Sentences with phrase «subsidence over»

Map showing model calculations of the global distribution of uplift and subsidence over the past 64 million years (indicated in meters).

Also, there has likely been an increase in subsidence over the tropical Atlantic due to an eastward shift of the Walker Circulation as waters have continued to warm in the central and eastern Pacific.

The Walker circulation refers to the mean (steady) ciculation where air over the warm pool in the western part of the tropical Pacific rises, being fed by the easterly surface trade winds across the Pacific, and subsidence over eastern Pacific.

Not exact matches

The best path» not the easiest, but the most idyllic» lies across a small waterfall created by a thick tangle of oak and Asian Tulip roots over a minor subsidence in the soil.

With conservative assumptions about sea level rise and the subsidence of the area, two diversion structures — large concrete sluices placed in the river embankment — would create about 700 square kilometers of land over 30 years, said Gary Parker of the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign.

In their study, the scientists show how the ice - filled subsidence bowl developed gradually over the course of six months to become eight by eleven kilometers wide and up to 65 meters deep.

The report also took the Corps to task for failing to keep track of the effects of subsidence: In New Orleans, the ground sinks over time.

Using subsidence stratigraphy, the team traced the different modes of coastal sedimentation over the course of time in the eastern Indian Ocean where relative sea - level change evolved from rapidly rising to static from 8,000 years ago to the present day.

Additionally, sea level rise driven by climate warming combined with coastal subsidence related to human activities increased the storm surge while urban development such as paving over grasslands and prairies are likely to have exacerbated flooding.

But they do at least have certain basic physical principles in their cloud representations — clouds over ice have less albedo effect than clouds over water, you don't get high clouds in regions of subsidence, stable boundary layers lead to marine stratus, etc..

The financial downturn has many individuals stressed over subsidence, and expansion rates appear to rise each other week.

These factors included: dredge and fill operations, shoreline development, over fishing, excessive boating, land subsidence and natural events like hurricanes.

The International Accountability Project reports that mining operations at Barapukuria have destroyed roughly 300 acres of land, impacting about 2,500 people in seven villages, as land subsidence of over one meter in depth has destroyed crops and lands and damaged homes.

Sea level rise attributable to climate change (some is due to coastal subsidence due to human disturbance e.g. oil drilling) is more than half a foot over the past few decades.

We show that the influx of water into the volume created by this subsidence produces a sea - level fall at locations distant from these margins — indeed over the major ocean basins — that is comparable in amplitude to the syphoning mechanism isolated by Mitrovica and Peltier (1991).»

Over half of the Chesapeake Bay region «sea level rise» is in fact caused by subsidence, which in turn has been caused by ground water abstraction.

Thousands of new water wells have been constructed on an emergency basis over the past year, and skyrocketing rates of groundwater pumping have led to rapid land subsidence in the San Joaquin Valley.

he new ACR methodology provides an incentive to landowners in the Sacramento - San Joaquin Delta, Suisun Marsh, and other historically natural wetland areas in California to convert their most subsided and marginal agricultural lands to wetlands or to produce wetlands crops such as rice, which will stop land subsidence and reverse it over time.»

Now, you do have things like isostatic rebound & subsidence, but those should tend to average out over a large enough number of tide gauges.

Subsidence inversions are common over the northern continents in winter and over the subtropical oceans; these regions generally have subsiding air because they are located under large high - pressure centres.

Although fluctuating sea level rises over the past several centuries have averaged about 7 inches, and continue to rise at that rate with no evidence of acceleration, land subsidence and hurricane risks are ever - present issues that must be taken into account.

Sections of the Delta - Mendota Canal, another critical water conveyance structure connecting the Delta to the heart of the San Joaquin Valley's farmland, have been damaged over the decades by subsidence, according to Hunt.

Analyses of areal variations in the subsidence and rebound occurring over stressed aquifer systems, in conjunction with measurements of the hydraulic head fluctuations causing these displacements, can yield valuable information about the compressibility and storage properties of the aquifer system.

So Perth sea levels haven't risen by up to 10 mm per year since 1993, they aren't rising three times faster than the global average, land subsidence indicates they've been closer to flat and possibly even fallen since 1993, and the leaked IPCC report confirms they've been as stable as global temperatures for well over a decade.

Something like this might be categorized as subsidence issues or other items you have no control over.