Sentences with phrase «levels by a meter»

«That would mean four to five Fahrenheit degrees of warming for the world as a whole, raising sea levels by a meter or more.»

How much could that affect the need for extreme glacial acceleration to raise sea levels by a meter?

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Inadequate flood protection infrastructure, which right now might not contain high tides in El Nino years; Lack of action on annual sediment removal from spring freshets, which each year move over 30 million m3 of sediment and leave about 3 million m3 of silt in the navigation and secondary channels of the lower reaches; and, By the end of this century sea levels at the mouth of the river could potentially rise more than one meter due to climate change overtopping the diking system.

This level of electricity reduced the metered demand on the grid by about the same amount, suggesting that the total solar share of gross demand probably exceeded 50 % during the mid-day hours.

The minerals are by no means easy to access (almost 6,000 meters below sea level and 1,800 km SE of Tokyo), but the discovery could trigger the start of a new era of tech development.

However, since the 1960s the flow from the Jordan has dropped by 90 percent, and the surface level of the Dead Sea has dropped 25 meters.

We were 2023 meters above sea level, or approximately 6,600 feet, in a rain shadow that is formed by the Sierra Gorda, creating a high altitude desert.

Think of Bryce Harper's eventual contract as being represented by a contract - o - meter with five levels:

Following the recommendations of a resolution drafted by its Environmental, Energy and Technology Committee, the Ulster County Legislature approved «Memorializing Resolution» No. 315, which supports state - level bills establishing a customer's right to choose whether or not to accept the current wireless model electricity meters being deployed by Central Hudson.

Without the dispersant injection, the model showed that benzene concentrations in the air 2 meters above the sea surface would have been 13 times higher than the levels considered acceptable to breathe during a 10 - hour working day or a 40 - hour work week, based on guidelines by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).

After adjusting their findings to account for differences in race and ethnicity, sex, age, poverty level, education and urban density of the children's neighborhoods, Keet and her team found that for each microgram / cubic meter increase in coarse particulate matter, asthma diagnosis increased by 0.6 percent, emergency room visits for asthma by 1.7 percent and hospitalizations for asthma by 2.3 percent.

Started in 2003 and scheduled to be completed by 2012 in northern Chile's Atacama Desert at 16,500 feet (5,000 meters) above sea level, the facility employs more than 64 40 - foot (12 - meter) antennas.

While perhaps more mundane than the megaboulders (found only locally on Eleuthera), the sedimentological structures found within chevron ridge and runup deposits across islands throughout the Bahamas and Bermuda point to frequent and repeated inundation by powerful storm waves, in some locations leaving storm deposits tens of meters above sea level.

The newly enclosed sea succumbed to evaporation, its water level falling by thousands of meters, turning it into a desertlike environment pockmarked with shallow pools as salty as today's Dead Sea.

Micallef and his team have hypothesized, based on earlier calculations by Garcia - Castellanos and his colleagues, that the torrent boosted the sea level in the eastern Mediterranean by at least 10 meters per day, refilling the entire sea in just a few years.

Meanwhile, in the last 20 years, the OMZ had expanded upward toward the ocean surface by 40 meters, and oxygen levels had fallen by 20 percent in the past decade.

When Greenland melts, places as far away as Norway and Scotland could actually see the sea level fall by as much as 50 meters.

However, when most people think of Yakushima, their attention is first drawn by the Jomon cedars 500 meters above sea level, and the value of the lowland laurel forests is not widely known.

«Roughly a third to two thirds of the beaches will effectively disappear by the end of the century,» with 0.93 to 2.0 meters of sea level — rise, Barnard says.

During ice ages, which are mainly driven by rhythmic variations in Earth's orbit and spin that alter sunlight in the Northern Hemisphere, growing ice caps and glaciers trap so much frozen water on land that sea levels can drop a hundred meters or more.

By 2100, he says, «you could easily see a meter of sea - level rise.»

The meltdown of west Antarctica could raise sea levels around the world by more than three meters.

Most of the nation is about 1.5 meters above sea level, a threshold that could easily be breached by the end of the century if current projections of sea - level rise occur.

