Sentences with phrase «in sea level research»

Now Josh is pursuing one of the main topics in sea level research: the interactions between Greenland's marine - terminating glaciers and the surrounding ocean.

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Research group Climate Central has created a plug - in for Google Earth that illustrates how catastrophic an «extreme» sea - level rise scenario would be if the flooding happened now, based on projections in a 2017 report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA).

The iconic cone - like structure of Mount Etna could have been created after water levels in the Mediterranean Sea rose following an extended period of deglaciation, according to new research.

In this study, the research team excavated intertidal beach sediments on the shoreline of Calvert Island, British Columbia, where the sea level was two to three meters lower than it is today at the end of the last ice age.

Dan Kahan of Yale Law School shared findings from his research on communicating the severity of climate change and sea - level rise in southeast Florida.

Kopp is also a co-author of another study, led by Tufts University researcher Klaus Bittermann and published today in Environmental Research Letters, assessing the sea - level rise benefits of achieving the Paris Agreement's more ambitious 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) temperature target rather than its headline 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) target.

They looked at hourly observations of sea level between 1948 and 2008, which confirmed that the number of extreme tides followed peaks in the solar cycle (Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, DOI: 10.1029 / 2009JD013114).

In addition to the main laboratory north of Zurich, PSI collaborates with an international high - altitude research station at Jungfraujoch, 3580 metres above sea level.

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.

The research Sweet conducted suggests that, from Atlantic City south, the type of storm surge that would have been a once - in - a-century event in 1950 is likely to occur every couple decades by 2100, because of sea - level rise.

A study released last month in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres used three different models to run the same SSCE scenario in which sea - salt engineering was used in the low - latitude oceans to keep top - of - atmosphere radiative forcing at the 2020 level for 50 years and was then abruptly turned off for 20 years.

Unless the seepage rate of sequestered carbon dioxide can be held to 1 percent every 1,000 years, overall temperature rise could still reach dangerous levels that cause sea level rise and ocean acidification, concludes the research published yesterday in Nature Geoscience.

The research, an analysis of sea salt sodium levels in mountain ice cores, finds that warming sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean have intensified the Aleutian Low pressure system that drives storm activity in the North Pacific.

The unusual weather and geology offer a convincing explanation for the sudden drop in sea levels, says John Church of CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research in Hobart, Tasmania.

The warming at Mt. Hunter is about double the amount of warming that has occurred during the summer at areas at sea level in Alaska over the same time period, according to the new research.

«Until recently, only West Antarctica was considered unstable, but now we know that its ten times bigger counterpart in the East might also be at risk,» says Levermann, who is head of PIK's research area Global Adaptation Strategies and a lead - author of the sea - level change chapter of the most recent scientific assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC.

John Fasullo of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, noticed something amiss while looking at trends in global sea levels.

New research from scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and the Hawaiʻi Department of Land and Natural Resources brings into clearer focus just how dramatically Hawaiʻi beaches might change as sea level rises in the future.

Sea - level rise and coral bleaching often dominate discussions about how climate change affects the ocean, but a host of more subtle — and harder to research — trends also play a role in reshaping the world's marine ecosystems.

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).

Sandy hit New York as a team led by Kemp was researching sea - level change and flooding that had occurred in seven historically damaging hurricanes in New York since 1788.

The centre runs research programmes in climate variability and change, the monitoring of sea levels, ocean uptake of carbon dioxide, and Antarctic marine ecosystems.

The Australian government recently invested nearly $ 500 million in climate change research, including $ 126 million specifically earmarked to identify the best strategies for adaptation to hotter days, storm surges, drought, and rising sea levels.

Uncertainty about rain, little uncertainty about sea level rise Climate change could also affect precipitation in California, though the two models USGS used in its research produced different results.

A new study in Geophysical Research Letters uses historical climate model simulations to demonstrate that there has been an Arctic - wide decrease in sea level pressure since the 1800's.

In the last few decades, glaciers at the edge of the icy continent of Antarctica have been thinning, and research has shown the rate of thinning has accelerated and contributed significantly to sea level rise.

Science also tells us things that are hard to hear and that we don't know how to fix: Climate change is melting glaciers, raising sea levels and, new research shows, even affecting the ecosystems in our beloved lakes.

New research shows projected changes in the winds circling the Antarctic may accelerate global sea level rise significantly more than previously estimated.

The new research demonstrates that the pair is indeed the fundamental unit of monk parakeet social structure, but additional tiers of social structure, akin to social levels documented in elephants, sea lions, and dolphins, may also be present.

The research may help to explain a number of sudden and unexplained increases in global sea levels that occurred in the geological past.

«As an archaeologist who studies Arctic and Subarctic coastal peoples, erosion associated with intense storm activity, loss of permafrost, rising sea levels, and increasing human activity is devastating to comprehend; however, this study not only documents those processes, but provides a means to examine their highly variable impacts that, hopefully, can lead to constructive ways to prioritize research and mitigate destructive processes in this extremely important region.»

