Sentences with phrase «unusual sea currents»

Not exact matches

These pups are survivors of California's current unusual mortality event (UME), which has left more than 3,000 starving sea lions along California's beaches this year alone.

I recall mention that Katrina was unusual because while crossing the Gulf «Ring Current» the deeper water pulled up by the hurricane was almost as warm as the sea surface, so the deeper water fed almost as much heat energy into the storm as the surface.

It also provides critical context for understanding whether current sea levels and rates of sea level rise are unusual.

Is this period long enough to assess whether the current sea level trend is unusual, and to what extent the decline is caused by humans?

And once again, there is nothing unusual in either current sea levels (they have been higher, not that long ago), or sea level rise rates (they are perfectly normal at any time scale) or current temperatures, or current temperature fluctuation rates.

The current rate of sea level rise is not unusual versus the late 1940's and early 50's, which is an era prior to the huge increase in consumer / industrial CO2 emissions.