Sentences with phrase «largest changes in tides»

On time scales of years to centuries, the largest changes in tides around the ice sheets are likely to be caused by changes in the extent and thickness of ice shelves.

Not exact matches

In January, Tides Foundation and RSF Social Finance will join forces to present Play BIG 2013, a gathering on impact investing to inspire those with large capital reserves to drive social and environmental change.

Given that most tide gauges, which heretofore are the usual means of judging sea level rise before satellite altimetry, the tide gauges with the longest history are in areas where there is a large amount of anthropogenic land and water use changes.

Tides are responsible for large changes in ocean surface height and in ocean currents that help set the rate at which ice melts.

Further, account must be made of non-eustatic dynamic changes in sea level due to tides, storm surges, tsunamis and large - scale ocean currents.