3.1.1. Assu Bog (sill elevation 195 m above higher high tide (ahht)) This core features grey clay-rich silt from 653 to 616 cm below sediment surface (bss) overlain, in turn, by brown gyttja to 140 cm, water and a (floating) 50 cm thick herb vegetated peat mat. The ...
Going back further in time, we find warmer climates. During the Pliocene, three million years ago, sea level was about 25-35 meters higher than today, while temperatures were just 2-3 ºC warmer (Dowsett andet al. 1994). And during the Eocene, 40 million years ago, the Earth was a...
HAVANA, May 28 (Xinhua) -- Sea level rise in Cuba by 2050 and 2100 will be higher than forecasted a decade ago, especially in low-lying coastal areas and wetlands, experts warned Tuesday. Sea level would rise by around 29.3 cm by 2050 and 95 cm by 2100 when the previous calculations ...
Coastal response to anthropogenic climate change is of central importance to the infrastructure and inhabitants in these areas. Despite being globally ubiquitous, the stability of rock coasts has been largely neglected, and the expected acceleration of cliff erosion following sea-level rise has not been...
But southern Florida lies on a bed of porous limestone. During high tides, flooding can -- and does -- occur on sunny days, without even a drop of rain. That's because high tides -- increasingly higher due to sea level rise spurred by climate change -- seep up through the drainage ...
Satellite altimetry over the oceans shows that the rate of sea-level rise is far from uniform, with reported regional rates up to two to three times the global mean rate of rise of ~3.3 mm/year during the altimeter era. The mechanisms causing the regiona
"These rapid rates areunprecedentedover at least the 20th century and they have been three times higher than the global average over the same period," said Tulane professor Sönke Dangendorf, who led the study. This image shows the ocean's depth relative to sea level, represented by the co...
especially in the higher latitudes where the IB and tidal contributions become especially pronounced. The North Atlantic, including the northwest European Shelf, and the East China Sea show markedly larger amplitudes. For various applications that require the full sea-level signal, and not just the ...
Sinkholes in the DSB are formed when a subterranean salt layer that once bordered the Dead Sea is dissolved by underground freshwater that follows the migration of the saltwater–freshwater interface, due to receding water level of the Dead Sea. Consequently, large areas of land are subsiding, ...
particularly during the presence of a blocking anticyclone over the Bellingshausen Sea and Antarctic Peninsula, compared to times with a more eastward or weaker (i.e., higher pressure) ASL30,31,37. There are, therefore, seasonal fluctuations in the strength and position of the ASL, which typi...