Sentences with phrase «level of the sea»

For example, despite record low levels of sea ice last summer, cool, cloudy weather kept melt somewhat in check.

That would mean huge levels of sea level rise will happen sooner — much sooner than expected.

First, the figures from 2012 showed a record high level of sea - ice cover — more than at any point since records began in 1978.

Yet were the mean level of the seas to rise or fall by half a meter, it would alter coasts, and costs, and ecosystems, throughout the world.

Thus we expect to see continuing low levels of sea ice extent.

This is true even though the doctors are so super-cautious they have thrown out some of the reports they were given that suggest we may suffer even higher levels of sea rise.

If Earth were a perfect sphere, perfectly uniform in density and covered to a uniform depth with ocean, the geoid — a word coined by geologists to refer to an imaginary plane located at the average level of the sea's surface — would be a perfect sphere as well.

Mahogany furniture, rattan chairs, locally hand - crafted clay lamps, batik art and decor pieces add a cozy feeling to these accommodations located on ground level of the Sea - U Main House.

Despite the clear increase in algae levels compared to last summer, especially in the eastern Gulf of Finland, the eutrophication level of the sea area is still clearly lower than a decade ago..

«Considering possible levels of sea - level rise and their consequences is crucial to risk management.»

«Both of the scenarios we used project substantial levels of sea level rise, whereas the models did not agree on the direction of change of California's precipitation.»

Extreme sea levels are the maximum levels of the sea that occur during a major storm and produce massive flooding.

Wanless says this shouldn't obscure the bigger picture, which is that globally, Florida is in for catastrophic levels of sea level rise by the end of the century if we don't get carbon in the atmosphere under control.

Shoal Atoll is the second hidden level of Sea Breeze Cove in Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze.

The relatively low levels of sea urchins, and good plankton production, means that this area still has thriving habitats and good biodiversity compared to many of the other dive sites in the Canaries.

From this small set, they applied the resulting model to the wider Greenland Ice Sheet, in order to work out the expected sea - level rise just from the most recent observed changes - and so figure out a «committed level of sea - rise».

«The western Gulf is experiencing some of the highest rates of relative levels of sea - level rise in the country,» said NOAA oceanographer William Sweet, lead author of the study.

«Proving that these particular emissions that came from these fossil fuel companies led to this particular level of sea level rise and contribute X amount to harms that have happened or will happen — that's a long chain of causation.»

Higher levels of sea salts favor reduction processes and thus GEM destruction in the snow interstitial air (30), but no long - term trends have been reported for sea salt impurities deposited on the Greenland ice sheet during the last century (33).

That measurement included only the height above the average level of the sea and did not consider the depth of the wave trough.

Rattan chairs, locally hand - crafted clay lamps, batik art and decor pieces add to a cozy feeling of this superior room located at the far end of the ground level of the Sea - U Main House.

«As global levels of sea ice declined last year, many experts said this was evidence of man - made global warming.

Thinner ice takes less energy to melt than thicker ice, so the stage was set for low levels of sea ice this summer.»

In early September, the Guardian in London reported, «The Arctic ice cap has collapsed at an unprecedented rate this summer, and levels of sea ice in the region now stand at a record low.»

While seasonal streams on the eastern and western shores have contributed small amounts of water, the bulk of its supply has come from the Jordan, and evaporation has kept the level of the sea constant.

Peltier, W.R., 1998: Postglacial variations in the level of the sea: implications for climate dynamics and solid - earth geophysics.

The buildings around the swimming pool all start a few feet above the level of the sea but the Tortola, Virgin Gorda and Jost Van Dyke buildings that surround the cove all sit on considerably higher ground.

This in turn could raise the level of the sea by 10 feet.

The raise of the level of the sea, for example, could create situations of extreme gravity when taking into account that a quarter of the world population lives by the sea or very close to it, and that most megacities are located in coastal areas.

January 2017 had the lowest levels of sea ice on historical record, and according to NASA, the ice is receding at a rate of 13.8 percent every decade.