abstract this research attempts to investigate the role of the blocking systems in surface cyclogenesis over eastern mediterranean sea; but particular attention is focused on the flood of iran during march 2000 over western states of iran as: hamadan, ilam, lorestan, kermanshah, kurdestan, zanjan, ghazvin.the data used for this research includes upper level and mean sea level pressure charts ev...

A database of published and new relative sea-level (RSL) data for the past 16 ka constrains the sea-level histories of the Pacific coast of central North America (southern British Columbia to central California). Our reevaluation of the stratigraphic context and radiocarbon age of sea-level indicators from geological and archaeological investigations yields 600 sea-level index points and 241 se...

Based on the satellite altimeter data, sea level off the west coast of the United States has increased over the past 5 years, while sea level in the western tropical Pacific has declined. Understanding whether this is a short-term shift or the beginning of a longer-term change in sea level has important implications for coastal planning efforts in the coming decades. Here, we identify and quant...