Sentences with phrase «only are sea levels»

Not exact matches

The only conclusion I can come to is that the sea level makes a significant difference.

We're at sea level on the East Coast and I only let it sit the minimum amount of time, but they turned out totally awesome.

Among the 1,500 varieties of quinoa currently grown, royal quinoa (or «quinoa real») is grown only in the Bolivian Altiplano salt flats, 13,000 feet above sea level.

The loaf cake sunk a little — next time I would use only 2 tsp of baking powder (I'm at sea level, so I don't need to worry about elevation).

Twelve thousand feet above sea level, flatlands stretched where only mountains were meant to be.

The first of these pathways, marine ice sheet instability, has been studied for decades, but the second, marine ice cliff instability, has only recently been considered as an important contributor to future sea level change.

It's the only Southern Hemisphere bear, calling the Andes home and occupying a range of habitats, including elevations more than 15,000 feet above sea level.

And the atmospheric pressure is only half a percent of what it is at sea level, threatening to shrivel cells into freeze - dried corpses.

«The simulations showed that the only way to account for the proven increase in volcanic activity was that the level (and thus the weight) of the Mediterranean Sea dropped by about two kilometres,» explains Sternai, before adding: «I leave it to you to imagine what the landscape looked like.»

I'm one of only a few dozen maybe in the whole world who focus on landscapes that got covered by sea level rise or prehistoric settlements that were terrestrial but ended up underwater.

When the climate began to cool and sea levels dropped, the atolls become exposed, only to be flooded again during the subsequent rise.

The new approach contrasts with previous ways scientists analyzed and came to conclusions about sea level rise because it is «the only proper one that aims to fully account for uncertainty using statistical methods,» noted Parnell, principal investigator of the study conducted collaboratively with researchers at Tufts University, Rutgers University and Nanyang Technological University.

While the scientific community has long warned about rising sea levels and their destructive impact on life, property and economies of some of the United States» most populous cities, researchers have developed a new, statistical method that more precisely calculates the rate of sea level rise, showing it's not only increasing, but accelerating.

«Until recently, only West Antarctica was considered unstable, but now we know that its ten times bigger counterpart in the East might also be at risk,» says Levermann, who is head of PIK's research area Global Adaptation Strategies and a lead - author of the sea - level change chapter of the most recent scientific assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC.

«Since we conducted our surveys from the bridge, 18 metres above sea level, and from a helicopter, we were only able to spot the larger pieces of litter.

Although the disappearance of the ice around Antarctica will have only a marginal effect on sea levels, it is important because it was predicted to be one of the first signs of global warming.

ALES + automatically identifies the portion of the radar signal which is reflected by water and derives sea level values using this information only.

This is distinctly alarmist... It is common ground that if indeed Greenland melted, it would release this amount of water, but only after, and over, millennia, so that the Armageddon scenario he predicts, insofar as it suggests that sea level rises of 7 metres might occur in the immediate future, is not in line with the scientific consensus.

Understanding Antarctic climate change is important not only because of the potential sea level rise locked up in the vast Antarctic ice sheet, but also the shift in the westerly winds has moved rainfall away from southern Australia.

Although we will not see immediate effects by tomorrow — some of the slow processes will only respond over centuries to millennia — the consequences for long - term ice melt and sea level rise could be substantial.

«As an archaeologist who studies Arctic and Subarctic coastal peoples, erosion associated with intense storm activity, loss of permafrost, rising sea levels, and increasing human activity is devastating to comprehend; however, this study not only documents those processes, but provides a means to examine their highly variable impacts that, hopefully, can lead to constructive ways to prioritize research and mitigate destructive processes in this extremely important region.»

Only 30 percent of respondents answered the sea - level question correctly; Greenland and Antarctic land ice have much greater potential to raise sea level than Arctic sea ice, which is already floating on the ocean.

Melting of the smaller Greenland Ice Sheet can only explain a fraction of this sea - level rise, most which must have been caused by retreat on Antarctica.»

