Sentences with phrase «meters over hundreds of years»

Such a temperature rise could raise sea levels by tens of meters over hundreds of years.

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The relatively low speed — between 6 and 7 meters per second — suggests the process must have taken place over thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years before the asteroid was formed, when a gravitationally stable cloud of debris spun in the disk of material that would go on to build the solar system.

Over the years, her team has shown that it's responsible for 5 % of global photosynthesis and depends on an estimated 80,000 genes distributed among hundreds of strains to thrive in nutrient - poor waters ranging from the sea surface to 200 meters down.

So, in the case of the NODC findings, the almost impossible - to - measure +0.09 °C over 55 years for the top 2,000 meters of the ocean indicates future temps, a hundred years out, will equate to an almost impossible - to - measure increase of +0.16 °C.

C over 55 years for the top 2,000 meters of the ocean indicates future temps, a hundred years out, will equate to an almost impossible - to - measure increase of +0.16

Scientists from the Center for Arctic Gas Hydrate (CAGE), Environment and Climate at the Arctic University of Norway, published a study in June 2017, describing over a hundred ocean sediment craters, some 3,000 meters wide and up to 300 meters deep, formed due to explosive eruptions, attributed to destabilizing methane hydrates, following ice - sheet retreat during the last glacial period, around 12,000 years ago, a few centuries after the Bølling - Allerød warming.