Sentences with phrase «order of meters»

Neff's research helps us understand the health of massive glaciers with behavior we still don't fully understand but that lock up enough water to drive up global sea levels on the order of meters, not inches.
«We saw changes in pH on the order of meters and those small pH changes drove the patterns in reef accretion - erosion.»
For example, if ice sheet mass loss becomes rapid, it is conceivable that the cold fresh water added to the ocean could cause regional surface cooling [199], perhaps even at a point when sea level rise has only reached a level of the order of a meter [200].
Paleoclimate data for sea level change indicate that sea level changed at rates of the order of a meter per century [81]--[83], even at times when the forcings driving climate change were far weaker than the human - made forcing.
The societal relevance of rising seas is largely a function of the pace of change, not the ultimate height seas reach — which, as I've written for years — will assuredly be on the order of meters.
This is accompanied by his statement that he finds it «almost inconceivable that BAU climate change would not yield a sea level change of the order of meters on the century timescale.»
I puzzled over your statement that «sea level rises of the order of meters are pretty much locked in now».
For example, if ice sheet mass loss becomes rapid, it is conceivable that the cold fresh water added to the ocean could cause regional surface cooling [199], perhaps even at a point when sea level rise has only reached a level of the order of a meter [200].
Paleoclimate data for sea level change indicate that sea level changed at rates of the order of a meter per century [81]--[83], even at times when the forcings driving climate change were far weaker than the human - made forcing.
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