Sentences with phrase «related sea level increases»

Even without epic storms, Horton said climate - related sea level increases can cause massive problems for coastal areas because it increases frequent flooding, which causes erosion, contaminates drinking water supplies and aquifers, damages farmland and decreases habitat for fisheries, wildlife and plants.

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The issue adds to a growing list of aviation - related problems because of global warming, including increased turbulence, stronger headwinds and swamped airport runways due to rising sea levels, he said.

«We conclude that coastal communities are facing a looming crisis due to climate change related sea - level rise, one that will manifest itself as increased frequency of Sandy - like inundation disasters in the coming decades along the mid-Atlantic and elsewhere, from storms with less intensity and lower storm surge than Sandy,» Sweet said.

The field of urban planning is gaining interest as cities around the world, including nearby Houston, are facing increased exposure to weather - related risks and hazards ranging from sea level rise and flooding to temperature build - up and urban heat island effect.

Additionally, sea level rise driven by climate warming combined with coastal subsidence related to human activities increased the storm surge while urban development such as paving over grasslands and prairies are likely to have exacerbated flooding.

There also seemed to be some El Niño effect on sea levels off the Southeast coast, which Hamlington said could be due to increased storminess and related storm surge.

The physics part is that to first order, you expect the rate of continental ice melt to increase with temperature, and also the rate at which heat penetrates into the ocean below the mixed layer (for the mixed layer indeed we use a term relating temperature to sea level, not its rate of rise).

Confidence in the latter is not related to TC intensity or frequency; it comes from the probable increase in heavy rain events and the inevitable rise in sea level that will make it easier for storm surges to go inland.

I certainly agree that continued warming will increase the frequency of a variety of extremes related to heat, sea level, precipitation, etc. and in fact, some of that is already happening.

• Dynamical processes related to ice flow not included in current models but suggested by recent observations could increase the vulnerability of the ice sheets to warming, increasing future sea level rise.

Ocean heat content increases (and the closely related sea level rise) is a far better long - term proxy for energy in the climate system.

For some places, like French Polynesia, increased dryness could compound climate - related threats such as sea level rise.

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From sea level rise to increased drought and flooding across the country and the world, proper defense planning must include considerations related to climate change impacts.

The vulnerability of the ice sheets to warming could be increased by dynamical processes related to ice flow (not included in current models but suggested by recent observations) thereby increasing future sea level rise.

In addition the problems related to the increase in sea levels, including the disappearance of numerous island states as well as the increase in the risk of flooding, with all the suffering and population movements they imply.

Twentieth century global sea level, as determined from tide gauges in coastal harbors, has been increasing by 1.7 - 1.8 mm / yr, apparently related to the recent climatic warming trend.

The increased west winds are related to lower sea level pressure at high latitudes, with greater sea level pressure in mid-latitudes.

A reconciled sea level budget, based on observations by Argo project, altimeter and gravity satellites, reveals that the true GMSL rise has been masked by ENSO - related fluctuations and its rate has increased since 2010.

New work on regional projections and emergence of the anthropogenic signal suggests that the two commonly predicted features of future regional sea level change (the increasing tilt across the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and the dipole in the North Atlantic) are related to regional changes in wind stress and surface heat flux.

Slow onset events are mentioned in the Cancun Agreements with a footnote saying that these are events «including sea level rise, increasing temperatures, glacial retreat and related impacts, salinization, land and forest degradation, loss of biodiversity, and desertification».

Nothing bad (tornadoes, droughts, floods, hurricanes, sea level rise, the epizootic that decimated the stands of American chestnuts, the distemper epizootics in seals and African lions) has been consistently related to CO2 increase.

But there are two climate - related issues that we need to consider now: rising sea level (which is already affecting the magnitude of storm surges, which in practice do much of the damage in hurricanes and other coastal storms), and projections that the incidence of very intense hurricanes should increase in the 100 - year time scale.

By trapping the earth's heat in the atmosphere, greenhouse gases lead to warmer temperatures and all the hallmarks of climate change: rising sea levels, more extreme weather, heat - related deaths, and increasing transmission of infectious diseases like Lyme.

Rates are found to be approximately 1 mm yr − 1 in excess of those expected for the present day based on geological information, providing evidence for a climate - change related component of the increase in UK sea level.

Dynamical processes related to ice flow — which are not included in current models but suggested by recent observations — could increase the vulnerability of the ice sheets to warming, increasing future sea level rise.

The observed effects of cryosphere reduction include modification of river regimes due to enhanced glacial melt, snowmelt advance and enhanced winter base flow; formation of thermokarst terrain and disappearance of surface lakes in thawing permafrost; decrease in potential travel days of vehicles over frozen roads in the Arctic; enhanced potential for glacier hazards and slope instability due to mechanical weakening driven by ice and permafrost melting; regional ocean freshening; sea - level rise due to glacier and ice sheet shrinkage; biotic colonisation and faunal changes in deglaciated terrain; changes in freshwater and marine ecosystems affected by lake - ice and sea - ice reduction; changes in livelihoods; reduced tourism activities related to skiing, ice climbing and scenic activities in cryospheric areas affected by degradation; and increased ease of ship transportation in the Arctic.