Sentences with phrase «water intrusion event»
Lowest pH (7.8) and highest pCO2 (658.3 µatm) values measured during a cold - water intrusion event in the non-upwelling season were similar to those minimum values reported from upwelling season (pH = 7.8, pCO2 = 643.5 µatm), unveiling that natural acidification also occurs sporadically in the non-upwelling season.
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Rising sea - levels — particularly when combined with storm events — are just one of several factors that could endanger the integrity of the Delta's 1,100 miles of earthen levees, which protect the state's water supply and the region's agricultural, transportation, and energy systems from flooding and saltwater intrusion.35 Earthquakes, land subsidence, and floods present serious threats to the aging levees as well.
Safety The Leaf's high - voltage battery pack is designed to disconnect in the event of an airbag deployment or water intrusion.
Report on the workshop on the development of early warning systems and contingency plans in relation to extreme weather events and their effects such as desertification, drought, floods, landslides, storm surge, soil erosion, and saline water intrusion.
Another example are the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) who are simultaneously facing extreme events such as typhoons, extreme storms and sea level rise that threatens to literally sink their islands, ocean acidification and warming which threaten their marine life and fisheries, and salt water intrusion into their fresh water sources and agricultural land.
A warm band of relatively constant temperature (18 - 22 °C) and salinity (36.0 - 36.2 psu) is observed near the bottom year - round just inshore of the shelf break, bounded by seasonally variable waters on the inshore side, and by fluctuating waters subject to cool - water upwelling events and warm Gulf Stream intrusions on the offshore side.
Other problems are likely to include an increase in extreme weather events such as droughts and floods, and an increase in salt - water intrusion into fresh water supplies.