Sentences with phrase «when sea level fell»

Eventually, the Neandertals made it back, when sea level fell again.

«When sea level falls, ground water levels increase,» said Li.

2) When sea level falls sufficiently, the Alaskan islands form a barrier to water movement and other lands (e.g., SE Asia) and emergent continental shelves alter water flow.

Not exact matches

When Greenland melts, places as far away as Norway and Scotland could actually see the sea level fall by as much as 50 meters.

In Australia, aboriginal stories recall even longer connections to their lands, even seeming to refer to times when sea levels rose and fell more than 15,000 years ago.

When the scientists corrected for this La Niña effect on rain patterns in the past decade, they found that the slowdown in sea - level rise disappeared and fell in line with the 1994 - 2002 pace, coming to about 3.3 millimeters a year.

They maintain that the first Americans were the Clovis people, who crossed into the New World from Asia when a fall in sea levels at the height of the last Ice Age created a land bridge, known as Beringia, between the two continents.

Unsurprisingly the biggest seasonal effects on sea level came during the fall and winter months, when El Niño events typically reach their peak.

When add in a environment like the top of Everest where the atmospheric pressure and inspired oxygen pressure fall roughly... 30 % of the sea level value at 8900 m which is the height of the summit of Everest.

When you discuss possible sea level rise, it's only fair to refer to the prevailing uncertainties e.g. in water cycle, whether sea levels will rise or FALL.

So, we might expect that when this pressure increases, sea levels slightly fall, and vice versa.

The only problem with all the predictions about the level of the World Ocean rising is that, the World Ocean is refusing to rise up in support of the predictions, the other problem is that ice is frozen fresh water and frozen fresh water only covers about 5 % of this planet above sea level and frozen water under the level of the World Ocean does not count as the World Ocean will fall a small amount if that ice melts, so if the ice there is enough to get the World Ocean to rise and significant amount then it must be piled up very high, I cubic kilometer of water as ice, should it melt, would make 1000 square kilometers rise by one meter, so when you use this simple math then somewhere on the planet, above the level of the sea, then there must be over 500,000 cubic kilometers of ice, piled up and just waiting to melt, strange that no one can find that amount of ice, all these morons who talk about the rise of the World Ocean in tens of meters, this includes you Peter Garrett or Mr. 7 Meters, the ice does not exist to allow this amount of rise in the World Ocean, it is just not there.

Improved observational data suggest during more frequent La Nina years a greater proportion of precipitation falls on the land globally and when routed through more slowly discharging aquifers, sea level rise decelerates.

Blith, when local sea levels have not risen and in some places actually fallen since 1950, regardless of the hydrology, then please explain how SLR can possibly have accelerated?

When more rain / snow falls on land, sea level declines.

If this happens during northern winter, surface pressure falls in the Arctic (rising AO) the night jet stalls, NOx injection falls away, stratospheric ozone levels increase, the coupled circulation is invigorated and pressure falls at 50 - 60 ° north and this is associated with cloud loss (when global cloud cover is at its maximum value) and a strong rise in global sea surface temperature.

when the arctic is open the sea level falls, it don't rise again until earth cools and the snow stops falling.

5) Contradictions due to limitations of technology (e.g., trying to measure sea level rise in mm when the ocean surface is never still or measure Antarctic ice mass in a region with constantly changing surfaces due to snowfall and rising and falling regions).

The first is a satellite record showing that the sea level has actually fallen four inches around Tuvalu since 1993 when the hundred - million dollar international TOPEX / POSEIDON satellite project record began.

the seas will rise and we'll all be drowned» or «we all will fry» when these assumptions are not established yet.We do not yet know what we are heading for and far too little practical experiments have been done on this.I know that if i place a dish of water into a greenhouse the water will rise initially because of thermal expansion but then it will evaporate and cloud up the greenhouse and the level in the dish will fall even if i keep topping it up.To take any action to cool the greenhouse then would precipitate the clouded greenhouse and cause a flood of condensation.Better to learn to adapt than try to turn the clock back to the 1900's.