Sentences with phrase «study is sea level rise»

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In this study, the effects of sea level rise (assumed to continue at present, at the time of the study, rates, which the authors noted was likely conservative), wave fetch, wind speed and direction were examined and the resultant erosion rate was estimated for the Western and Eastern shore of Uppands, Port Isobel and Tangier Island by selecting 10 points along the western and eastern shoreline of all the islands.

«There's a lot of ambiguity in post-2050 projections of sea - level rise and we may have to live with that for a while,» said Robert E. Kopp, the study's lead author and a professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Rutgers.

Kopp is also a co-author of another study, led by Tufts University researcher Klaus Bittermann and published today in Environmental Research Letters, assessing the sea - level rise benefits of achieving the Paris Agreement's more ambitious 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) temperature target rather than its headline 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) target.

Published this week in Nature Climate Change, the initial study finds that embankments constructed since the 1960s are primarily to blame for lower land elevations along the Ganges - Brahmaputra River Delta, with some areas experiencing more than twice the rate of the most worrisome sea - level rise projections from the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

But the USGS study notes that vertical coral accretion is an order of magnitude smaller than expected sea - level rise through 2100.

A large area of the Greenland ice sheet once considered stable is actually shedding massive amounts of ice, suggesting that future sea - level rise may be worse than expected, a team of scientists warned yesterday in a new study.

«They are at the center of the storm for sea - level rise,» said UM Rosenstiel School Professor Gregor Eberli, a senior author on the study published in Scientific Reports.

«Our study illustrates that the complexity of climate change, adaptation, and flood damage can be disentangled by surprisingly simple mathematical functions to provide estimates of the average annual costs of sea - level rise over a longer time period.»

The researchers chose their range of sea level — rise projections based on what is most likely to happen to the west coast, according to dozens of regional and global studies.

The new approach contrasts with previous ways scientists analyzed and came to conclusions about sea level rise because it is «the only proper one that aims to fully account for uncertainty using statistical methods,» noted Parnell, principal investigator of the study conducted collaboratively with researchers at Tufts University, Rutgers University and Nanyang Technological University.

«At one level, it just reinforces a point that we already knew: that the effects of climate change and sea level rise are irreversible and going to be with us for thousands of years,» says Williams, who did not work on the study.

While a slowdown of circulation in the North Atlantic can further exacerbate sea level rise in the northeast, it does not explain the accelerations observed in the southeast, and was not required to explain the hot spots observed in the northeast, according to the study.

The report provides a range of possible scenarios, from at least 1 foot of global sea - level rise by 2100 to a worst - case rise that's 1.6 feet higher than a scenario in a key 2012 study that the report updates.

«It's definitely a major new area of study because we think it's so key to this question of how much sea level rise we're going to get in the next hundred years, or 500 years.»

The takeaway is that if humanity stopped cranking out greenhouse gases immediately, sea levels would still rise for centuries before the heat dissipates through Earth's atmosphere and into space, says study co-author Susan Solomon, an atmospheric scientist at MIT.

Geologist Torbjörn Törnqvist of Tulane University, a co-author of the study, said that given accelerating rates of sea level rise, losses will likely continue long into the future, and that even the best - designed river diversions won't be able to prevent more land loss.

«If we went all out to slow the warming trend, we might stall sea level rise at three to six feet,» says Robert Buddemeier of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, who is studying the impact of sea - level rise on coral reefs, «But that's the very best you could hope for.»

In comparison, global sea levels are rising by about 3 millimetres a year, and a recent study estimated that one - third of that comes from ice loss in Antarctica and Greenland.

The Urban Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, is completing a study for the Environmental Protection Agency on what a three - foot sea level rise would do to Miami.Miami is particularly vulnerable.

DeConto and Pollard's study was motivated by reconstructions of sea level rise during past warm periods including the previous inter-glacial (around 125,000 years ago) and earlier warm intervals like the Pliocene (around 3 million years ago).

A new study from climate scientists Robert DeConto at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and David Pollard at Pennsylvania State University suggests that the most recent estimates by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for future sea - level rise over the next 100 years could be too low by almost a factor of two.

«As an archaeologist who studies Arctic and Subarctic coastal peoples, erosion associated with intense storm activity, loss of permafrost, rising sea levels, and increasing human activity is devastating to comprehend; however, this study not only documents those processes, but provides a means to examine their highly variable impacts that, hopefully, can lead to constructive ways to prioritize research and mitigate destructive processes in this extremely important region.»

A new study found that vulnerability of deep - sea biodiversity to climate change's triple threat — rising water temperatures, and decreased oxygen, and pH levels — is not uniform across the world's oceans.

«Greenland is probably going to contribute more and faster to sea level rise than predicted by current models,» said Eric Rignot, a glaciologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who studied the glacial flow in a paper in Science last year.

A new study suggests that sea levels aren't just rising; they're gaining ground faster than ever.

