Sentences with phrase «about a meter thinner»

By the end of the 20th century, glaciers were retreating throughout the world, and those in Alaska were typically becoming about a meter thinner every 4 or 5 years.

Not exact matches

A scientific team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has found a new way to take the local temperature of a material from an area about a billionth of a meter wide, or approximately 100,000 times thinner than a human hair.

The melting occurs where the overlying ice is about 400 meters thicker, Siegert notes; the added pressure lowers the melting temperature, just as the pressure of an ice skater's blade creates a thin rind of water underneath.

To make sure the puppy dog has gotten the idea, place a thin rope (or something similar) of about ten meters long on the puppy and allow him to run off freely, without letting him see that you are holding onto the rope or leash, you can make it less obvious by placing the leash flat on the ground so he does not notice.

Using ICESat measurements, scientists found that overall Arctic sea ice thinned about 0.17 meters (7 inches) a year, for a total of 0.68 meters (2.2 feet) over four winters.

So if on shined that laser on a square meter for say 10 mins then the 1 mm depth of square meter could warm by about 1 C. Rather than water one could also heat up anything with a thin surface [and assuming one reduces the heat loss] So thin sheet of paper which absorbs [has heat capacity of whatever wavelength one is using could heated within mins of exposure.

What the report says about sea ice and climate change: Since the early 1980s, annual average Arctic sea ice has decreased in extent between 3.5 percent and 4.1 percent per decade, become 4.3 to 7.5 feet (1.3 and 2.3 meters) thinner.