Simulated future sea-level rise due to glacier melt based on regionally and seasonally resolved temperature changes
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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.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1998
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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.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1993
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Biological abnormality of impaired reading is constrained by culture
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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).
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2004
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