«The influence of rising oceans is even greater than the overall amount of sea level rise because of storm surge, erosion and inundation,» said Carlson, who studies the interaction of ice sheets, oceans and the climate system on centennial time scales.

Heavy toll, weak preparation, low awareness The results of this research have come as a growing body of studies show that Asian countries are among the most vulnerable to sea - level rise and related hazards.

In the latest 161 - page document, dated March 9, EPA officials include several new studies highlighting how a warming planet is likely to mean more intense U.S. heat waves and hurricanes, shifting migration patterns for plants and wildlife, and the possibility of up to a foot of global sea level rise in the next century.

But if there's any good news, it's that the new study also indicates that future climate dynamics may drive Atlantic hurricanes farther offshore, potentially preventing the deadly compounding of sea level rise with storm surge increases, and possibly sparing New York City fewer Sandy - style direct hits.

Researchers are studying the ocean's carbon dynamics to improve predictions for sea level and temperature rise

In April, the American Geophysical Union released a study finding that the chance of storm - pushed water topping the Manhattan seawall is 20 times greater than 170 years ago, because of tide increases on top of sea - level rise.

«Sea level rise itself is a very big hazard, before you start to look at tropical cyclones,» says Andra Garner of Rutgers University, New Jersey, part of a team behind the study.

«Our primary question is how the Amundsen Sea sector of West Antarctica will contribute to sea level rise in the future, particularly following our observations of massive changes in the area over the last two decades,» said UCI's Bernd Scheuchl, lead author on the first of the two studies, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters in AuguSea sector of West Antarctica will contribute to sea level rise in the future, particularly following our observations of massive changes in the area over the last two decades,» said UCI's Bernd Scheuchl, lead author on the first of the two studies, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters in Augusea level rise in the future, particularly following our observations of massive changes in the area over the last two decades,» said UCI's Bernd Scheuchl, lead author on the first of the two studies, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters in August.

Several recent studies strongly suggest that sea levels will rise substantially until the end of the century, with estimates ranging from 0.5 m to 2.3 m increase.

«What's amazing is that this is a short flight away from Washington DC, so it's right in our backyard,» says David Schulte of the US Army Corps of Engineers in Norfolk, Virginia, who led a study into how rising sea levels will affect Tangier Island and its neighbours in Chesapeake Bay.

But the rapid retreat seen in the past 40 years means that in the coming decades, sea - level rise will likely exceed this century's sea - level rise projections of 3 feet (90 centimeters) by 2100, issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said Sridhar Anandakrishnan, a glaciologist at Pennsylvania State University, who was not involved in the study.

Even if we could freeze - frame the atmosphere as it is today, sea levels would still rise by 25 metres, says the latest study into the effects of climate change on melting ice sheets.

Greenhouse gases are already having an accelerating effect on sea level rise, but the impact has so far been masked by the cataclysmic 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, according to a new study led by the...

Researchers at the site are studying the interaction of freshwater restoration efforts, sea - level rise and water management decisions.

The sea level rise off the U.S. Atlantic shoreline is rising faster than any time in the past 2,000 years, according to a new study published this week.

In the first comprehensive satellite study of its kind, a University of Colorado at Boulder - led team used NASA data to calculate how much Earth's melting land ice is adding to global sea level rise.

Miami Beach in particular has become a poster child for the effects of climate change, with some studies making grim predictions of a 5 feet of sea level rise by the end of the century and others suggesting that up to $ 23 billion of existing property statewide could be underwater by 2050.

Professor Steffen, who has studied the Arctic ice for the past 35 years, told me: «I would predict sea level rise by 2100 in the order of one metre; it could be 1.2 m or 0.9 m.

The study suggests that if sea levels continue to rise at the present rate, the islands will be lost within 100 years, and will have to be abandoned by the local population in approximately 50 years.

This study, he added, is a good step toward piecing all those bits of information together to get a fuller picture of what future sea level rise holds in store.

Those planning how to protect their communities from sea level rise need to know the full range they could face, Hamlington and Church, who was not involved with the study, said.

«The full sea - level rise would ultimately be up to 80 times bigger than the initial melting of the ice cork,» says the study's co-author, Anders Levermann.

A new study confirms that this was not Floridians» imaginations: From 2011 to at least 2015, the rate of sea level rise across the southeastern US shot up by a factor of six, from 3 - 4 millimeters a year to 20, and a combination of oceanic and atmospheric processes seem to be responsible.

«These are two of the largest and most rapidly changing glaciers in Antarctica, so the potential for their evolution to influence each other is important to consider in modeling ice sheet behavior and projecting future sea level rise,» Dustin Schroeder, a Stanford geophysicist who led the study, told Earther.

While more research is needed to be sure of what caused this sea level «hot spot,» the study reminds us that the oceans aren't rising evenly, in space or time.