Sentences with phrase «mean sea level equivalent»

Given the impacts of adding 120 meters equivalent of global mean sea level equivalent of freshwater to the system are unlikely to be negligible on ocean circulation and biological activity.

Not exact matches

People's beliefs tend to align neatly with their interests, and in the absence of indisputable proof (and to non-scientists that means the equivalent of a ten - foot rise in sea level inundating South Beach) it is more «convenient» for people to use cheap oil, natural gas and coal.

The contribution from glaciers and ice caps (not including Greenland and Antarctica), on the other hand, is computed from a simple empirical formula linking global mean temperature to mass loss (equivalent to a rate of sea level rise), based on observed data from 1963 to 2003.

That would likely mean that also the official UN climate goal of limiting the average world temperature rise to no more than 2 degrees Celsius — a target linked to 450 ppm CO2 equivalent stabilisation scenarios (practically ambitious, theoretically weak)-- will eventually lead to many meters of global sea level rise.

West Antarctica loses an amount of water weight equivalent to Mount Everest every two years and this could mean that sea level could rise by about by 3 feet in 2100.

Based on ice - sheet model simulations consistent with elevation changes derived from a new Greenland ice core, the Greenland ice sheet very likely contributed between 1.4 m and 4.3 m sea level equivalent, implying with medium confidence a contribution from the Antarctic ice sheet to the global mean sea level during the last interglacial period.

For instance: I was looking at what the AMSU instruments (http://discover.itsc.uah.edu/amsutemps) at sea - level are showing and their equivalent temperature has always hovered about 294.75 K ± 0.25 K for global average, not 288 as Trenberth assumes as the mean global average temperature of the surface, so, just change it and see the effect.