Either scenario could cause flooding because many large cities and valuable beachfronts along the coast are situated only a meter or two above sea level.

The low - lying delta plain is only about 1 m above present sea level.

It shows that changes in Earth's climate and sea level are closely linked, with only small amounts of warming needed to have a significant effect on seal levels.

Not only are ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica breaking up faster than scientists expected, but more of their melt water is flowing into oceans, he said, which will raise sea levels by 3.3 feet (1 meter) by 2100.

Stopping sea level rise, using the ideas reported by Stephen Battersby (18 September, p 40), is not the only strategy...

Our study was unique in that it enabled us to see things in healthy people at altitude that which we might normally only see in obese people at sea level.

As the volcanoes subsided and sea levels rose at the end of the last ice age, they were gradually submerged, leaving only the reefs behind.

Based on our natural background pattern, only about half the observed sea - level rise would be expected.

But roughly speaking, if you do an LGM run and only reduce sea level, put in the ice sheets, change the vegetation, add some dust (though that one is still rough), then you get about 50 % the way you want to go.

Their prediction of only 23 inches for sea level rise is criminal.

Remarkably, only 600 kilometres separates these cities but they are expected to experience rather different amounts of sea - level rise.

«The point is that whatever happens in this century can only start from present conditions and present rates of sea level rise, and that constrains the rise that can occur this century,» he told BBC News.

[SLIDE 17] And so not surprisingly sea level is rising as a result not only of the loss of mountain glaciers and the great land ice sheets — losses from the great land ice sheets; but also thermal expansion of sea water because the ocean is getting warmer.

Sea levels aren't the only things rising due to climate change — swaths of land are too, including the nation of Iceland.

It is noteworthy that whereas ice melt from glaciers, ice caps and ice sheets is very important in the sea level budget (contributing about 40 %), the energy associated with ice melt contributes only about 1 % to the Earth's energy budget.

In the ALMA site at an elevation of 5000 meters, the air is very thin and the amount of oxygen is only half of that at sea level.

Second, the 20th century wasn't the only time period when temperature and global sea level changed together.

At 1 bar (the same pressure as at sea level on Earth) Saturn's atmosphere is only 134 K. Saturn has as much mass as 95 Earths would have — and this massive, cold planet rotates fully around every 10.7 hours!

•» Hence, both regional and local sea - level rise and fall in meter - scale is related to the geologic events only and not related to global warming and / or polar ice melt.»

The paleoclimate record and changes underway in the Arctic and on the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets with only today's warming imply that sea level rise of several meters could be expected.

At one point in the Eemian, it was only about 1 degree C warmer than today (a level we are approaching rapidly)-- and yet sea levels were tens of meters higher than now.

«In the last warm interval on Earth (called the Eemian), global temperatures were likely only +0.2 or +0.3 degrees Celsius warmer than today (+1 degrees maximum), and sea level was +5 to +9 meters higher.

The growing conditions are very specific and it will only thrive in the glaciated slopes of the Andes with a prime elevation of 12,000 to 15,000 feet above sea level.

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.

Yeah, «the cancer risk posed by hijiki consumption exceeds... acceptable» cancer risk levels by an order of magnitude, but the Japanese Ministry of Health stresses the potential «health benefits,» lots of «fiber and minerals,» as if hijiki was the only weed in the sea.

We only use a premium maca that is organically grown in a region totally untouched by modern chemical farming techniques or polluting industrial activity: the pristine Junin valley of the Andes mountains, 14,500 feet above sea level.

Unfortunately, regular medical tests of B12 levels in the blood can be often inaccurate not only because of wrong norms, which are way too low, but also due to many different possible factors such as high blood levels of folic acid, presence of pseudo forms of B12 (analogues) in the blood (from dietary sources such as spirulina, nori, sea vegetables, etc.) as they can give a falsely high reading of B12 in the blood.