Mud cores pulled from marshes in the city show that the sea level is already rising faster there than at any time in the past 1,500 years, according to research published in the Holocene Journal in January.

Described in a research paper published in the journal «Geophysical Research Letters», the «smoke rings» were discovered by analysing sea level measurements taken from satellites together with sea surface temperature images from the same time anresearch paper published in the journal «Geophysical Research Letters», the «smoke rings» were discovered by analysing sea level measurements taken from satellites together with sea surface temperature images from the same time anResearch Letters», the «smoke rings» were discovered by analysing sea level measurements taken from satellites together with sea surface temperature images from the same time and place.

It is obvious for an alpine town such as Innsbruck to do alpine research, and the Institute of Zoology and Limnology runs a highly equipped research station in the Tyrolean Alps, situated at 2400 meters above sea level.

Researchers of the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, the Goethe University in Frankfurt and the University of Toronto have now detected evidence of this oceanographic event and an earlier sudden sea - level rise in the fossils of tiny calcifying marine algae preserved in seafloor sediments in the Aegean Ssea - level rise in the fossils of tiny calcifying marine algae preserved in seafloor sediments in the Aegean SeaSea.

About half the drop in sea level during the 18 - month period in question could be ascribed to unusually high rainfall in Australia, the researchers will report in a forthcoming issue of Geophysical Research Letters.

A team headed by R. Steven Nerem of the Center for Space Research at the University of Texas at Austin recently concluded that the ENSO induced changes in sea level are not confined to the Pacific but effect sea level on a global basis.

Sea - level rise will affect poor and wealthy residents in California and around the world, said Katharine Mach, senior research scientist at Stanford University.

«You can get crazy rates of sea - level rise,» says James Syvitski, a geologist at the University of Colorado Boulder and a co-author of the study, published online in Geophysical Research Letters.

If the trend continues, ice sheets could become the dominant contributor to sea level rise sooner than scientists had predicted, concludes the research, which will be published this month in the journal Geophysical Research research, which will be published this month in the journal Geophysical Research Research Letters.

A University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science - led research team analyzed the sediments of mesophotic coral reefs, deep reef communities living 30 - 150 meters below sea level, to understand how habitat diversity at these deeper depths may be recorded in the sedimentary record.

For mid-latitude coasts that border subduction zones, sequences of buried soils may provide a long - duration, subsidence stratigraphic paleoseismic record that spans to the present, but in other settings such as the Aceh coastal plain, joint research approaches, for example targeted foraminiferal analyses and palynology, are required to both exploit the changing form of the relative sea - level curve and characterize coastal evolution in the context of the diminishing importance of accommodation space.

Future research will focus on refining the results in this study with longer time series, and extending the results to regional sea level, so they can better predict what will happen in your backyard.

«Our primary question is how the Amundsen Sea sector of West Antarctica will contribute to sea level rise in the future, particularly following our observations of massive changes in the area over the last two decades,» said UCI's Bernd Scheuchl, lead author on the first of the two studies, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters in AuguSea sector of West Antarctica will contribute to sea level rise in the future, particularly following our observations of massive changes in the area over the last two decades,» said UCI's Bernd Scheuchl, lead author on the first of the two studies, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters in Augusea level rise in the future, particularly following our observations of massive changes in the area over the last two decades,» said UCI's Bernd Scheuchl, lead author on the first of the two studies, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters in August.

This sea level rise estimate is larger than that provided by the last IPCC report, but highlights the need for further research on ice sheet variablity and ice sheet response to climate change, both now and in the past.

In permanently installed benthocosms, a research group investigates responses of bottom - dwelling communities of the Baltic and North Sea when exposed to future temperature and carbon dioxide levels.

Current changes in the ocean around Antarctica are disturbingly close to conditions 14,000 years ago that new research shows may have led to the rapid melting of Antarctic ice and an abrupt 3 - 4 metre rise in global sea level.

New research published this week in the Journal of Climate reveals that one key measurement — large - scale upper - ocean temperature changes caused by natural cycles of the ocean — is a good indicator of regional coastal sea level changes on these decadal timescales.

In Israel, David will be researching the evolution, age, and past sea level history of submerged fossil terraces in the Gulf of Aqaba, which form the basis for the Israel's critical modern mesophotic coral reef ecosystemIn Israel, David will be researching the evolution, age, and past sea level history of submerged fossil terraces in the Gulf of Aqaba, which form the basis for the Israel's critical modern mesophotic coral reef ecosystemin the Gulf of Aqaba, which form the basis for the Israel's critical modern mesophotic coral reef ecosystems.

Professor Kopp's research focuses on understanding uncertainty in past and future climate change, with major emphases on sea - level change and on the interactions between physical climate change and the economy.