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SEA LEVEL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Level of the ocean's surface (especially that halfway between mean high and low tide); used as a standard in reckoning land elevation or sea depth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("sea level" is a kind of...):
water level (the level of the surface of a body of water)
Context examples:
"Understanding how marshes might become more resilient has major implications for understanding coastal response to sea level rise."
(High carbon dioxide can create 'shrinking stems' in marshes, National Science Foundation)
Protecting marine life could help the oceans to function better, soaking up more carbon and providing barriers against sea level rises and storm surges, in the form of coral reefs and mangrove swamps.
(Oceans running out of oxygen at unprecedented rate, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Scientists need to understand what is regulating the glaciers' flow speeds to project how glacial meltwater will contribute to the region's water resources and to sea level rise.
(NASA Finds Asian Glaciers Slowed by Ice Loss, NASA)
"It is vital to understand the causes of ice-shelf instability because ice shelves buttress against the discharge of inland ice and therefore influence ice-sheet contributions to sea level rise."
(Reframing the dangers Antarctica's meltwater ponds pose to ice shelves and sea level, National Science Foundation)
Climate experts think that climate change will bring increasingly frequent and severe heat waves and extreme weather events, as well as a rise in sea levels.
(Climate Change, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
The new theory explains why some of the smaller lakes near Titan's north pole, like Winnipeg Lacus, appear in radar imaging to have very steep rims that tower above sea level - rims difficult to explain with the karstic model.
(New Models Suggest Titan Lakes Are Explosion Craters, NASA)
The poles are connected to the rest of the Earth, and what happens at the poles has consequences for weather and sea level around the world, said Michael Gooseff, a scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder and co-author of the new study.
(Warming at the poles will have global consequences, National Science Foundation)
The results highlight how the interaction between ocean conditions and the bedrock beneath a glacier can influence the glacier's evolution, with implications for understanding future ice loss from Antarctica and global sea level rise.
(Studies Offer New Glimpse of Melting Under Antarctic Glaciers, NASA)
Cassini will enter Saturn's atmosphere approximately one minute earlier, at an altitude of about 1,190 miles (1,915 kilometers) above the planet's estimated cloud tops (the altitude where the air pressure is 1-bar, equivalent to sea level on Earth).
(Cassini Spacecraft Makes Its Final Approach to Saturn, NASA)
As it dove through the gap, Cassini came within about 1,900 miles (3,000 kilometers) of Saturn's cloud tops (where the air pressure is 1 bar — comparable to the atmospheric pressure of Earth at sea level) and within about 200 miles (300 kilometers) of the innermost visible edge of the rings.
(Cassini Spacecraft Dives Between Saturn and Its Rings, NASA)
