Sentences with phrase «with subsidence»

He was a member of the book team that produced the «Subsidence Handbook» in conjunction with the Subsidence Forum.

In the regions of the world where sea levels are rising, much of it has to do with subsidence, or the land sinking (i.e., New Orleans, U.S.).

Vice versa for those with subsidence.

Not exact matches

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.

With further subsidence, the soils will ultimately be salinized by salt groundwater and valuable agricultural land will be lost.

More recently, researchers started using an improved analysis on the microfossil data in Oregon, and were able to generate subsidence estimates with smaller errors.

Their refined results enabled modelers to produce earthquake models that are more consistent with observed subsidence measurements seen in today's instrumented earthquakes.

Padgett notes, «Previous investigations were able to provide estimates of subsidence with large errors, which are only so helpful to the modelers.»

With conservative assumptions about sea level rise and the subsidence of the area, two diversion structures — large concrete sluices placed in the river embankment — would create about 700 square kilometers of land over 30 years, said Gary Parker of the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign.

As a result, the entire northern portion of Honshu, Japan's largest island, moved about 1 meter toward the east, with one site near the temblor's epicentre sliding 5.4 meters horizontally and sinking 1.1 meters — a sudden subsidence that aggravated the damage from the tsunami that slammed the shore minutes later.

Solano - Rojas and his colleagues then correlated their maps of differential subsidence with the locations of reported track damage and accidents collected from local newspapers, YouTube, and Twitter.

Not all areas of high differential subsidence are associated with reported damage or accidents, the researchers found.

Studies have shown that coastal subsidence has been highest in some areas with the highest rates of extraction.

Additionally, sea level rise driven by climate warming combined with coastal subsidence related to human activities increased the storm surge while urban development such as paving over grasslands and prairies are likely to have exacerbated flooding.

There's a widescreen vibe to these tracks; with their patient, sometimes nearly imperceptible cycles of accretion and subsidence, they feel as much like landscapes as they do music.

Most insurers will offer «all risk» cover to buildings with perhaps the peril of subsidence being an optional extra.

The LA - 1 project in coastal Louisiana received a $ 66 million TIFIA loan in 2005 for the first phase of a plan to replace an existing highway in need of repair due to subsidence, erosion, and frequent storm damage with a new tolled limited - access elevated facility.

Mine subsidence insurance is required in active mining areas and in areas with known subsidence problems from past mining.

At the extreme end you have properties that are more of less a write off (being sold off my mortgage lenders and insurance companies for example, after fire damage, evidence of subsidence, etc) and for these properties you can't even get mortgages, so the only eligible buyers are the ones with enough cash not only to buy it but also deal with all the problems.

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Louis insisted on motion too, with one crucial difference: in his works, it's the colors themselves that are set in motion, especially so here, where no matter what distance you choose to view the work from there is a sparkle of gentle subsidence.

As Sally Brown makes clear in the article though, seawater infiltration, subsidence and a bunch of gritty geologic details associated with sea level rise are going to make civil engineering a nightmare.

In Bangladesh, subsidence can be much higher than GIA — with 10mm / yr being a local norm, rather than an extreme rate.

Working with forams in UK salt marshes, the big problem is the whole teasing apart of isostatic / eustatic influences — I noted the correction for subsidence in the paper, but are you confident in not accounting for other sources?

I recently researched causes of subsidence in Bangladesh (Brown and Nicholls 2015) and struggled with the uncertainties, data errors, and in some cases, poor science when recording rates of subsidence.

Taking into account the obscuring effects of high cloud, it was found that thick low clouds decreased by more than 20 % in the eastern tropical Pacific... In contrast, most increase in low cloud amount due to doubled CO2 simulated by the NCAR and GFDL models occurs in the subtropical subsidence regimes associated with a strong atmospheric stability.»

With climate change and subsidence, present protection will need to be upgraded to avoid unacceptable losses.

But the troposphere can still warm with an increased radiative cooling term because it is also balanced by heating through latent heat release, subsidence, solar absorption, increased IR flux from the surface, etc..

