)- a statewide effort to develop a transdisciplinary understanding of how social - environmental systems (SES) interact with sustainable ecological aquaculture (SEA) in Maine's coastal communities and ecosystems.

This is an important policy area to examine now: «In an era of growing coastal populations and rising sea levels, decisions made after one disaster strongly influence our vulnerability to the next.»

Ongoing climate change affects hydrogeography, water temperatures, sea level anomalies, and salinity in coastal areas worldwide.

Chemical clues in the mangroves and algae can also tell how salty the water was, which shows whether or not El Niño was raising the local sea level and causing more seawater to seep into the coastal wetlands.

The chlorophyll - a content that represents the algae levels in coastal waters was higher than last year in both the southern areas of the Finnish Archipelago Sea and the Gulf of Finland.

Excess amounts from human activities often end up in rivers, streams and coastal environments, causing algal blooms, loss of sea grass and low oxygen levels in the water, which can kill large numbers of fish and other organisms.

Dr Svetlana Jevrejeva from the NOC, who is the lead author on this paper, said «Coastal cities and vulnerable tropical coastal ecosystems will have very little time to adapt to the fast sea level rise these predictions show, in scenarios with global warming above two degree.

«We conclude that coastal communities are facing a looming crisis due to climate change related sea - level rise, one that will manifest itself as increased frequency of Sandy - like inundation disasters in the coming decades along the mid-Atlantic and elsewhere, from storms with less intensity and lower storm surge than Sandy,» Sweet said.

A voracious warty comb jelly that infamously devastated Black Sea fisheries is now thriving in the coastal areas of the northern Adriatic.

Other areas in the Afar region are below sea level, however, and could see flooding before that if similar rifting occurs near the coastal volcanoes to the north and east that form a natural levee against the sea.

As a result, estimates of coastal vulnerability — which once focussed on sea level rise — now have to factor in changing patterns of storm erosion, more intense storms, and other coastal effects.

These environments, along with other forms of coastal ecosystems such as tidal marshes and sea grasses, have been given the name «blue carbon» to differentiate them from the «green» carbon of other forests, where carbon is absorbed above ground in trees.

Beyond sea level rise, low - elevation coastal zones in many countries face intensifying storm surges that will push sea water further inland.

It specifically dumps funding for Sea Grant, a research program that includes support for data collection and environmental monitoring — and puts that information in the hands of people who manage coastal and marine resources, including fisheries managers.

Sea - level rise has only exacerbated the effects of coastal flooding in South Florida.

Not surprisingly, Atlantic coastal communities are projected to take a toll from rising seas and strengthening hurricanes, but also much of the South and Midwest will be hurt by a decline in farming caused by rising temperatures, along with increasing energy demands to keep up with the heat.

A University of Miami study released in 2016 found that coastal flooding has accelerated; the flooding coincides with an accelerated rate of sea - level rise in South Florida.

With less than 14 inches of sea - level rise, most of the 90 U.S. coastal cities studied outside of Alaska would see a 25-fold increase in disruptive and damaging flooding by around 2080, 2060, 2040 or 2030 under the low, intermediate - low, intermediate and intermediate - high scenarios, respectively.

Major challenges in the near future include assigning clearer attribution to sea ice as a primary driver of such dynamics, especially in terrestrial systems, and addressing pressures arising from human use of arctic coastal and near - shore areas as sea ice diminishes.

According to Ittekkot, the results show that the shift in nutrients has «altered the biogeochemistry not just of the river and the adjacent coastal waters, but also of the entire Black Sea Basin.»

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).

The muddying of coastal waters by climate change could drastically increase levels of neurotoxic mercury in sea life, contaminating food supplies.

• In coastal Alaska, orcas are a prime suspect in the otherwise unexplained disappearance of 80 percent of Steller sea lions over the past three decadeIn coastal Alaska, orcas are a prime suspect in the otherwise unexplained disappearance of 80 percent of Steller sea lions over the past three decadein the otherwise unexplained disappearance of 80 percent of Steller sea lions over the past three decades.