Sentences with phrase «of sea level height»

Further measurements of sea level height, water temperature and salinity should help scientists unravel the mystery of the bulge.

The most likely scenario studied was based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's projections of sea level height by 2100 and corresponding changes in reef structure.

Not exact matches

Mountain Spring Coffee Company has its farm house at a height of 2500ft above sea level.

One of their biggest assets is the height of their stadium, sitting at almost 2,000 metres above sea level.

According to scientists at the Alaska Volcano Observatory, the ash plume reached a height of 50,000 feet above sea level.

Even when sea levels were at their lowest, about 22,000 years ago at the height of the last ice age, the islands were likely out of the deer's swimming range.

Coastal communities around the world will likely see similar wave height increases, dependent on local reef structures and extent of sea level rise.

The glacial streams descending through the depressions among the mountain slopes constituted the usual lines of travel, and the route developed was new and independent, passing among mountain peaks rising to the height of 15,000 and 18,000 feet above the sea and gradually mounting to a maximum level before the Pole was reached and thence descending very gradually for 140 miles over a vast plateau to the position which was occupied on December l5th and 16th, 1911, and determined to be the South Pole.

That measurement included only the height above the average level of the sea and did not consider the depth of the wave trough.

While satellites have provided consistently good data for years, the next frontier in sea level rise measurement is a new type of radar that can capture a more crisp, higher - resolution picture of sea surface heights.

At the height of the last interglacial, when greenhouse - gas levels were roughly similar to current values, the global sea level was 4 - 6 metres higher than it is today.

The volume of ash deposited, and the estimated height of the eruption plume (43 kilometers above sea level) put the eruption's magnitude at a minimum of 7 on the volcanic explosivity index (which has a scale of 1 to 8)-- making it one of the largest known in the Holocene.

The movement of water in the ocean is determined by many factors including tides; winds; surface waves; internal waves, those that propagate within the layers of the ocean; and differences in temperature, salinity or sea level height.

New research led by University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (UHM) oceanographer Bo Qiu has determined from observational data the length scale at which using sea level height no longer offers a reliable calculation of circulation.

Taking into account the sizes of the boulders, the height of the plateaus, and the local topography, they estimate that a single tsunami resulting from the sudden, total collapse of the volcano's flank must have run up on Santiago to elevations of more than 270 meters above sea level.

Other tests indicate that the long - lost peak — now dubbed Kaena volcano — grew from the sea floor and broke through the ocean's surface about 3.5 million years ago, eventually reaching a height of about 1000 meters above sea level before it began sinking back into the sea.

Efforts to give one single standard of height could help us understand sea level rise, remeasure mountains — and rewrite the textbooks in other ways, too

It's sort of hard to define exactly where the atmosphere ends and outer space begins (since the atmosphere gradually falls off as you go up in altitude), but one popular choice is the so - called «Karman line» at a height of 100 km (or around 62 miles) above sea level.

This height difference existed because the Germans refer, for such calculations, to the sea level of the North Sea, whereas the Swiss refer to the sea level of the Mediterranean Ssea level of the North Sea, whereas the Swiss refer to the sea level of the Mediterranean SSea, whereas the Swiss refer to the sea level of the Mediterranean Ssea level of the Mediterranean SeaSea.

They maintain that the first Americans were the Clovis people, who crossed into the New World from Asia when a fall in sea levels at the height of the last Ice Age created a land bridge, known as Beringia, between the two continents.

In a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers compared sea level and storm surge heights from 850 to 1800, before significant human influences on the climate, to the period from 1970 to 2005.

When you add in climate trends including sea level rise, which can increase the height of storm surge, and projections of fewer but more intense hurricanes, you have a recipe for increased vulnerability and losses in these regions in the future.

When add in a environment like the top of Everest where the atmospheric pressure and inspired oxygen pressure fall roughly... 30 % of the sea level value at 8900 m which is the height of the summit of Everest.

