mean sea level
Example Sentences
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In Tianjin, a major port city near Beijing, maximum subsidence rates are almost 20 times greater than mean sea level rise.
From Scientific American
The plant draws from the Oroville Dam reservoir that has sunk to a historic low of fewer than 642 feet above mean sea level.
From Fox News
The first of these misdirection statements about Greenland is even more troubling because the rise in global mean sea level has accelerated.
From Scientific American
“Only the collapse of marine-based sectors of the Antarctic ice sheet, if initiated, could cause global mean sea level to rise substantially above the likely range during the 21st century,” the body noted then.
From Washington Post
The heights of mountains are measured with the mean sea level as the base.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
