Sentences with phrase «spring tide level»

The pneumatophores stick up above the mud bottom to an inch or so above the average spring tide level (highest monthly tide) and have lenticels on their tips for breathing.

Not exact matches

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.

«You amplify the effect of sea - level rise during times of storms and spring tides,» Eberli said.

Grant's study this past spring noted that pollution levels at Huntington Beach were consistently higher at high tide, and rain has long been considered a good predictor of troubled ocean waters.

People who claim we can stop worrying about global warming on the basis of a cooler year or a cooler decade — or just on questionable predictions of cooling — are as naive as a child mistaking a falling tide, or a spring low tide, for a real long - term fall in sea level.

sea level with a solar spring tide phase and vice versa, over a couple of years.

Given a geological sea - level marker it is usually difficult to know if it corresponds to mean sea - level, high tide, low tide, spring tide, winter tide, is it a storm feature, the result of a tsunami, was the tidal range the same.

This is a good use of money to respond to slightly rising sea levels, but mostly to occasional surges from spring tides, storm surges, etc, WEATHER.

But practical measures ARE ipos facto a good use of money to respond to slightly rising sea levels, but in fact mostly to occasional surges from spring tides, storm surges — WEATHER.

He was responsible for launching the Spring Tide product line in Europe and managing customer engagements at the corporate level, and later helped Alcatel - Lucent integrate the Spring Tide product line into Lucent's IP Centrex business after their acquisition.