Today, flooding remains the most pressing concern with future vulnerability increased by climate change increases in hurricane intensity, continued subsidence, loss of protective wetlands, and inadequate protection.

In urban areas we find a correlation between rapid, patchy subsidence and industrial land use and elsewhere with agricultural land use.

The first diagram shows by way of a broken green line the undulation in tropopause height band if you look at the green arrows in the cloud to the left that lateral flow corresponds with my diagram but I extend the flow downwards beneath the distorted tropopause to the top of the adjoining subsidence column which is actually situated off to the right of this picture which focuses on frontal disturbances between low and high pressure cells rather than on the relationship between the low and high pressure cells themselves.

To better quantify and more adequately price risks associated with soil subsidence, «researchers from Swiss Re and ETH Zurich have developed a new loss model.

Impacts begin with underground mining, which has long been notorious for its safety issues and health effects on miners as well as for surface subsidence (especially with longwall mining) and release of methane gases.

The publication suggests that «soil subsidence will worsen and spread in Europe, with some areas seeing a more than 50 percent rise in future losses.

I attribute both the «global» (dominated by Atlantic basin measurement points) and European supposed «rise» in sea level to tectonic subsidence at the passive margin combined with the trailing edge of the great melt of 10K years ago.

People living near Kostolac — with houses close to the opencast mine which feeds the power plant — say there is a high rate of respiratory disease in the area; houses have also been damaged by land subsidence.

Not only that, but since the 1980s, more land area is above water than below it, indicating that tectonics and subsidence / uplift have much more to do with long - term relative sea level than climate or changes in water temperatures do.

e.g. models of eustacy («worldwide change of sea level as contrasted with local diastrophic uplift or subsidence of the land») vs isostacy (glacial rebound following glaciation / melting) vs local sinking / rising from glaciation / interglacial warming, CO2, and / or solar variations, and their causes.

In some places in the world, the study points to the possibility of a particularly devastating combination — sharp sea - level rise combined with major land subsidence because people are drawing so much drinking water out of the ground.

I realize that tidal gauge measurements for assessing sea level rise has met with some skepticism because of multiple measurement issues including tides, ground water pumping and subsidence, tectonic plate movement, glacial rebound, etc..

Most countries in South, South East and East Asia are particularly vulnerable to sea level rise due to rapid economic growth and coastward migration of people into urban coastal areas together with high rates of anthropogenic subsidence (for example due to water extraction) in deltas where many of the densely populated areas are located.

The sparse precipitation in these regions, a result of stability and subsidence, is associated with such great arid regions of the world as the Sahara, Atacama, Kalahari, and Sonoran deserts.

This is due to isostatic rebound with associated seafloor subsidence.

A number of studies have highlighted relationships between low - cloud amount changes under global warming and modeled variations of low clouds with changes in specific meteorological conditions (such as surface temperature, inversion strength, subsidence)(Qu et.

The problem with «improving» the database by including a large number of long lived stations is the inherent bias toward sites that will be subject to long term subsidence.

The only thing that prevents me from thinking that it is all is sea level as measured by tide gauges, but recent evidence that a significant fraction of SLR may be caused by subsidence that we are only just barely beginning to measure with universal GPS access is making me wonder even about that.

We suggest that the resolution of this issue is consistent with our estimate of the approximately +7 m Holsteinian global sea level, and is provided by Raymo & Mitrovica [58], who pointed out the need to make a glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) correction for post-glacial crustal subsidence at the places where Hearty and others deduced local sea - level change.

However, within the northwestern Gulf of Mexico, subsidence contributes to relative sea - level rise with rates in east Texas as high as 6.0 mm / yr (Paine, 1993).

The impacts of runoff and soil moisture deficits associated with warm temperatures can be acute, including enhanced wildfire risk (21), land subsidence from excessive groundwater withdrawals (22), decreased hydropower production (23), and damage to habitat of vulnerable riparian species (24).

The history of UCG is littered with contamination incidents, ground subsidence and industrial accidents, according to the organisation.