Sentences with phrase «tide level of»

This enabled the NOAA tide gauge at this site to report a maximum storm tide level of 3.88 feet above NAVD88 datum.

The kilns were built for salt production some 300 years ago, just above the winter high - tide level of the time.

Not exact matches

A rising tide This sea change on the state level reflects a rising tide of enthusiasm for legal marijuana.

The sea is likely to rise steadily up to a level well above the normal tide, with damaging waves and flooding of some low - lying but g areas, which could also extend some way inland,» the Bureau of Meteorology said.

Trump was right in pointing out that it will take all of us working together at a local level to reverse the tides of opioid addiction.

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.

Tide currently has their second highest ad awareness level since the end of August 2016, a mark still very close to what it was after the most recent Super Bowl.

Thirty - three percent (33 %) of adults 18 and over say they've seen a Tide ad in the last 30 days, just one percentage point short of post-Super Bowl levels.

According to storm surge expert Dr. Hal Needham, Hurricane Donna also brought a storm tide of 4 - 8 feet in Biscayne Bay, just south of Miami, and we can expect that Irma might bring similar water levels.

The prospects for the rapid development of new education, research, and treatment resources throughout the country were brightened in 1966 by a rising tide of interest on the national level.

But it is hard to see how a man who has been given a mandate from on High to spread tidings of joy to all mankind can be seriously interested in taking up a collection to pay his salary; it causes one to suspect that the shaman is on the moral level of any other con man.

The cosmic tide may at one time have seemed to be immobilized, lost in the vast reservoir of living forms; but through the ages the level of consciousness was steadily rising behind the barrier, until finally, by means of the human brain (the most «centro - complex» organism yet achieved to our knowledge in the universe) there has occurred, at a first ending of time, the breaking of the dykes, followed by what is now in progress, the flooding of Thought over the entire surface of the biosphere.

Any reasonable educated ones among these levels that differ in mentality, morals, ethics than others, would not be able to stand up against any waves and tides of corruption's and jungle laws, therefore are left out speechless with fears

«An improved labelling system would have the additional benefit of enabling Australian growers to compete on a level playing field against the tide of cheap, inferior, and potentially dangerous imports.»

With the help of Mass Audubon and in partnership with the U.S. National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service, Everglades National Park, The Nature Conservancy, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, TIDE trained nine Belizean protected area managers to the advanced level of «burn boss,» giving them the necessary skills in prescribed fires in pine savannahs to prevent dangerous wildfires.

These figures would also offer grim tidings for Fine Gael, a party that would be at a similar level of decline, as Labour, relative to the 2011 General Election figures based on this opinion poll.

«To gauge what is at stake when corners are cut we need look no further than the cracked rails on the east coast mainline and the continuing tide of deaths on level crossings and out on the tracks.

Hudson River water levels at Poughkeepsie are expected to rise above normal tide levels during periods of high tide.

Like Westchester, New York state, under Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, has also attempted to stem the tide of synthetic weed, enacting multiple laws to ban compounds on the state level in 2012 and 2015.

Extreme sea levels are typically caused by a combination of high tides, storm surges, and in many cases waves, Wahl said.

Some are already seeing the consequences of rising sea levels in the form of higher tides.

They looked at hourly observations of sea level between 1948 and 2008, which confirmed that the number of extreme tides followed peaks in the solar cycle (Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, DOI: 10.1029 / 2009JD013114).

Sandy caused the storm tide at the Battery, at the southern tip of Manhattan, to reach its highest level — 14.06 feet — since the start of record keeping at the site.

The analysis, which used land elevation and tidal data, found that 460 acres, or about a sixth of Hallandale Beach, would be below sea level during high tide under a 3 - foot scenario of rise, according to Nancy Gassman, a natural resources administrator for Broward County's Natural Resources Planning and Management Division who worked on the assessment.

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

Another 2 to 7 feet of sea level rise is forecast this century, jeoparizing the homes and neighborhoods of the 5 million Americans who live less than 4 feet above high tide, as well as those of the hundreds of millions living along coastlines in other countries.

All told, if the eastern and western Antarctic ice shelves were to melt completely, they would raise sea levels by as much as 230 feet (70 meters); the collapse of smaller shelves like Larsen B has sped up the flow of glaciers behind them into the sea, contributing to the creeping up of high tide levels around the world.

Most Swedish universities have no career offices, and although career fairs where prospective employers and employees get together are common at the undergraduate level, they are a rare commodity for Ph.D. s. However, the success of a recent career event — «Future Faculty» — in Lund might be a turn in the tide.

Just how much energy would be absorbed and what the extent of damage could be done by rising sea levels and tsunamis or king tides is the subject of future research.

Even when there doesn't happen to be an overpass at surge time, the statistics of sea level that we got from more than 20 years of repeated altimetric observations in the area can still be combined with data from nearby tide gauges to improve the forecasts of the expected surge.»

Raw data collected from altimeters have been re-processed and collated with wind speed data from scatterometers and sea level measurements from tide gauges, to show the spatial structure of each storm.

The movement of water in the ocean is determined by many factors including tides; winds; surface waves; internal waves, those that propagate within the layers of the ocean; and differences in temperature, salinity or sea level height.

Certainly any strategy that seeks to improve life chances and equalise opportunities for children without turning the tide against growing levels of child poverty is going to face an uphill struggle and place an even greater burden on services that seek to alleviate various negative effects of inadequate family resources.

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.

«Model now capable of street - level storm - tide predictions.»

Now, a study led by Professor Harry Wang of William & Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science demonstrates the ability to predict a hurricane's storm tide at the level of individual neighborhoods and streets — a much finer scale than current operational methods.

VIMS Dean & Director John Wells calls the results of the team's sub-grid inundation model a «breakthrough» in storm - tide forecasting — with model output within 6 to 8 inches of the water levels recorded in New York City during Sandy by the U.S. Geological Survey.

The team combined a computer model with 100 years of observations to tease out the fact that global sea - level rise is increasing the tidal range, or the distance between the high and low tides, in many areas throughout each bay.

The 8 inches of sea level rise produced by global warming so far has worsened the tolls of storm surges, including those caused by Hurricane Sandy, and subjected coastal cities to high tide flooding of unprecedented frequency.

«Century of data shows sea - level rise shifting tides in Delaware, Chesapeake bays.»

For the first time, an international team has found evidence of how sea - level rise already is affecting high and low tides in both the Chesapeake and Delaware bays, two large estuaries of the eastern United States.

Researchers have shown that sea - level rise is changing patterns of the tides in the Delaware and Chesapeake bays.

Computer simulations show that a tidal power dam in the Bay of Fundy would raise tide levels as far away as Boston.

Adding one meter of sea - level rise to the model resulted in a distinct pattern of changes to the high and low tides throughout the Chesapeake Bay.

Several countries had already set up coastal tide gauges — essentially, a float attached to a pen that traced a line on a chart — and were calculating mean sea level, defined as the average of sea level measured at regular intervals between high and low tide.

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.

Or it could simply be an artifact of sea level records from tide gauges (pictured), which are particularly spotty in the early part of the 20th century.

«The beach above high tide will be lost to erosion with approximately 1 to 2 ft of sea - level rise, at which point beach erosion and coastal storms will threaten sea wall integrity,» the report said.

«The tide gauge measurements are essential for determining the uncertainty in the GMSL (global mean sea level) acceleration estimate,» said co-author Gary Mitchum, USF College of Marine Science.