Sentences with phrase «in land elevations»

A series of damaging earthquakes and changes in land elevation preceded its only eruption, during the most recent part of the Holocene, which lasted from September 29 to October 6, 1538, when it was formed.

The data used in the study included more than 455,000 independent estimates of changes in the land elevation of the vast ice sheets covering Antarctica, both in the western part of the continent, where ice is melting more rapidly, and in the east, where the ice is considered to be more stable, for the time being at least.

A good scientist would have issued a correction something along the lines of «I missed the fact that tidal gauges are influenced strongly by local changes in land elevation due to river silt, human activity, post-ice age rebound, and earthquakes.

Changes in land elevation may occur in response to many processes, including mountainbuilding (tectonic) processes, or flow or bending of rocks caused by ongoing or past changes in loading from ice, water or sediment (isostatic changes).

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• Catalina Island Marine Institute (CIMI) at Toyon Bay, Cherry Cove and Fox Landing • Astrocamp, located at an elevation of 5,000» in Idyllwild, California, in the mountains above Palm Springs.

Among the questions: what is working, and not working, in the Build it Back program, the mayor's reaction to a report that a family he visited in the Arverne section of Rockaway is «getting close» to losing faith in the mayor, the scope / number of people still directly affected by Sandy, whether his weekend trip to Pennsylvania involved a meeting with the consultants running the Build it Back program, whether he stands by statements he made during a September visit to Far Rockaway's St. Mary Star of the Sea, whether the Bloomberg administration allocated enough money to housing from the first tranch of federal assistance, whether he agrees with Oddo's idea of acquiring land for redevelopment, the role of Michael DeLoach in Build it Back, whether New Yorkers should be concerned that they may lose desirable options under Build it Back after de Blasio completes his review and issues on elevation of existing structures v. new construction.

Published this week in Nature Climate Change, the initial study finds that embankments constructed since the 1960s are primarily to blame for lower land elevations along the Ganges - Brahmaputra River Delta, with some areas experiencing more than twice the rate of the most worrisome sea - level rise projections from the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The image on the left shows eolian (lower) and runup bedding (upper) exposed in a roadcut on Old Land Road on Great Exuma Island (road elevation +23 meters).

As a result, avian temperature responses generally involve moving up or down in elevation rather than stretching or shrinking their ranges over land.

Further observations will be used to refine the global map, to construct local and regional digital elevation models for scientific analysis and aid in assessment of future landing sites, and to attempt to detect and characterize global - scale seasonal variations.

China's national protected area system has expanded greatly in recent years, but the areas are typically remote, at higher elevations and ineffectively managed, while sacred forests are closer to centers of human land use, at lower - elevations and managed effectively at the community level.

Because the vast plateau at such altitudes absorbs a huge amount of solar radiation, the atmospheric layer above it in summer is much warmer than air at similar elevations over lower land or the oceans.

The P - 3 Orion, based at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, will carry IceBridge's most comprehensive instrument suite: a scanning laser altimeter that measures surface elevation, three types of radar systems to study ice layers and the bedrock underneath the ice sheet, a high - resolution camera to create color maps of polar ice, and infrared cameras to measure surface temperatures of sea and land ice.

Here are some satellite tracks, from NASA's ICESat (Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite), revealing areas of dynamic thinning (red) in Antarctica and Greenland [click to enlarge].

ASTER data is used to create detailed maps of land surface temperature, reflectance, and elevation.ASTER captures high spatial resolution data in 14 bands, from the visible to the thermal infrared wavelengths, and provides stereo viewing capability for digital elevation model creation.

In Colorado here at this elevation Turbos and their forced induction rule the land.

This extraordinary design features breathtaking elevation changes and expansive landing areas that meander through some of the most picturesque terrain in the Northland.»

Hiking takes place within The Central Forest Reserve National Park, which includes all land on St. Kitts above 1000 - feet in elevation.

The climate can range from coast side lands drenched with fog in mild winters and summers to inland reaches baked by hot sunshine on long summer days, which, at higher elevations, can be blanketed with snow in winter.

It is common to abundant in shrub lands, grasslands, and in early several stages of most habitats statewide (except at some high elevations, although lower than 1600 feet).

Belize has a varied geography, with rolling hills and higher elevations in the southwest and west to lush agricultural flat lands in the north and southeast.

In fact, the wild lands and river encompass only about 25,000 acres, only a fraction the size of higher elevation designated wilderness areas in the regioIn fact, the wild lands and river encompass only about 25,000 acres, only a fraction the size of higher elevation designated wilderness areas in the regioin the region.

However, it's not just the absolute rise in sea level but the accompanying storm surges that would occur with any rise and the resultant flooding of all unprotected low lying lands, which are at higher elevations than the absolute rise.

In 2003, NASA launched the Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat), using laser altimetry to more accurately measure changes in the Earth's surface elevatioIn 2003, NASA launched the Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat), using laser altimetry to more accurately measure changes in the Earth's surface eElevation Satellite (ICESat), using laser altimetry to more accurately measure changes in the Earth's surface elevatioin the Earth's surface elevationelevation.

Exploring data - related uncertainties in analyses of land area and population in the «Low - Elevation Coastal Zone» (LECZ)

The paper spotlighted the need to «model the propagation of noise and light pollution from sources in energy developments, and identify the landscape characteristics (e.g., topography, elevation, and land cover) that may affect these sources of disturbance.»

