Sentences with phrase «about a meter above»

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«About 8,700 meters» — that's meters above sea level, or 500 feet from the summit.

So I suppose, considering what you and someone above said about the meter not catching stuff, my question would be (well two questions) why they follow up with someone who DOES have gestational diabetes by assigning a meter, and then whether, if the person was able to avoid huge insulin peaks by eating well and such that the meter showed them not going over their established (by the doctor that is) threshold, would that mean that they were effectively mitigating the risks?

Dubbed Isthminia panamensis — a blend of the genus name of today's Amazon river dolphin and the location where the new species was found — the dolphin (artist's reconstruction above) was about 2.85 meters (9.4 feet) long and is thus slightly smaller than its modern - day namesake, the researchers report online today in PeerJ.

An area with more than 20 meters of horizontal displacement, that is, four times larger than those detected on land, stretches several tens of kilometers long along the trench; the largest amount reaches about 24 meters toward east - southeast just above the hypocenter.

Most of the nation is about 1.5 meters above sea level, a threshold that could easily be breached by the end of the century if current projections of sea - level rise occur.

MBARI's yellow, torpedo - shaped seafloor - mapping AUV spent two days flying about 50 meters above the bottom of the Basin, using sound beams to map the depth and shape of the seafloor.

They compared the Tibetans to a group of 50 volunteers from the Cleveland area, which is about 200 meters above sea level.

«It will climb up to about 100 meters above and will continue on its route.»

Residents of Chelyabinsk, Siberia, likely felt that way last Feb. 15, when a roughly 15 - meter - wide meteor exploded above the Ural Mountains, shattering windows across about 200,000 square meters.

It shows where there's potential capacity for wind turbines 80 meters (about 262 feet) above the ground.

The atomic bombs the United States dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 detonated about 500 meters above those cities.

A collapse of Tehri Dam in the central Himalayas, which sits above a fault, would, for instance, release a wall of water about 200 meters high, slamming through two towns.

First, the bird would soar across the wind and slightly into it, climbing from just above the waves to a height of about 15 meters.

This photo has a resolution of about 80 meters per pixel, crisp enough to show the jagged edges of ice mountains that rise above a plain of frozen nitrogen.

A new review analyzing three decades of research on the historic effects of melting polar ice sheets found that global sea levels have risen at least six meters, or about 20 feet, above present levels on multiple occasions over the past three million years.

Electricity produced by a fuel cell by combining hydrogen and oxygen powered an electric motor to turn the two - seat test glider's propeller and enabled it to fly for roughly 20 minutes at 62 miles per hour (100 kilometers per hour) at about 3,300 feet (1,000 meters) above sea level.

On Saturday, the drill had encountered water at about 3766 meters depth, but the team determined that it was a water lens sitting above the surface of the lake rather than the lake itself.

A NASA review board found that the craft most likely crashed when it misinterpreted vibrations (caused by lowering its landing gear) as a signal that it had reached the ground, triggering its thrusters to shut down about 130 feet (40 meters) above the surface.

Then, about 3600 years ago, farmers started climbing higher and higher up on the plateau, reaching as far as 3400 meters above sea level.

... Above the Khumbu Icefall [at about 5500 meters], we can't make any guarantees that people are going to be able to stay with Richard throughout, [so] there will be self - collection.

Other tests indicate that the long - lost peak — now dubbed Kaena volcano — grew from the sea floor and broke through the ocean's surface about 3.5 million years ago, eventually reaching a height of about 1000 meters above sea level before it began sinking back into the sea.

In August 2009, the orbiting Cassini spacecraft caught sight of 20 - meter - high corrugations rippling across 1500 kilometers of Saturn's inner C ring (regular, narrow bright bands, above), which is only about 10 meters thick.

In one species, the black snub - nosed monkey (about 2,000 individuals are found in the wild), they identified several hypoxia - related genes that allowed them to thrive in the highest altitudes (a narrow region 3,400 - 4,500 meters above sea level in a narrow region between the Yangtze and Mekong rivers within the Tibetan plateau) than any other nonhuman primate.

The Pucuncho workshop site [4355 meters above sea level (masl)-RSB- includes two fishtail projectile points, which date to about 12.8 to 11.5 thousand years ago (ka).

The Pucuncho Basin in the southern Peruvian Andes contains the highest - altitude Pleistocene archaeological sites yet identified in the world, about 900 meters above confidently dated contemporary sites.

