He is an expert on sea level rise and methods of adapting to it.
Once ice is discharged from a grounded ice sheet into the ocean, it has an immediate impact on sea level, even though it remains part of the cryosphere until it subsequently melts.
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Melting ice in the Arctic will have implications for the rest of the world in terms of its impact on global sea level, atmospheric and oceanic circulation.
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Tuesday and is aiming for the roof of the mine workshop on Level 135 (135 meters above sea level).
Normally you forget this stuff 10, 000 feet above sea level on your flight back home.
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Ten miles of the highway is now standing 22 feet above sea level on cement piles.
More than 12, 000 feet above sea level on the windswept Andean plains, 30, 000 Indians await the arrival of Evo Morales.
The accident took place in at 2, 000m (6, 500ft) above sea level on the slopes of Mount Cermis, in the Fiemme Valley.
New Orleans sits mostly below sea level on swampland on the east bank of the Mississippi River and south of Lake Pontchartrain.
With new technologies rising faster than sea level on a hot planet, America is headed for the biggest energy boom in 60 years.
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This is a known phenomenon that can in principle be calculated and predicted based on a given sea-level rise, by means of the so-called Bruun effect.
The team simply is not acclimatised to the 5, 000 feet altitude here having only returned from sea level on Sunday and the bowlers were all flagging in the final session.
On the road up from sea level, signs of volcanic activity are everywhere.
"It depends on the level of the sea and sometimes it's about the stability of the way we put the sandbags, " Ms Yingluck told reporters.
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"Even though they seem far away, changes in the polar regions could have an impact on both hemispheres, with sea level rise and changes in climate patterns, " he said.
Leaders of small island states, which are on the front lines of sea-level rise, were less enthusiastic.
However, the fact that more ice rests below sea level means that on millennial timescales, increased amounts of ice are potentially vulnerable to ocean melting.
He talked about the extensive interdisciplinary studies, carried out by Cuban scientific institutions, on the impact of the rising sea water level.
Robichaux liked the fact that it was on higher ground, 8 feet above sea level, compared with 4 feet below sea level at the school he was supposed to run, KIPP Phillips.
The Ochsner clinic is a precious 7 or 8 feet above sea level, a distance that has kept it from being flooded out of commission like other hospitals on land in New Orleans, much of which is below sea level.
The surface of the inland waterway sits at the lowest land point on the planet, more than 400m below sea level.
That the Valley has joined the Maldives (with somewhat less urgency) on the list of those threatened by potential sea level rise is actually a good thing.
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While the crew enjoyed the port town at sea level, the strongest man on earth preferred to admire Barcelona from above, choosing the hilltop of Montjuic, which overlooks the city, for its magnificent views.
As sea level rises, the weight on one end increases, causing the plank to bend so pressure goes up at the end but down in the middle where the plank bends upward (see sketch above).
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Hike into Chinchero , an adobe village overlooking the Sacred Valley of the Incas and believed to be the mythical birthplace of the rainbow. (Love this.) Visit the village of Huilloc where weavers still speak the language of their Incan ancestors and still grow crops on tiny terraced plots 12, 000 feet above sea level.
An Indian Navy officer, on board a ship off the coast, said the sea level was unchanged.
If spending on defences remains limited, and the scenarios for sea-level rise through climate change prove correct, conservation of the marshes may acquire more urgency.
Sure, but even if Greenland and Antarctica melting is on ice for a while, what about that dreaded sea level-hiking runoff from those glaciers?
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When I talk about flooding of land with none Dutch and I tell them we live under sea level and that one day the sea will take the land back were my house is standing on now.
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