Sentences with phrase «significantly higher sea»

However, subsequent research has predicted significantly higher sea level rise by 2100.

Not exact matches

Instead of weightlessness, the aquanaut would have to endure, among other things, artificial atmospheres with gaseous mixtures different from what we breathe on land, maintained at significantly higher pressures than those at sea level to match the water pressure at depth.

The researchers see particular need for action for high seas fisheries, including a significantly improved international coordination in determining and enforcing restrictive catch quotas.

The researchers can already simulate the complex interactions of sea waves that can lead to an anomalously high freak wave, but adding the motion of ships into the equation complicates matters significantly.

Gehrels and others (2008) comment that this is «a significantly higher rate of sea - level rise during the 20th century as compared with preceding centuries.»

But we do need to address the other other 50 % because last time CO2 levels were this high sea levels were significantly higher.

More recent reports of high pup production (up to 5000 pups) and increase in colonies size seem unlikely: given the scarce breeding outside of Sea Lion Island, we think that the whole population size may be significantly smaller.

The average sea temperature for Paris» closest coastal location in July is 16 °C — that's significantly higher than any of the previous months.

This is the first sea - level record from the southern hemisphere showing a significantly higher rate of sea - level rise during the 20th century as compared with preceding centuries.

(And actually, more; the mid-Cretaceous «super-Greenhouse» is evidence by sea - surface anomalies of up to 9 C. Not sure what just what GMST anomaly would be implied by that, but I'm guessing it would be significantly higher.

This is remarkable in a number of ways — first, these are the highest estimates of sea level rise by 2100 that has been published in the literature to date, and secondly, while they don't take into account the full uncertainty in other aspects of sea level rise considered by IPCC, their numbers are significantly higher in any case.

In 2007 we had a persistent high sitting over the Canadian Arctic, which contributed significantly to the export of sea ice out of the Arctic.

This decade - long satellite altimetry data set shows that since 1993, sea level has been rising at a rate of around 3 mm yr — 1, significantly higher than the average during the previous half century.

The temperature of the sea surface is also significantly higher, and likely different from the air temperature.

The last time the arctic was ice free, sea level was significantly higher.

If the melting accelerates, the increase in sea level could be significantly higher.

«Our results indicate that tropical sea surface temperatures were significantly higher than today during the Early Silurian period (443 — 423 Myr ago), when carbon dioxide concentrations are thought to have been relatively high, and were broadly similar to today during the Late Carboniferous period (314 — 300 Myr ago), when carbon dioxide concentrations are thought to have been similar to the present - day value.

Global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations have now passed 400 parts per million (ppm), a level that last occurred about 3 million years ago, when both global average temperature and sea level were significantly higher than today.

There are numerous medieval (or older) villages and towns along the Sussex coast, which would have been underwater had sea levels been significantly higher prior to the little ice age.

In addition, a combination of thinner sea ice initial conditions [Kwok and Rothrock 2009] and high surface temperature would significantly reduce arctic sea ice coverage.

A layperson can easily look up previous inter-glacial periods and see they ALL had higher temperatures, higher sea levels and a variety of CO2 levels (which had NO effect on global warming) ALL previous I - G periods became significantly warmer than our current average global temperatures, with sea levels ranging from 6mtrs to 12mtrs (20ft to 40ft) higher than today.

Including the effects of physical mechanisms that can quickly increase ice sheet discharge significantly raises sea level rise projections under high - emission scenarios.

The Climate Ready Boston report recommended the installation of a seven - foot - high deployable wall for the East Boston Greenway, which experiences regular nuisance flooding already, and is projected to be significantly affected by sea level rise in the coming decades.

Using this method, the projected global sea level rise by 2100 is significantly higher than the IPCC projections, between 75 and 190 cm (Figure 3).

During the Roman Warm Period ~ 2,000 years ago, sea levels were significantly higher than they are now.

Although the calculations of 18 - year rates of GMSL rise based on the different reconstruction methods disagree by as much as 2 mm mm yr - 1 before 1950 and on details of the variability (Figure 3.14), all do indicate 18 - year trends that were significantly higher than the 20th century average at certain times (1920 — 1950, 1990 — present) and lower at other periods (1910 — 1920, 1955 — 1980), likely related to multidecadal variability.The IPCC AR5 found that it is likely that a sea level rise rate comparable to that since 1993 occurred between 1920 and 1950.

This adjacent sea level infographic from a 2015 study published in the Science journal confirms that sea levels were significantly higher in the pre-history than our current levels.

The actual number of sea turtles killed in U.S. fisheries is likely significantly higher.»

Frank showed that ground based and satellite based temperatures over sea are very similar, while ground based measurements have a significantly higher trend over land.

Medical and Evacuation Medical and evacuation costs are significantly higher at sea.