Sentences with phrase «past decades sea»

Reconstruction of past decades sea level using thermosteric sea level, tide gauge, satellite altimetry and ocean reanalysis data.

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The report found, among other things, that 43 of the lower 48 U.S. states have set at least one monthly heat record since 2010, sea levels are expected to rise between one and four feet by the end of this century, winter storms have increased in intensity and frequency, and the past decade was warmer than every previous decade in every part of the country.

But as there is no way to tell if caviar is farmed or «wild», the new rules offer scant hope for sturgeon in the Caspian Sea, where overfishing has reduced their numbers by 90 per cent in the past two decades.

After all, plenty of young walruses die each year on the sea ice, and Pacific walruses have come ashore on Russian beaches in past decades during their fall migrations.

The shallow, salty seas spotted in 2004 evaporated from scientists» view of early Mars within a few years, but even so, the past decade's half - dozen martian missions have finally delivered.

In the Bering Sea off Alaska, the population of Chrysaora melanaster has jumped at least 10-fold over the past decade, reaching record numbers last year, reported biologist Richard Brodeur of the National Marine Fisheries Service in Newport, Oregon.

• In coastal Alaska, orcas are a prime suspect in the otherwise unexplained disappearance of 80 percent of Steller sea lions over the past three decades.

Over the past decade, that's about 3.5 inches of sea - level rise.

The number of loggerhead sea turtles nesting on the refuge has steadily increased in the past few decades, reaching 1,100 in 2014.

The sea lion population is healthy and robust, the new research found, and its recovery over the past several decades reflects an important success for the MMPA.

For the past decade, Markus Horning of the Marine Mammal Institute at Oregon State University has led a project to deploy specially designed «life history transmitters» into the abdomens of juvenile Steller sea lions.

But over the past decades, the melt season has grown longer and the average extent of Arctic sea ice has diminished, changing the game for many Arctic marine mammals — namely beluga, narwhal and bowhead whales; ringed, bearded, spotted, ribbon, harp and hooded seals; walruses; and polar bears.

Over the past two decades my company has used imaging radar satellites to map oil on the sea surface for 70 million square kilometres of ocean.

Antarctic sea ice levels have actually been increasing slightly over the past three decades, so this low is unusual.

A new review analyzing three decades of research on the historic effects of melting polar ice sheets found that global sea levels have risen at least six meters, or about 20 feet, above present levels on multiple occasions over the past three million years.

Scientists have decades of data documenting the bears, and Lentfer says that the bears» weights have been dropping over the past 25 years, indicating that they're having trouble hunting seals on sea ice.

Arctic warming has caused a rapid decline in sea ice cover during the past decade that could seriously affect everything from Arctic ecosystems to shipping and oil drilling.

A new study by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, and the University of California, Irvine, shows that while ice sheets and glaciers continue to melt, changes in weather and climate over the past decade have caused Earth's continents to soak up and store an extra 3.2 trillion tons of water in soils, lakes and underground aquifers, temporarily slowing the rate of sea level rise by about 20 percent.

Over the past decade paleontologists have unearthed a number of striking fossils from amphibious whalessuch as the bizarre - looking Ambulocetus, which moved easily between land and sea on well - developed limbsand wholly aquatic ones.

In addition, his own fieldwork, published last year, indicates that increased evaporation of the Indian Ocean caused by global warming has actually caused the sea level there to fall 30 centimeters in the past few decades.

But the rapid retreat seen in the past 40 years means that in the coming decades, sea - level rise will likely exceed this century's sea - level rise projections of 3 feet (90 centimeters) by 2100, issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said Sridhar Anandakrishnan, a glaciologist at Pennsylvania State University, who was not involved in the study.

The winter sea ice around Antarctica has grown slightly over the past few decades.

The extent of Arctic sea ice, which melts to its low each September, has steadily declined over the past three decades, as the chart below illustrates.

There is no way to know that for sure, but the revised sea - level numbers are consistent with the idea that the oceans are absorbing much of the lost heat in the past decade.

When the scientists corrected for this La Niña effect on rain patterns in the past decade, they found that the slowdown in sea - level rise disappeared and fell in line with the 1994 - 2002 pace, coming to about 3.3 millimeters a year.

Nieves said an example is the U.S. West Coast, where the phase of a multi-decadal ocean climate pattern called the Pacific Decadal Oscillation has helped keep sea level rise lower during the past two decades.

Over the past two decades, Greenland has seen its contribution to sea level rise increase.

Although less than 1 % of the sea floor where hydrothermal vents are suspected has been investigated, hundreds of hydrothermal vent fields have been identified around the globe in the past couple decades.

Picture this, Garner says: the prospects that the 500 - year - floods from past centuries could, with the boost from sea - level rise, become the projected five - year floods over just the next three decades.

The mean sea level referenced to these height systems has been decreasing over the past decades.

The minimum Arctic sea ice has declined by a little over half since its maximum extent of the past three decades.

That estimate was based in part on the fact that sea level is now rising 3.2 mm / yr (3.2 m / millennium)[57], an order of magnitude faster than the rate during the prior several thousand years, with rapid change of ice sheet mass balance over the past few decades [23] and Greenland and Antarctica now losing mass at accelerating rates [23]--[24].

Mori, M. et al. (2014) Robust Arctic sea - ice influence on the frequent Eurasian cold winters in past decades, Nature Geoscience, doi: 10.1038 / ngeo2277

Ocean coverage by floats reached 90 % by 2005 [66], with the gaps mainly in sea ice regions, yielding the potential for an accurate energy balance assessment, provided that several systematic measurement biases exposed in the past decade are minimized [67]--[69].

Over the past decade, they have seen a drop in the number of fishes in the sea.

The majority of the paintings were in fact recently created at sea, where Martin works as part of the deck crew on containerships; an occupation he has spent large portions of each year laboring in for the past decade and which has brought him to ports around the globe.

Future topics that will be discussed include: climate sensitivity, sea level rise, urban heat island - effects, the value of comprehensive climate models, ocean heat storage, and the warming trend over the past few decades.

In the past three decades, the sea ice September extent has declined 40 %.

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.)?

As a result, the sea ice volume at its annual minimum has declined 75 % over the past three decades.

It is important to note that although the sea ice has changed greatly in the past few decades, it has changed much less during the polar breeding season.

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The flow of Greenland's glaciers toward the sea may have increased significantly in the past decade, but a new report in Nature finds that rate of increase is unlikely to continue.

The past two weeks have not been good for the Arctic and climate change: First, scientists discover that permafrost holds more greenhouse gases than we thought; Second, sea ice melt - off is at its second greatest amount ever and could set a new record by summer's end; Third, new research confirms that the past decade has indeed been the warmest since the Romans occupied Britain, and the trend is for more warming.

This section focuses on global and regional sea level variations, over time spans ranging from the last decade to the past century; a brief discussion of sea level change in previous centuries is given in Section 5.5.2.4.

Mori, M. et al. (2014) Robust Arctic sea - ice influence on the frequent Eurasian cold winters in past decades, Nature Geoscience, doi: 10.1038 / ngeo2277

That would be twice in the past decade that the sea level did not rise from one year to the next.

The author notes that... «warming oceans account for about 35 — 40 % of that rate of sea level rise over the past two decades, according to the IPCC AR5».

Based on data from past climate changes, when sea level rose to +5 — 9 m, including the occurrence of extreme storms — during a time when temperatures were less than 1 ◦ C warmer than today, experts warn of similar consequences in coming decades.