Sentences with phrase «mean sea level fell»

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This means that the melting from Greenland will contribute 14 cm to the global sea level, but locally in Edinburgh it will result in a fall of 4 cm.

But, in the mean time the question is what to do about rising sea levels which, even without anthropogenic contributions of greenhouse gases, would rise and fall as they always have.

In some regions, rates are up to several times the global mean rise, while in other regions sea level is falling.

In our case where the «container» is an ocean basin, this would mean a fall in the «global mean sea level».

Global mean temperatures in 2011 did not reach the record - setting levels of 2010, but were still the highest observed in a La Niña year, and Arctic sea - ice extent fell to near - record - low levels.

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.

The worst - case result is that mean ocean oxygen concentration falls to a low of about 68 % of pre-industrial levels in the next few millennia, while low - oxygen «dead zones» — which don't support fish or many other marine animals such as crabs and clams — spread nearly six-fold to cover 12.8 % of the sea surface area.