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Sea levels may rise higher in Pacific due to ice loss

Feb 20 2013, 5:26am CST | by

Rome, Feb 20 (IANS) Computer modelling has predicted parts of the Pacific experiencing the highest rates of rise in sea levels, while it may actually fall in some polar regions, owing to the interaction of sea, land and ice.

Rome, Feb 20 — Computer modelling has predicted parts of the Pacific experiencing the highest rates of rise in sea levels, while it may actually fall in some polar regions, owing to the interaction...

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ComRent Introduces New EXLS Water-Cooled Load Bank System

Source: MarketWire  |   May 23 2013, 6:19am CDT

OWINGS, MD--(Marketwired - May 23, 2013) - ComRent, a leading global provider of load bank testing, rentals and service, today announced the availability of the new EXLS water-cooled load bank system. The custom-engineered EXLS ...

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Body pulled from water near Anne Arundel marina

Source: Baltimore Sun  |   May 23 2013, 6:17am CDT

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Water Entrepreneur Announces First Ever Personal Dry Eye Humidifier

Source: PRWeb  |   May 23 2013, 5:56am CDT

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Demand for packaged drinking water goes up

Source: Times of India  |   May 23 2013, 2:17am CDT

MYSORE: Demand for packaged drinking water has gone up in Mysore. Thanks to the water crisis and summer. Usually, the demand goes up during summer but this season it has almost doubled, said dealers who are finding it difficult to meet the demand. ...

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Biodiversity is central to achieving the vision of a water secure world: UN chief

Source: Merinews  |   May 23 2013, 2:15am CDT

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Evian to debut new water bottle design

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Bedding washed should with warm water

Source: Silicon India  |   May 23 2013, 1:57am CDT

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NYC's water quest on exhibit in Grahamsville

Source: Times Herald-Record  |   May 23 2013, 1:18am CDT

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Water Shortage Hits 3000 Mbarara Homes

Source: AllAfrica.com  |   May 23 2013, 12:37am CDT

Mbarara — Residents of Mbarara town and Kaberebere in Isingiro district have been short of water since Saturday following a technical fault on the water pump at Ruharo main water station. Now the over 3000 affected ...

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Senate OKs water, education bill

Source: Times Record News  |   May 23 2013, 12:26am CDT

Pieces of the budget and a plan to secure Texas’ water future fell into place Wednesday night. After a week of negotiations, the Senate passed House Bill 1025, which holds $201.7 million for public education and $2 billion for ...

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TB Joshua water victims discharged

Source: Ghana Web  |   May 23 2013, 12:17am CDT

Police reports indicates that the 21 victims, who sustained injuries during a stampede which left four others dead last Sunday at the Synagogue Church Of All Nations (SCOAN), have all been treated and discharged from the various health facilities wit ...

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Scientists visit Fresno to discuss San Joaquin Valley water woes

Source: Fresno Bee  |   May 22 2013, 11:36pm CDT

At a rare Fresno meeting of the 125-year-old Geological Society of America, Sanger hydrologist David Cehrs linked city growth to an expanding water crisis in the San Joaquin Valley. "There will be no winners, only losers. Nobody is going to like ...

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Sea levels may rise higher in Pacific due to ice loss

Feb 20 2013, 5:26am CST | by

Rome, Feb 20 (IANS) Computer modelling has predicted parts of the Pacific experiencing the highest rates of rise in sea levels, while it may actually fall in some polar regions, owing to the interaction of sea, land and ice.

Rome, Feb 20 — Computer modelling has predicted parts of the Pacific experiencing the highest rates of rise in sea levels, while it may actually fall in some polar regions, owing to the interaction of sea, land and ice.

Researchers from the Universities of Urbino (Italy) and Bristol (Britain) have looked ahead to the year 2100 to show how ice loss will continue to add to rising sea levels.

Scientists have known that sea level rise will not be uniform, but the team of 'ice2sea' project researchers show in great detail the global pattern of sea-level rise that would result from two scenarios of ice-loss from glaciers and ice sheets, the journal Geophysical Research Letters reports.

Scientists from Urbino and Bristol found that ice melt from glaciers and the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets is likely to be of critical importance to regional sea level change in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean where the sea level rise would be greater than the average increase across the globe.

This will affect in particular western Australia, Oceania and the small atolls and islands in this region, including Hawaii, according to an Urbino and Bristol statement.

The study focussed on three effects could cause global mean sea-level rise to be unequally distributed around the world.

Firstly, land is subsiding and emerging due to a massive loss of ice at the end of the last ice age 10,000 years ago when billions of tonnes of ice covering parts of North America and Europe melted.

This caused a major redistribution of mass on earth, but the crust responds to such changes so slowly that it is still deforming.

Secondly, the warming of the oceans leads to a change in the distribution of water across the globe.

Thirdly, the sheer mass of water held in ice at the frozen continents such as Antarctica and Greenland exerts a gravitational pull on the surrounding liquid water, pulling in enormous amounts of water and raising the sea-level close to those continents.

As the ice melts, its pull decreases and the water previously attracted rushes away to be redistributed around the globe.

Co-author Giorgio Spada, professor from Urbion, says: "We are successful in defining the patterns, known as sea level fingerprints, which affect sea levels.

"This is paramount for assessing the risk due to inundation in low-lying, densely populated areas. The most vulnerable areas are those where the effects combine to give the sea-level rise that is significantly higher than the global average."

Co-author Jonathan Bamber of Bristol says: "This is the first study to examine the regional pattern of sea level changes using sophisticated model predictions of the wastage of glaciers and ice sheets over the next century."

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