Sentence examples for high sea levels from inspiring English sources

A big hurricane would be much more damaging with high sea levels, Dr. Solecki says.

Sullivan said he was intrigued, but not yet fully persuaded, by the suggestion that the high sea levels around Laramidia stimulated the diversification of tyrannosaurids.

The ancestors of river dolphins were marine dolphins that invaded freshwater environments during high sea levels occurring near the end of the Miocene Epoch (23 million to 5 million years ago).

Examples of residual landforms are extinct volcanic cones, inactive stone rivers from climates on the fringe of glaciers, disconnected and abandoned parts of drainage systems, abandoned strandlines from more humid climates, fixed sand dunes from drier climates, marine terraces from high sea levels, and plunging sea cliffs from lower sea levels.

Increase in the incidence of extremely high sea levels in some parts of the world.

High sea levels are possible during the strong northeast monsoon surges (November February) if they coincide with spring tides.

Low ratios are interpreted as indicative of warmer intervals during times of high sea level.

The previous six summers have been dominated by high sea level pressure over the Beaufort Sea and Greenland, paired with low sea level pressure over Eurasia a pattern that helps to transport warm air into the Arctic.

"Global mean sea level will continue to rise during the 21st century," says today's report, by a further 26-82cm by 2100, but Stocker said "there is no consensus in the scientific community over very high sea level rises".

Larger failures occur during periods of rising or high sea level stand.

Furthermore, allogenetic cycles are more evident in high sea level periods while autogenetic cycles dominate in low sea level periods (Posamentier and Kolla 2003; Prather 2003).