Sentences with phrase «means higher sea»

When water warms, it expands; in the case of the oceans, that means higher sea levels.

Yes, people probably get the point that global warming and climate change mean higher sea levels, melting ice in the Arctic, fewer species, less snow for skiing, and bigger storms and droughts.

Not exact matches

But while this vessel was out carrying out its decidedly mean - spirited plan, it ran into trouble on the high seas of the Mediterranean, off the coast of Libya.

I was also living at a high altitude so I wouldn't be able to post a recipe that everyone could make (that means the majority of you who live at sea - level!)

Traditional cotton such as Sea Island cotton is a long staple cotton, longer fibers mean softer, smoother cotton with higher tensile strength.

First, sea - surface temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico have been higher than normal in the past couple of months, due to global warming, which means the air that flowed north would have been warmer to start with.

Search engines are meant to pick out high - quality sites amid the sea of knock - offs, but even they get overwhelmed.

Because water expands as it warms, that heat also meant that sea surface heights were record high, measuring about 2.75 inches higher than at the beginning of the satellite altimeter record in 1993.

The analysis of high - frequency surface air temperature, mean sea - level pressure, wind speed and direction and cloud - cover data from the solar eclipse of 20 March 2015 from the UK, Faroe Islands and Iceland, published today (Monday 22 August 2016), sheds new light on the phenomenon.

It means we can now produce maps of where coral is likely to be for large areas of the deep - sea that we have not yet visited, and use them to identify high value ecological areas that might need protection from damaging activities.»

«Moving to higher ground, officially recommended after the disaster, would mean a huge change for residents in the region, many of whom rely on the sea and land for their livelihood,» says Sako.

When scientists talk about the consequences of climate change, it can mean more than how we human beings will be impacted by higher temperatures, rising seas and serious storms.

An ancestor of the present - day rabbit The Paratethys Sea - which was located to the south of Europe and spanned from the northern Alps to the Aral Sea in western Asia - had disappeared, and a lack of high mountains here meant that there were no barriers to hinder this animal's expansion.

Several countries had already set up coastal tide gauges — essentially, a float attached to a pen that traced a line on a chart — and were calculating mean sea level, defined as the average of sea level measured at regular intervals between high and low tide.

With Julian Orford of Queen's University Belfast in the UK, Pethick found that on the Pussur estuary, high tides are rising 16 millimetres a year, five times faster than mean sea level.

Hurricane Harvey likely generated a storm tide of 10 - 12 feet near Port Lavaca, although the highest observed level reported was 7 feet above mean sea level.

The altitude ranges between 1600 m and 2400 m above mean sea level and although not very high, the mountain slopes are characterized by steep cliffs and crevices.

Higher sea levels allow storm surge to penetrate farther inland, meaning flood damage will increase even if hurricanes do not get any stronger.

That study found seas rose 1.6 meters (5 feet) per century «when the global mean temperature was 2 °C higher than today,» a rather mild version of where we are headed in the second half of this century.

The reason sleeping at high altitude is beneficial is because sometimes training at high altitude means you lose speed as you physically can not push yourself as hard as you can at sea level.

I think you might want to avoid Atlantic Salmon, AFAIK, it's farmed, which means things like sea lice and the pesticides used to get rid of them, lack of access to what Salmon normally eat, toxins from the feed, artificially colored, lower Omega 3's, though it has higher fat (which means worse O3: O6 ratios), etc..

However, it means that your high - fat, low - carb diet should include thyroid supporting foods rich in iodine and selenium, such as sea vegetables and brazil nuts, and should also include carbohydrates timed properly, such as before, during or after workouts, when the carbohydrate is more likely to be utilized for energy and less likely to spike blood glucose levels.

Yeah, I mean, just pinch a little bit of sea salt in there, high quality sea salt, that will really help add the — the mineralization it needs.

For example, if tribes migrate (d) to a certain locale or are forced out of an ideal way of life due to cataclysm etc, (such as leaving fruit bearing tropical climates due to sea level rise in ancient prehistory as seen from underwater megalithic stone temples from around the world) then that does nt mean their way of life currently is the most ideal that the body thrives on, such as «paleo» diet or atkins diet or other FAD BULLSHIT low carb, high fat diets that are EXTREMELY HARMFUL AS CITED CONCLUSIVELY.

The weather is supposed to be a lot like Sea Island this past weekend (high 60s to low 70s, cooler at night) which means I'll be packing lots of sweaters and white jeans.

That means the driving position is too high, there's not enough wheel adjustment and you're drowning is a sea of cheap plastics.

Its highest point is only 28 feet above sea level, which is how it got its name, «tierra anegada» meaning flooded land in Spanish.

Meaning High River, this blissful four - bedroom villa sits on the banks of a small lagoon, where the river meets the sea, with over 100 metres of private beach frontage overlooking one of Canggus infamous surf breaks.

