Simulated future sea-level rise due to glacier melt based on regionally and seasonally resolved temperature changes

Article Abstract:

An improved calculation of glacier melt is based on the temperature patterns produced by a coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation model as inputs to a seasonally and regionally differentiated glacier model. The inclusion of the effects of seasonality and hypsometry on sensitivity is a significant advantage of this model. The contribution to global average sea-level rise from glacier melt in the period 1900 to 2100 is 132 mm from the simulation SUL and 182 mm from the simulation GHG. Predictions indicate that more than a quarter of the current total volume of glaciers will have been lost by the end of the 21st century.

Models, Glaciers

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Sea level and initiation of Predynastic culture in the Nile delta

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Archaeologists attribute environmental factors such as regional climate change and frequent floods of the Nile to the early habitation of the Nile valley and delta in 5000 BC. A geological survey reveals that the deceleration in the rise of the sea-level was due to the accumulation of Nile silt during 6500-5500 BC. The periodic rise in sea-level and silt deposition in the early Holocene helped in the growth of an agrarian civilization in the Nile delta by making the land fertile.

History, Nile Valley

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Biological abnormality of impaired reading is constrained by culture

Article Abstract:

Functional magnetic resonance imaging with reading-impaired Chinese children and associated controls is used to show that functional disruption f the left middle frontal gyrus is associated with impaired reading of the Chinese language (a logographic rather than alphabetic writing system).

Analysis, Study and teaching, Magnetic resonance imaging, Chinese language, Visually disabled children, Visually impaired children

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