But by 2009, the dam's water level is set to be raised to its full 575 - foot capacity and then lowered about 100 feet (30 meters) during flood season.

SPEED UP The collapse of West Antarctica's glaciers may be unavoidable, and the ice sheet's demise could raise global sea level by as much as 4 meters, researchers reported.

Sea level was down by probably about 120 meters [400 feet]-- there was a lot more land in that area.

Within a few hundred years sea levels in some places had risen by as much as 10 meters — more than if the ice sheet that still covers Greenland were to melt today.

All told, if the eastern and western Antarctic ice shelves were to melt completely, they would raise sea levels by as much as 230 feet (70 meters); the collapse of smaller shelves like Larsen B has sped up the flow of glaciers behind them into the sea, contributing to the creeping up of high tide levels around the world.

Sea levels could rise more than a meter by the end of the century, flooding large parts of Florida.

The melting of the polar ice cap would have a drastic effect: Sea level would rise by several meters around the world, impacting hundreds of millions of people who live close to coasts.

In the long run, they say, the entire ice sheet is doomed, which would release enough meltwater to raise sea levels by more than 3 meters.

One recent study by Gordon McGranahan, Deborah Balk, and Bridget Anderson (2007) found that although coastal areas less than 10 meters above sea level constitute only 2 percent of the world's land area, they contain 10 percent of the world's population.

Sea levels could rise by 2.3 meters for each degree Celsius that global temperatures increase and they will remain high for centuries to come, according to a new study by the leading climate research institute, released on Monday.

There, on a single mountain range located 1,100 meters above sea level, scientists have recently found what may be the last few white lemuroid ringtail possums (Hemibelideus lemuroides), a species that was all but wiped out by a heat wave in 2005.

On the dBA scale, 0 dB corresponds with the threshold of hearing (10 - 12 watts / square meter), the level that can just barely be detected by most people.

If that is successful — and everything thus far has been a big «if» — BP wants to create a more durable LMRP containment cap system by directing the oil and gas to a new free - floating riser ending about 90 meters below sea level (a flexible hose will be used to connect it to vessels on the surface).

If all the ice in Greenland were to melt in coming decades (an unlikely scenario), it would raise sea levels by seven meters (more than 20 feet)-- enough to swamp New Orleans, Florida's coast, Bangladesh and the Netherlands, among other low - lying lands.

To avoid the white coat effect, at - home automatic measurements taken by the patient may be required, but available oscillometry - based automatic meters offer a low level of accuracy.

«There are suggestions in the literature that accelerated breakup of ice shelves will lead to rise of sea level by several meters by the end of the century,» Godin said.

If the entire land - based glacier destabilizes and slips into the sea, it could raise global sea level by at least 3.5 meters.

A relatively small amount of melting over a few decades, the authors say, will inexorably lead to the destabilization of the entire ice sheet and the rise of global sea levels by as much as 3 meters.

«Due to climate change, we expect global sea levels to rise by up to one meter over the next 100 years.

Here the best estimate is that sea levels will rise by 0.68 meters, but there is a risk of increases up to 1.6 meters.

This ice sheet alone lowered global sea - level by over 20 meters.

The team gives the example of a sound - meter app funded by adverts, which has access to a phone's microphone to monitor sound levels and to the internet to download ads.

MELT ZONE The Totten ice shelf (shown here) holds back a massive glacier, which drains a France - sized portion of East Antarctica and could raise sea levels by at least 3.5 meters if it slides into the sea.

«For London, the calculated best estimate is that sea level will rise by 0.8 meters.

If that happened, it would push sea levels up by five meters in as short a time as a century.

Electricity produced by a fuel cell by combining hydrogen and oxygen powered an electric motor to turn the two - seat test glider's propeller and enabled it to fly for roughly 20 minutes at 62 miles per hour (100 kilometers per hour) at about 3,300 feet (1,000 meters) above sea level.

Not only are ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica breaking up faster than scientists expected, but more of their melt water is flowing into oceans, he said, which will raise sea levels by 3.3 feet (1 meter) by 2100.