Sentences with phrase «much coastal land»

Less was heard about another set of models that had attempted to predict how high the storm surge would be, a rough guide to how much coastal land might be flooded.

Not exact matches

According to the Land & Ocean Temperature Percentile map above, a region of coastal west Africa, part of Greece, northwestern Iran, much of the southern Philippines, and central and south central Australia were record warm for the period.

Faced by the loss of so much precious coastal land, it seems quite plausible that our descendants will resort to some kind of mega-project to cool the planet and stop the ice sheets melting.

There is a low coastal plain, much of it covered with mangrove swamp, but the land rises gradually towards the interior.The Maya Mountains and the Cockscomb Range form the backbone of the southern half of the country, the highest point being Victoria Peak (3,669 feet) in the Cockscomb Range.

Specifically, Craddock has concentrated her efforts toward maintaining a record, both mental and visual, of the Alabama coastal lands of Perdido Bay where she spent so much time as a child, and continues to visit as an adult.

Heartland meeging did not see these person, even did not see the catestropic disaster in America, south clifornia drought wildfare, Denver mountine pine become yellow and bear no place to go, maypile tree can not made so much syrup, coastal land crupted, sea level rising let American herios graveyard sank into the water, many and many reality which global warming caused, all these I studied articles last 4 years about global warming.

Here we have a 30 - mile stretch of land with so much diversity; on one end a coastal dry forest and at the other, a rainforest!

For example, science can identify how much monetary loss might occur if tropical cyclones grow more intense or heat waves more frequent, or identify the land that might be lost in coastal communities for various levels of higher seas.

Awareness, capabilities and access to resources that facilitate adaptation are likely to be much less widely available in less developed contexts, where industrial production often takes place in areas vulnerable to flooding, coastal erosion and land slips.

In addition to broadening applications to include measurements of terrestrial water, the synthetic aperture radar - interferometric technology of SWOT will provide much higher resolution measurements for studies of ocean eddies and measurements very near land for coastal applications.