Sentences with phrase «seawater expands»

and seawater expands as it warms.

As runoff from melting glaciers increases and warming seawater expands, sea level could rise as much as six feet, inundating low - lying coastal areas and islands.

In its latest report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of the United Nations projected that sea levels worldwide could rise up to two feet by 2100 as ice sheets eroded and warming seawater expanded.

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In every case the hagfish emerged unharmed while the predators fled the scene, gagging on the irritating slime that rapidly expands in seawater and clogs the gills.

In the meantime, all that extra stored heat will cause seawater to expand, raising sea levels, and altering the ecosystems that marine plants and animals have adapted to for eons.

It occurs when low atmospheric pressure causes the ocean surface to expand and because the hurricane's cyclonic winds blow seawater towards the eye.

Seawater is more complicated, not expanding much below about 5 °C but with the salt content becoming very important in determining whether water floats or sinks.

In the next century, mainly from melting glaciers and expanding seawater.

Such warming causes seawater to expand, contributing to sea level rise