Sentences with phrase «on global sea levels»

The breakup and melting of floating ice has no direct effect on global sea levels.

That much heat could have sweeping impacts on global sea levels, ice cover, droughts, and agriculture.

I knew that this was happening, and thought that the flooded streets would make a great backdrop for my video on global sea level rise.

ONE nation's thirst for groundwater is having an impact on global sea levels.

By contrast, there has been a detectable human influence on global sea level pressure.

«We found that the Antarctic ice sheet had an uneven effect on the global sea level because its growth resulted in a complex interplay between gravitational and rotational effects and the deformations to Earth's crust caused by ice advance and retreat,» he says.

«It also demonstrates the importance of climate models in interpreting satellite records, such as in our work where they allow us to estimate the background effects of the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo on global sea level.»

Since the AR5, an important new paper has been published on global sea levels over the past 2500 years (Kopp et al. 2016).

The biggest area of marine ice in the east is likely to be released despite the cold air temperatures, confirming the worries about the effect of melting Antarctic ice on global sea levels.

Humpert continued: «Most articles also exaggerated the importance of the melt event on global sea levels by explaining how sea levels would rise by up to 7.2 metres if the ice sheet were to melt.»

Fluctuations in the mass of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are of considerable societal importance as they impact directly on global sea levels: since 1901, ice losses from Antarctica and Greenland, alongside the melting of small glaciers and ice caps and thermal expansion of the oceans, have caused global sea levels to rise at an average rate of 1.7 mm / yr.

As Unnikrishnan, chief scientist of the National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, said policymakers would have to rely on the global sea level rise projections to draw up their strategies to deal with the emerging scenarios.

Sequence stratigraphy is based on these global sea level changes.

Other types of human activity, such as deforestation / reforestation, could also be having significant effects on global sea levels (either increases or decreases).

Evidence of past glacial advance and retreat is also more easily observed in the Dry Valleys, providing a window into the past behavior of the vast Antarctic ice sheets and their influence on global sea levels.

Greenland, which is so consequential because of its potential impact on global sea levels, gets its own section.

But if further monitoring reveals an accelerated rate of ice thinning, «it ultimately could have an impact on global sea level.»

What are NASA and other science agencies doing to better understand this vulnerable region and its potential impact on global sea level?

Emissions scenarios were converted to projections of atmospheric GHG and aerosol concentrations, radiative forcing of the climate, effects on regional climate, and climatic effects on global sea level (IPCC, 2001a).