Repeated annual measurements of key glaciers maintains a long - term record of change in the Antarctic that goes back to NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) which stopped collecting data in 2009.

As far as I can determine in a cursory read, the satellite data measures land surface elevation, ie, tectonic rebound.

Recent land elevation changes via the CryoSat - 2 satellite, showing the greatest amount of sinking land in West Antarctica.

Although the study did not find a significant change in the elevation of the interior East Antarctic Ice Sheet, it shows for the first time that the thinning of the Totten glacier in that region extends to the point where the ice meets the land surface below, known as the grounding line.

A liquid - expansion or platinum - resistance thermometer placed in the atmosphere at elevation 2m (for example) above ocean or land surface measures: — molecular kinetic energy (molecular translational energy, heat) plus — LWR energy plus — molecular vibrational energy of the GHGs (primarily H2O in the gaseous form) because LWR energy and molecular vibrational energy of the GHGs are transmuted to molecular kinetic energy (molecular translational energy, heat) upon impacting upon the molecules of the solid and I understand that there is no transverse electromagnetic radiation inside a solid.

Where modelled consequences clearly don't match observations the differences can be used to explore what's missing or not quite right — perhaps the modelled elevation of land in certain areas is not quite right, causing a difference in the flow of wind currents, or maybe the grid resolution of the model is too coarse for certain features to properly resolve.

The most likely candidate for that climatic variable force that comes to mind is solar variability (because I can think of no other force that can change or reverse in a different trend often enough, and quick enough to account for the historical climatic record) and the primary and secondary effects associated with this solar variability which I feel are a significant player in glacial / inter-glacial cycles, counter climatic trends when taken into consideration with these factors which are, land / ocean arrangements, mean land elevation, mean magnetic field strength of the earth (magnetic excursions), the mean state of the climate (average global temperature), the initial state of the earth's climate (how close to interglacial - glacial threshold condition it is) the state of random terrestrial (violent volcanic eruption, or a random atmospheric circulation / oceanic pattern that feeds upon itself possibly) / extra terrestrial events (super-nova in vicinity of earth or a random impact) along with Milankovitch Cycles.

In addition, compaction following removal of groundwater or fossil fuels, or possibly inflation from injection of fluids, may change land elevation (e.g., Bindoff et al., 2007; Sella et al., 2007).

With respect to Church et al 2008, you're neglecting to mention (or perhaps didn't read enough of the paper to notice) is that, unlike you're «eyeballing» method, they actually adjusted tidal gauges for changes in local land elevation before drawing any conclusions from unadjusted data.

Scientific confidence of the occurrence of climate change include, for example, that over at least the last 50 years there have been increases in the atmospheric concentration of CO2; increased nitrogen and soot (black carbon) deposition; changes in the surface heat and moisture fluxes over land; increases in lower tropospheric and upper ocean temperatures and ocean heat content; the elevation of sea level; and a large decrease in summer Arctic sea ice coverage and a modest increase in Antarctic sea ice coverage.

High elevation land (2500 feet and higher) is a scarce resource in the Northeast and is limited to approximately 3 % of Vermont's total land area.

According to that report, although a sea level rise of 1.6 feet or more would negatively affect large portions of the City, the «worst - case scenario» for sea level rise projects a 1.6 foot increase to be reached in 2047 assuming no mitigation or adaptation efforts... Furthermore, even assuming a 2 - foot sea level rise, only 0.1 square miles of land in the City that isn't potentially protected by levees or other flood control structures is below two feet of elevation.»

Elevations in Browns Canyon National Monument range from 7,300 to 10,000 feet, making this a unique mid-elevation area of public land.

In total, 180 coastal municipalities in the conterminous U.S.A. with populations over 50,000 have an average of 36 % of their land area at or below 6 meters of elevation and connected to the seIn total, 180 coastal municipalities in the conterminous U.S.A. with populations over 50,000 have an average of 36 % of their land area at or below 6 meters of elevation and connected to the sein the conterminous U.S.A. with populations over 50,000 have an average of 36 % of their land area at or below 6 meters of elevation and connected to the sea.

We calculated the population in the flood plain based on the distribution of coastal population per 1 m elevation increment (Table 2) assuming that all land below the computed surge heights belongs to the 100 - year flood plain.

A guard must be provided that is not less than 920 mm, measured vertically to the top of the guard from a line drawn through the outside edges of the stair nosings and 1,070 mm around the landings, is required on each side of a stairway where the difference in elevation between ground level and the top step is more than 600 mm but, where there is a wall, a guard is not required on that side

If your home has been built in a flood plain or low lands, that means the area is particularly vulnerable to flooding and you may end - up paying a higher premium for flood insurance coverage than those whose homes are on a higher elevation.

Flood plain maps show every locale in Massachusetts and list flood plain areas for 10 - year, 30 - year, 50 - year, and 100 - year periods based on the land and slope elevation, as well as your proximity to sources of water.

Flood plain maps reveal all the locations in Massachusetts that are at risk for flooding, taking into account the elevation, slope of the land and proximity to water sources.

To acquire a survey assistant position and assist senior surveyors in measuring the dimensions and boundaries of assigned land and determine the shape, elevation, and position of the place.