Sentences with phrase «sea at high tide»

About 3.7 million Americans live within just a few feet of the sea at high tide, putting them at even more extreme risk for coastal flooding.

The sea at high tide deposits drifting seaweed on the beach.

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Inadequate flood protection infrastructure, which right now might not contain high tides in El Nino years; Lack of action on annual sediment removal from spring freshets, which each year move over 30 million m3 of sediment and leave about 3 million m3 of silt in the navigation and secondary channels of the lower reaches; and, By the end of this century sea levels at the mouth of the river could potentially rise more than one meter due to climate change overtopping the diking system.

At the base of the world's highest sea cliffs, the Belgian missionary spent sixteen years ministering to exiled lepers quarantined on the inaccessible peninsula, bringing order and peace to a lawless and lonely leper colony; his reputation outside of Kalaupapa since his death from leprosy in 1889 has risen and fallen in changing tides of adulation and conflict.

Several countries had already set up coastal tide gauges — essentially, a float attached to a pen that traced a line on a chart — and were calculating mean sea level, defined as the average of sea level measured at regular intervals between high and low tide.

«The beach above high tide will be lost to erosion with approximately 1 to 2 ft of sea - level rise, at which point beach erosion and coastal storms will threaten sea wall integrity,» the report said.

High tide hits the base of sea wall at their house about 40 percent of the time, he said.

Police inspectors soon realize that the epicenter of these mysterious disappearances must be Slack Bay, where the Slack River and the sea join at high tide and a small community of fishermen and oyster farmers live — among them, the Bréfort ferrymen, led by a patriarch nicknamed «The Eternal.»

Stay to photograph the shrine's iconic vermillion torii (wooden gateway) at high tide, when the torii and parts of the shrine appear to float on the sea.

In Bang Bao's northern corner, most of the sand disappears at high tide in front of To the Sea, The Beach Natural and Koh Kood Resort, all midrange spots built close together on the hillside.

Year round the turtles will ride in at dark, during high tide, deposit their eggs in the sand, and head back out to sea.

The sea is generally fairly shallow here - at high tide it can cover the beach and at low tide it almost seems to disappear.

You can swim in the sea but be aware that the currents can be strong and at high tide the sea comes right up to the walls of the hotel swimming pool.

On the beach, we notice that the sea is far away and leaves a large patch of sand once covered at high tide exposed.

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At high tide, the sculpture will be completely submerged beneath the sea.

The site in Margate is part of Thanet's coastal path which is the longest in the UK; at high tide the sculpture is completely submerged beneath the sea.

At high tide, the sculpture is completely submerged beneath the sea.

I read somewhere recently that some people in Florida now wade across their front yards at high tide, but they still say sea level is not rising.

The sea looked so pristine and clear, but at high tide, all the filth from the river washes straight into the sea polluting it for miles around,» he added.

The Metro East coast regional study that was done as part of the US National Assessment brought to light the expected tidal surge height for NY City in the event of a category 3 hurricane at high tide — and it is over 20 feet — without sea level rise.

The impacts of sea level rise, in the form of higher storm surges and increasingly common flooding at times of astronomical high tides, are already causing damage in the U.S. and worldwide.

Examining the graphic on storm surge (below) posted by one of Trenberth's colleagues at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, we clearly see how extreme high water events since 1900 are broken down into contributions from storm surge, high tides and a century of sea level rise.

High tides linked to the full moon since the weekend caused minor flooding from Florida to New England, underscoring the need for improved coastal infrastructure at a time of faster rising seas.

e) Oceans are expanding [and sea levels are rising] Tide gauge records show that sea level has been rising slowly since the 19th century (and even earlier), at a slightly higher rate in the first half of the 20th century (~ 2.0 mm / year ave.) compared to the second half (~ 1.4 mm / year).

The sea levels are rising, encroaching up the coast and making storm surges more destructive (especially at high tide, as happened with Sandy).

According to research by Ben Strauss, a climate change and sea level rise expert at Climate Central, an independent research and news organization, there are approximately $ 156 billion worth of property and 300,000 homes less than three feet above the high tide line in Florida.

European ports and estuary cities are at risk with projections of sea level rise of half a metre, and US coastal cities could one day face almost daily challenges at high tide.

And the front page New York Times story based on the study notes that 3.7 million Americans — that's how many live within mere feet of high tides — are now at risk from increasing coastal flooding, thanks to rising sea levels.

Sea level rise due to global warming has already doubled the annual risk of coastal flooding of historic proportions across widespread areas of the United States... By 2030, many locations are likely to see storm surges combining with sea level rise to raise waters at least 4 feet above the local high - tide liSea level rise due to global warming has already doubled the annual risk of coastal flooding of historic proportions across widespread areas of the United States... By 2030, many locations are likely to see storm surges combining with sea level rise to raise waters at least 4 feet above the local high - tide lisea level rise to raise waters at least 4 feet above the local high - tide line.

I've got 18 feet, most of it is at or just above sea level (mean high tide) that's all I've got, and we've been into beach erosion now for almost 10 years, whereas things have been fairly static previously since the 30's.

If greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase at their present rate, then, in Antarctica alone, enough ice will have run into the sea by the end of the century to raise the high tide mark worldwide by a metre.