The cosmic-ray differential density spectrum in the range 3 to 10000 p/m 2 has been obtained, using Wilson cloud chambers, at sea level and at 2285 m a.s.l. In neither case can the whole spectrum be fitted by a single power law. Using a three-parameter fit the sea-level spectrum ...
is the GPD density function. The additional parameter of interest that needs to be estimated to compute return periods is λ the Poisson rate of exceedance, indicating the expected annual number of events exceeding the threshold μ. According to the GPD definition, the expected number of events ...
Global warming - Ice Melt, Sea Level Rise: A warming climate holds important implications for other aspects of the global environment. Because of the slow process of heat diffusion in water, the world’s oceans are likely to continue to warm for several
The transition layer between the intermediate and the deep water has the lowest level of dissolved oxygen. Climate Earth; satellite imageThe Mediterranean Sea is mostly enclosed by southern Europe and northern Africa. It is linked to the Atlantic Ocean by the Strait of Gibraltar.(more) Airflow ...
we found that the acceleration is a widespread signal that extends from the coasts of the Gulf of Mexico up to Cape Hatteras in North Carolina and into the North Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Seas," he said in a statement, "which is indicative for changes in the ocean's density and circula...
The geoid and ellipsoid intersect at the geoid undulations. Undulations result from several phenomena, the most significant of which is the existence of gravitational anomalies caused by the nonhomogeneous nature of the earth. The density of magma in the earth’s crust is unevenly distributed. In ...
34 based on the observed elevation of six Pliocene sea level indicators and it was found that the median uplift rate at this site is 2.0 m/Myr (0.6–4.4 m/Myr; uncertainties constitute the 16th and 84th percentiles of the probability density function for the uplift rate). We use this ...
The International Convention for Safety of Life at Sea, or SOLAS, outlines minimum safety standards for constructing and operating merchant ships. Get a summary of all SOLAS Chapters here.
(i.e., the ocean grid point adjacent to the land mask), the distribution being based on the population density as used by van Sebille et al. (2015). Not surprisingly, both experiments exhibit the presence of the subtropical convergence zones mainly due to the ocean dynamics (Fig.16), ...
Sea-level rise is a significant indicator of broader climate changes, and the time of emergence concept can be used to identify when modern rates of sea-level rise emerged above background variability. Yet a range of estimates of the timing persists both