Sentences with phrase «while mean sea level»

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While the ideas are by no means earth shattering, they are fundamental to driving the kind of sea - level change needed at Uber:

No means of telling while we remain at sea - level: the waves hide the horizon.

But the lost ice also means lost gravity — and so sea levels in the immediate vicinity of the ice sheets actually drop, while ocean levels half a world away are goosed.

In some regions, rates are up to several times the global mean rise, while in other regions sea level is falling.

Paleontological records indicate that global mean sea level is highly sensitive to temperature (7) and that ice sheets, the most important contributors to large - magnitude sea - level change, can respond to warming on century time scales (8), while models suggest ice sheets require millennia to approach equilibrium (9).

A classic case in point was the discovery that field observations of the loss of arctic sea ice showed that by 2007 it had advanced to a level predicted by the mean of models of that loss as occurring in the 2100s, while that mean was used as the consensus projection in AR4.

Scientists: Warming causes Antarctic ice sheet growth, and lower sea levels By Kenneth Richard While many scientists are projecting rapid sea level rise as a result of a warmer Antarctica and consequent ice sheet melting, other scientists are projecting that the surface of the Antarctic ice sheet will gain in mass because a warmer Antarctica means snow and ice accumulation will outpace the -LSB-...]

The worst - case result is that mean ocean oxygen concentration falls to a low of about 68 % of pre-industrial levels in the next few millennia, while low - oxygen «dead zones» — which don't support fish or many other marine animals such as crabs and clams — spread nearly six-fold to cover 12.8 % of the sea surface area.

While that's a small number, «Small changes in sea levels in certain places mean very big changes in the kind of protection of infrastructure that you need to have in place,» said Erik Ivins, a geophysicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California and one of the contributors to Thursday's study.

The Dutch Ministry of Transport uses the figure 60 % (below high water level during storms), while others use 30 % (below mean sea level).