To answer the question what is maca root, let's climb high above sea level till we get to altitude of 13,000 feet in Peruvian Andes and find there this amazing root plant, which is the only plant that is used for food to grow at such extreme heights.

The Grossglockner High Alpine Road (to give it its full title) stretches over 28 miles and 36 hairpins, and reaches a height of 2504m above sea level.

Most of the drive was done in the Alps region of Verbier beginning from the hanger at Sion airport right up to the world famous Verbier ski resort situated at a height of 1531 m above sea level.

The actual height of Pitusiray is debatable; I've seen figures from 4,990 - 5,400 + metres above sea level.

We'll continue on to the highest point of our entire journey which at 4910 metres / 16, 108 ft above sea level is the same height as Mont Blanc, Europe's highest peak.

The sand ridge itself, at three to five feet above sea level, is the highest part of the Caye and reaches a height of almost 10 feet at San Pedro Town.

Sayacmarca To enter the ruins of Sayacmarca one needs to climb 98 vertical stone steps along the side of a mountain at a height of 3,600 m above sea level.

In the highlands of Bali is full of green plants, the height of 1000 meters above sea level, this is where Bali Handara Kosaido Country Club stand.

From sea level, Mauna Loa reaches 13,680 feet in height, but when measured from its base at the ocean floor, this mammoth of a mountain clocks in at 30,080 feet.

The glass bridge, on the eastern face of the Taihang Mountain, hangs 3,871 feet above sea level, which would probably be a thrilling (or terrifying) height even without novelty cracking glass.

«These terraces were carved into the mountainside over 2,000 years ago and reach heights of 1500m above sea level,» she says.

Wollumbin, which dramatically rises from World Heritage - listed Wollumbin National Park to a height of 1,157 m above sea level, is a remnant central vent of an ancient volcano.

Before arriving in Peru I'd hiked up to an altitude of 2650 metres in the Picos de Europa, and my skiing trips to the Sierra Nevada mountain range (also in Spain) had seen me descending from heights of around 3000 metres above sea level, but this was nothing in comparison to the summit of the Dead Woman's Pass, which lay 1200 metres above the pinnacle of my experience thus far.

The hotel is located at the top of the Barkly Pass with a height of 1990 m above sea level, and is situated on the scenic R58 Route between Barkly - East and Elliot.

We will pick you up from your hotel from 7:50 am to 8:30 am to head for the district of Maras, a picturesque village that is 40 kilometers away from the city of Cusco at a height of 3300 meters above sea level, from This point we will head towards the archeological center of Moray, an enigmatic and wonderful place for its beautiful landscapes, circular terraces and the mystical energy that can be felt descending to the center of this construction.

At its greatest height, HALEAKALA towers 30,000 feet from its base on the floor of the Pacific to its summit 10,023 feet above sea level.

Travel through an uneven mountain road, where stunning views of Puerto Plata are seen at a height of 360feet (110 meters) above sea level.

The Rainforest Village of Kuranda is one of the closest tastes of Wet Tropic wonderland — best explored by a combination of Skyrail Rainforest Cableway and Kuranda Scenic Railway to its lofty 330m - above - sea - level heights.

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.

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.

Has realclimate ever done (or considered doing) an entry about the immense contribution that satellite measurements have made in the past two - three decades, in helping us to understand various components of the earth system (e.g., vegetation, ozone, ice sheet mass, water vapor content, temperature, sea level height, storms, aerosols, etc.)?

I can measure the height of my desk above the floor easily to within a couple of millimeters, even if I have a one - meter uncertainty in its absolute height above sea level.

At the height of the last ice age, sea levels were about 120 metres below present day levels, and the average rise of sea level during the return to our present climate was about 1 metre per one hundred years.

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.

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Nevertheless, the local height profiles give indications of the currents that arise from sea level height differences.

At an average height of 13,000 feet above sea level, they make up the largest area of ice outside the polar regions, nearly a sixth of the world's total.