Sentences with phrase «mean sea level height»

One challenge has been that the state of the hydrological cycle is not as easily summarised by one single index in the same way as the global mean temperature or the global mean sea level height.

Not exact matches

The mean sea level referenced to these height systems has been decreasing over the past decades.

A detailed body of literature is on hand — alluding to Wagner, Dürer, the measurements of the concentration camps, the geographical height of the White Cube gallery above sea level — to help you construct additional meanings.

Would you care to explain further (or direct me to a reference) the bit about determining the height relative to mean sea level

The current hard shorelines of New York City failed us because they are too binary — meaning that the sea walls only protect us until the water level reaches a certain height where it will then overflow into the city.

Also, station height (e.g. above mean sea level) would probably be an important factor to try and include.

So, in theory, this measurement could be converted into a measure of the sea surface height, i.e., the mean sea level.

The Finnish Meteorological Institute confirms the height of the theoretical mean sea level annually, using the most recent knowledge on the past and future changes of the factors affecting the sea level.

Global mean sea level (eg - the global average height of the ocean) has typically been calculated from tidal gauges.

They found that what had in 1800 been the chance of the one - in -500-years flood event — 2.25 metres above mean tidal height — increased with time and sea level.

Monthly temperature, precipitation, 500hPa geopotential height, mean sea - level pressure and soil moisture over the entire globe are also output to assess larger scale weather systems.

The derived average storm surge heights were then displaced upwards by the amount of global mean sea - level rise assumed for the 2030 and 2060 Foresight scenarios [38, 39], 10 cm and 21 cm respectively (Table 3).

«Geopotential height» is the height above mean sea level for a given pressure level.