Project Noah: Managing the Rise of Modern Sea Level

诺亚计划：应对现代海平面的上升

• 批准号: 8618525
• 负责人: Rhodes Fairbridge
• 金额: $ 9.75万
• 依托单位: CUNY Queens College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1987
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1987-05-15 至 1990-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8618525&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Project; Noah; Managing; Rise; Modern

World sea levels have been rising throughout this century, and there is a consensus that will continue to rise. Littoral populations have responded in two general ways: by moving inland and by building defenses, e.g., dykes and barrages, being both measures expensive and/or economically and socially disruptive. The present work will explore a third option for managing the sea level rise: the manipulation of the natural sources and sinks of ocean water volumes by storing water in unsaturated aquifers. It is estimated that diversions of ocean-bound freshwater affected during this century has already resulted in a reduction in the rate of increase of the rising of sea levels. Additional diversions may be an economic solution to this potentially catastrophic hazard. The project will utilize geological records on moisture deficient regions, data on the effects of natural and man-made water impoundments on global water balance, Landsat imagery, and material form the Thematic Mapper panels, in selected areas of the U.S., Ukraine, India, the Sahel, and Argentina.

整个世纪，世界海平面一直在上升， 有一种共识会继续上升。 沿岸的 人口的反应一般有两种： 通过建立防御，例如，堤坝和拦河坝， 措施昂贵和/或在经济和社会上具有破坏性。 目前的工作将探讨管理海洋的第三种选择 水平面上升：操纵水的自然源和汇， 通过将水储存在非饱和含水层中来增加海洋水量。 它 据估计， 在这个世纪已经导致了减少 海平面上升的速度。 额外 转移可能是一个经济的解决方案， 灾难性的危险 该项目将利用有关水分缺乏的地质记录 关于自然和人造水影响的数据 蓄水对全球水平衡，陆地卫星图像， 材料形成专题制图器面板，在选定的区域 美国，乌克兰、印度、萨赫勒和阿根廷。