Geologic shoreline evidence has been interpreted as indicating a rapid sea level rise of a few meters late in the Eemian to a peak about 9 meters above present, suggesting the possibility that a critical stability threshold was crossed that caused polar ice sheet collapse [84]--[85], although there remains debate within the research community about this specific history and interpretation.

In the chart above (acceleration in meters per second per second on the vertical axis, time in seconds on the horizontal axis), the Tesla (red line) starts quickly, but the XC90 jumps ahead within the first half second and remains ahead until about 3 seconds.

Besakih Mother Temple Besakih Mother Temple, located in slope of Mount Agung about 1000 meters above sea level.

Mount Batur is the second largest mount in Bali, about 1717 meter above sea level.

The altitude of this place is about 1890 meters above sea level.

The walk to the first camp starts around 9:30 am in the direction of Soraypampa, located at 3900 meters above sea level, about 4 hours walking at a regular pace.

After walking for about 6 km, we will reach the highest point of the route, the Salkantay pass at 4650 meters above sea level, from where we can appreciate the imposing snowy peaks of the Andes.

There's just something about being 5000 feet / 1500 meters above sea level that makes you feel on top of the world.

The tallest was approximately 40 feet (12 meters) above the water and the lower about half that height.

It nests in low, level crevices about three to ten meters above the ocean.

Ronda lies spectacularly about 750 meters above sea level on the edge of a cliff which overlooks the El Tajo canyon.

The major portion of the site is a raised area about 140 meters by 120 meters, elevated about 2.5 meters above the surrounding terrain.

Mound 2 is also about four meters above the surrounding area, but unlike Mound 1, residential debris was found there.

Bali Bedugul Botanical garden is unique in Bali as a place for botanical research, conservations, recreation, and educations located at bedugul village, 1240 meters above sea level, it is about 62 km from denpasar.

This massive limestone pinnacle which only protrudes about three meters above the surface is huge and impressive under the water.

Puri Alam Bali is located in a very cold area of Munduk village, about 800 meters above the sea level.

The lagoons are located about 90 km from San Pedro at over 4000 meters above sea level.

From the airport, take a Blue Bird Taxi (meter taxi about Rp 300,000 — 400,000 and above) from the airport to Bangsal Harbour.

It is set at height land about 300 meters above sea level.

Plugging S = 1367.6 and A = 0.306 into the equation above, we find that F is about 237 watts per square meter for the Earth, corresponding to an «equilibrium temperature» (or «emission temperature,» or «effective temperature») of 254 ° K. Most formulations use a slightly different S and A and get 255 ° K.

The tunnel entrance is 130 meters, or about 400 feet, above sea level.

The land «surface» is 2 meters above the «surface» and that «surface» varies from a few dozen meters below msl to about 3000 meters above msl.

There's nothing «unphysical», or even implausible, about more heat ending up below 700 meters without any net warming above.

The only problem with all the predictions about the level of the World Ocean rising is that, the World Ocean is refusing to rise up in support of the predictions, the other problem is that ice is frozen fresh water and frozen fresh water only covers about 5 % of this planet above sea level and frozen water under the level of the World Ocean does not count as the World Ocean will fall a small amount if that ice melts, so if the ice there is enough to get the World Ocean to rise and significant amount then it must be piled up very high, I cubic kilometer of water as ice, should it melt, would make 1000 square kilometers rise by one meter, so when you use this simple math then somewhere on the planet, above the level of the sea, then there must be over 500,000 cubic kilometers of ice, piled up and just waiting to melt, strange that no one can find that amount of ice, all these morons who talk about the rise of the World Ocean in tens of meters, this includes you Peter Garrett or Mr. 7 Meters, the ice does not exist to allow this amount of rise in the World Ocean, it is just not meters, this includes you Peter Garrett or Mr. 7 Meters, the ice does not exist to allow this amount of rise in the World Ocean, it is just not Meters, the ice does not exist to allow this amount of rise in the World Ocean, it is just not there.

So David what are your reactions to article such as the one linked by Alex above discussing fears about Antarctica glaciers adding 10 feet to the Global Sea Level when the IPCC AR5 WGI states explicitly that the current annual increase in GMSL from Antarctica is 20 % of the thickness of a dime and that the IPCC forecast for 2100 is to have the Antarctic glaciers adding only.05 Meter to Global Mean Sea Level.