Sentences with phrase «where coastal change»

Nicholls [13] considered two scenarios of coastal population change in a scenario - based analysis of coastal flooding impacts for the 21st century: First a low - growth scenario, where coastal change was assumed to uniformly follow national change.

Not exact matches

The researchers are careful not to imply that phosphorus necessarily caused the chain reaction, but in sedimentary rock taken from coastal areas, the nutrient has marked the spot where that burst of life and climate change took off.

«Any related changes to positions where storms make landfall will have obvious effects on coastal residents and infrastructure.»

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.

«However, combined effects of nutrient loading and climate change are greatly increasing the number and size of «dead zones» in the open ocean and coastal waters, where oxygen is too low to support most marine life.»

Cuba's must - see cities are likely to change the fastest, including Trinidad (where time slips even farther back to the era of Spanish conquistadors and sugarcane plantations) and coastal Baracoa.

The vegetation changes to dry coastal forests where you will have a good chance of seeing echidnas and king parrots.

I know where I live, in the Pacific coastal fog belt, we're not experiencing much local change.

Fires in the West, droughts in the Southwest, melting snowpack in the Northwest, flooding and heavy rainfall in the Northeast, the much stronger coastal storms and hurricanes that we've seen in the Gulf: we've gotten to the point where we can all point to something that's happening and say: «This is what climate change is doing to our region.»

Sea - level changes are of special significance, not only for the low - lying atoll islands but for many high islands where settlements, infrastructure and facilities are concentrated in the coastal zone.

These concern damages to coastal infrastructure and low - lying ecosystems from continuing sea level rise, where damages would be widespread if sea level turns out to be at the upper end of current scenarios; and, threats to agricultural production in both far south - eastern and far south - western Australia, which would affect ecosystems and rural communities severely at the dry end of projected rainfall changes.

Back then, Palin was the governor of a state where «coastal erosion, thawing permafrost, retreating sea ice, record forest fires, and other changes are affecting, and will continue to affect, the lifestyles and livelihoods of Alaskans,» as she wrote (in a 2007 administrative order creating the state's Climate Change Sub-Cabinet).

However, the conditions predicted for the open ocean may not reflect the future conditions in the coastal zone, where many of these organisms live (Hendriks et al. 2010a, b; Hofmann et al. 2011; Kelly and Hofmann 2012), and results derived from changes in pH in coastal ecosystems often include processes other than OA, such as emissions from volcanic vents, eutrophication, upwelling and long - term changes in the geological cycle of CO2, which commonly involve simultaneous changes in other key factors affecting the performance of calcifiers, thereby confounding the response expected from OA by anthropogenic CO2 alone.

This new concept of anthropogenic impacts on seawater pH formulated here accommodates the broad range of mechanisms involved in the anthropogenic forcing of pH in coastal ecosystems, including changes in land use, nutrient inputs, ecosystem structure and net metabolism, and emissions of gases to the atmosphere affecting the carbon system and associated pH. The new paradigm is applicable across marine systems, from open - ocean and ocean - dominated coastal systems, where OA by anthropogenic CO2 is the dominant mechanism of anthropogenic impacts on marine pH, to coastal ecosystems where a range of natural and anthropogenic processes may operate to affect pH.

We propose here a new paradigm of anthropogenic impacts on seawater pH. This new paradigm provides a canonical approach towards integrating the multiple components of anthropogenic forcing that lead to changes in coastal pH. We believe that this paradigm, whilst accommodating that of OA by anthropogenic CO2, avoids the limitations the current OA paradigm faces to account for the dynamics of coastal ecosystems, where some ecosystems are not showing any acidification or basification trend whilst others show a much steeper acidification than expected for reasons entirely different from anthropogenic CO2 emissions.

Interactions between climate change and urbanisation: most notably in developing countries, where urbanisation is often focused in vulnerable areas (e.g., coastal), especially when mega-cities and rapidly growing mid-sized cities approach possible thresholds of sustainability (very high confidence).

The expected outputs range from integrating climate change risks into development planning and coastal zoning regulation to diversifying livelihoods to finding more secure sources of water in communities where saline intrusion is a problem (Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change through Coastal Afforestachange risks into development planning and coastal zoning regulation to diversifying livelihoods to finding more secure sources of water in communities where saline intrusion is a problem (Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change through Coastal AfforestaChange through Coastal Afforestation).

My own locality on the coastal plain of Virginia [where snow is an anomaly, for sure] saw a change over to brief heavy snow this evening, as adiabatic cooling did its dirty work.