Sentences with phrase «on land elevation»

Over the long - term, melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could yield as much as 10 to 14 feet of global average sea level rise, with local sea level rise varying considerably depending on land elevation trends, ocean currents and other factors.

Not exact matches

There is for them only one God — he is holy, his land is holy, his nation is to be a holy people — and while the indiscriminate mixture of moral and ceremonial elements carries over old ideas even while it ventures into new ones, there is an evident elevation of the idea of holiness into terms of the divine majesty, and of the Most High's exclusive claim on man s devotion.

Among the questions: what is working, and not working, in the Build it Back program, the mayor's reaction to a report that a family he visited in the Arverne section of Rockaway is «getting close» to losing faith in the mayor, the scope / number of people still directly affected by Sandy, whether his weekend trip to Pennsylvania involved a meeting with the consultants running the Build it Back program, whether he stands by statements he made during a September visit to Far Rockaway's St. Mary Star of the Sea, whether the Bloomberg administration allocated enough money to housing from the first tranch of federal assistance, whether he agrees with Oddo's idea of acquiring land for redevelopment, the role of Michael DeLoach in Build it Back, whether New Yorkers should be concerned that they may lose desirable options under Build it Back after de Blasio completes his review and issues on elevation of existing structures v. new construction.

The Speaker of Parliament, Edward Doe Adjaho, has congratulated the President - elect, Nana Akufo - Addo on his elevation to the high office of the land.

Published this week in Nature Climate Change, the initial study finds that embankments constructed since the 1960s are primarily to blame for lower land elevations along the Ganges - Brahmaputra River Delta, with some areas experiencing more than twice the rate of the most worrisome sea - level rise projections from the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The image on the left shows eolian (lower) and runup bedding (upper) exposed in a roadcut on Old Land Road on Great Exuma Island (road elevation +23 meters).

Satellites aren't built to last forever, so it's not a big surprise that the third and last laser on NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) quit working on October 11, outlasting its designed mission length by three and a half years.

Ohio State research associate Myoung - Jong Noh created the software, which builds 1 - gigabyte «tiles» representing regions 7 kilometers on a side and assembles them into mosaics depicting land, sea and ice elevation.

The analysis, which used land elevation and tidal data, found that 460 acres, or about a sixth of Hallandale Beach, would be below sea level during high tide under a 3 - foot scenario of rise, according to Nancy Gassman, a natural resources administrator for Broward County's Natural Resources Planning and Management Division who worked on the assessment.

or stomata, the tiny openings on the leaf surface through which plants absorb gases needed for photosynthesis, can provide clues to land elevation over time.

While the specific cause of the Yosemite toad's decline is unknown, meadow restoration across the high Sierras is of importance to land managers focusing on watershed health to maintain clean and sustainable water supplies for the populations at lower elevations.

Having precise measurements of snow on sea ice is essential for NASA's upcoming Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite - 2 (ICESat - 2).

Modeling Sea - Level Rise Effects on Population using Global Elevation and Land - Cover Data E. Lynn Usery (2007) http://cegis.usgs.gov/pdf/aag-2007.pdf

Landing a large mass could probably be achieved, but astronauts might be restricted to landing on portions of the planet with low elevations, and they might be able to carry only a small amount of supplies for a short visit of limitedLanding a large mass could probably be achieved, but astronauts might be restricted to landing on portions of the planet with low elevations, and they might be able to carry only a small amount of supplies for a short visit of limitedlanding on portions of the planet with low elevations, and they might be able to carry only a small amount of supplies for a short visit of limited scope.

Two missions will use space - borne lasers to measure tree height: an instrument mounted on the International Space Station, called the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI); and a satellite called the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite - 2 (ICESat - 2), that will focus on measuring snow and ice, but will also measure the planet's forests.

Hiking takes place within The Central Forest Reserve National Park, which includes all land on St. Kitts above 1000 - feet in elevation.

The climate can range from coast side lands drenched with fog in mild winters and summers to inland reaches baked by hot sunshine on long summer days, which, at higher elevations, can be blanketed with snow in winter.

As the environments become steeper, you'll reach greater heights — use elevation to your advantage by ascending walls and ledges, then launch yourself onto your target and land a flurry of blows, while holding on for your life!

Modeling Sea - Level Rise Effects on Population using Global Elevation and Land - Cover Data E. Lynn Usery (2007) http://cegis.usgs.gov/pdf/aag-2007.pdf

We interpolate each elevation — population relationship to estimate county populations on affected land at sea levels of interest and to estimate the thresholds below which selected fractions of each city population (i) live.

The area of emerged land depends on sea level and on the distribution of continental elevations as a function of continental area that is given by the continental hypsometric curve.

Even more ambitious, however, is the government's plan to reclaim and construct a land area the size of New York's Central Park at 5 - to - 10 meters above sea level, allowing citizens from outer atolls to resettle on this new elevation - fortified land, excavated from the sea on Funafuti Atoll.

If the land is rolling or hilly, the cold air formed on the higher land surfaces tends to drain into the hollows, producing a larger and thicker inversion above low ground and little or none above higher elevations.

While the local effects of ice albedo and land elevation change are huge (because the local forcings are huge, particularly for ice albedo), their widescale climate effects are limited by their location on land.

Coastal compared to inland, high elevation compared to not so high, river valley compared to flat plain, many lakes versus few, forest land versus farmland, or on the Canadian border.

Of course, this may only happen mostly on the 30 % land surfaces, predominantly at lower elevations, I would think — not on water covered surfaces where the heat capacity of water would limit the cooling or heating of the crust, although any part of the affected plate that is land bound would still lever the whole plate to or fro.

We calculated the population in the flood plain based on the distribution of coastal population per 1 m elevation increment (Table 2) assuming that all land below the computed surge heights belongs to the 100 - year flood plain.

A guard must be provided that is not less than 920 mm, measured vertically to the top of the guard from a line drawn through the outside edges of the stair nosings and 1,070 mm around the landings, is required on each side of a stairway where the difference in elevation between ground level and the top step is more than 600 mm but, where there is a wall, a guard is not required on that side

Flood plains are based on the land's elevation, slope and proximity to water sources.

Many insurers take into account particular features of your home and your neighbours home, such as whether you have raised the stumps or foundation level, the elevation of the land, and whether your house is on a slope.

If your home has been built in a flood plain or low lands, that means the area is particularly vulnerable to flooding and you may end - up paying a higher premium for flood insurance coverage than those whose homes are on a higher elevation.

Flood plain maps show every locale in Massachusetts and list flood plain areas for 10 - year, 30 - year, 50 - year, and 100 - year periods based on the land and slope elevation, as well as your proximity to sources of water.