My friend suggested Koh Samui over in the Gulf of Thailand which was in high season, meaning clear blue and calm seas and maybe a whale shark or two.

The high numbers of scuba holiday makers visiting the Red Sea has meant that the Egyptian government must satisfy travel industry leaders demands in terms of faciities for handling diving emergencies.

Sea Breeze Resort - Koh Phangan is one of the very few luxurious spa resorts in Thailand.The high standards that the staff holds make this a great place to stay.Staying at this hotel means that guests are going to have access to a private swimming pool.They will also have a beautiful view of the Gulf of Thailand that is not interrupted by anything.Guests will be able to see the two main beaches from this location.Those that want to take a short stroll can do so in order to enter the heart of Hadd Resort.What about a private beach?This is offered as well.This resort gives you access to the Leela Beach.

Enjoy views of the sea amid lush, tropical gardens at this villa whose name means «high river.»

The Absolutely Green in the lush high heartland of Bali at an altitude of 1.142 meters above the sea level which surrounded by rolling mountain, crater lakes and ancient forest, the course design is meant to blend the fairways and create a dramatic backdrop for tea shots and approaches.The deep blue sky, the air fresh, clear and the temperature average between 14 - 20 Celsius degrees.It is rights comfortable golfing destination in Bali.It features tall trees and flowers of riotous colour separating the fairway of this 18 holes championship course.Designed by Peter Thompson, Michael Wolferidge & Associates, Bali Handara Kosaido Country Club will make you feel a part of the rich, sporty, and exotic nature.

From a Mayan term meaning «beautiful sea», the gorgeous beachfront villas of Chabil Mar are all tastefully appointed and include a full range of modern amenities, including 400 - thread - count linens, multi-zone air - conditioning, and high - speed wireless internet.

Tompkins makes her material sing anew — formally and thematically; a transubstantiation of medium and meaning occurs that, in its fearless collision with normative culture through crops and alteration, becomes a feminist act, an exemplar of female agency in a sea of high capitalist consumerism that would otherwise deny it.

[this is useful, the pre-ice age era, ~ 2.5 — 3.6 million years ago, last time CO2 levels were as high as today] In response to Pliocene climate, ice sheet models consistently produce near - complete deglaciation of the Greenland ice sheet (+7 m) and West Antarctic ice sheet (+4 m) and retreat of the marine margins of the Eastern Antarctic ice sheet (+3 m)(Lunt et al., 2008; Pollard and DeConto, 2009; Hill et al., 2010), altogether corresponding to a global mean sea level rise of up to 14 m.

Given that impacts don't scale linearly — that's true both because of the statistics of normal distributions, which imply that (damaging) extremes become much more frequent with small shifts in the mean, and because significant breakpoints such as melting points for sea ice, wet - bulb temperatures too high for human survival, and heat tolerance for the most significant human food crops are all «in play» — the model forecasts using reasonable emissions inputs ought to be more than enough for anyone using sensible risk analysis to know that we making very bad choices right now.

Therefore we want to know how high, relative to mean sea level, the salt marsh was located at any given time.

However long it took, sea level was 4 - 6m higher during the LIG, with global mean temperature only 1C or so warmer, and CO2 100 ppm or so less than today's.

The observations from the Laptev Sea in 2007 indicate that the bottom water temperatures on the mid-shelf increased by more than 3 C compared to the long - term mean as a consequence of the unusually high summertime surface water temperatures.

«The science behind this is mean sea level, which is an average of high and low tides.

Meaning one get an effect similar to the higher troposphere one gets on Earth with the tropics: «At latitudes above 60, the tropopause is less than 9 -10 km above sea level; the lowest is less than 8 km high, above Antarctica and above Siberia and northern Canada in winter.

This February's sea surface temperatures were 1.46 degrees above average, which means the past nine months have been the nine highest monthly global ocean temperature departures on record.

The largest of the fen - islands is the Isle of Ely, on which the cathedral city of Ely was built: its highest point is 39 m above mean sea level.

Note that the sea ice extent is likely to be higher than the record September minimum in 2012 simply due to «regression to the mean», but it would not imply that there had been any «recovery».

Some are clearly at this level, meaning that it is within the margin of error that sea surface temperatures could have been higher.?»

Until you can all agree on whether changes in soil moisture are due to lower solar, or due to higher CO2, use solely sea surface temperatures for global mean surface T change.

Short period trends of acceleration in mean sea level after 1990 are evident at each site, although these are not abnormal or higher than other short - term rates measured throughout the historical record.»

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.

That now means, within the last three years, when global sea surface temperatures have been at their highest, we have seen the strongest hurricane globally, the strongest hurricane in the northern hemisphere, the strongest hurricane in the southern hemisphere, and the strongest storms in both the Pacific and the open Atlantic, with Irma.