Sentences with phrase «sea level fluctuations»

Nevertheless such variability induced by winds or currents may give a false impression of global sea level fluctuations in analyses of tide gauge data.

How can you ignore the cause of these previous sea level fluctuations?

These regional differences, observed by Topex / Poseidon since 1993, mostly reflect sea level fluctuations over several years., estimates of the rise in sea level - now running at 2.5 millimetres a year - have gained in accuracy.

Increases and decreases in glaciation during the Pennsylvanian resulted in sea level fluctuations that can be seen in the rocks as striped patterns of alternating shale and coal layers.

Eelco Rohling of the UK National Oceanography Centre at the University of Southampton and colleagues reconstructed sea level fluctuations over the last 520,000 years and compared this to global climate and carbon dioxide levels data for the same period.

A study of past sea level fluctuations provides a longer - term geologic context, which can help us better anticipate future trends.

1974 A.L. Bloom, et al., «Quaternary Sea Level Fluctuations on a Tectonic Coast: New 230th / 234u Dates from the Huon Peninsula, New Guinea.»

For the time interval during the LIG in which GMSL was above present, there is high confidence that the maximum 1000 - year average rate of GMSL rise associated with the sea level fluctuation exceeded 2 m kyr — 1 but that it did not exceed 7 m kyr — 1.

These models will help us to estimate groundwater characteristics (e.g., extent, salinity, residence time, and flow rates) and simulate changes in these characteristics due to sea level fluctuations.

Significant short - term (decades to century - scale) temperature and sea levels fluctuations (several degrees and many meters) during the last ice age (about 110 — 15 thousand years ago) imply great instability of the Greenland and west Antarctic ice sheets.

Likewise, «during the middle - Pliocene... we find sea level fluctuations of 20 - 40 metres associated with global temperature variations between today's temperature and +3 °C» (Hansen, Sato et al., 2013).