Sentences with phrase «gulf average depth»
1 ton = ~ 7.3 barrels oil estimated Gulf oil leakage rate ~ 21600 barrels / day (5 - 40,000 depending on who's estimating) or 3000 tons / day methane emission = 1.5 e3 ton / day = 1.5 e9 g / day at 50 % methane by weight in the leak (probably a high estimate) Gulf area = 1.5 e6 km ^ 2 = 1.5 e12 m ^ 2 Gulf average depth = 1.62 e3 m Gulf volume = ~ 2.4 e15 m ^ 3
http://www.realclimate.org/ Not exact matches
Roughly 10 times the amount of oil than has been spilled in the Gulf of Mexico so far was released into a much smaller body of water (the Persian Gulf is less than 1 / 6th the size of the Gulf of Mexico by surface area and has an average depth of only 160 feet and a maximum depth of a mere 300 feet vs. a maximum depth in the Gulf of Mexico of 14,383 feet).