Sentences with phrase «area loss rate»

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Your local crime rates affect what you pay for hazard insurance, for example, because with more crime in the area, your potential for loss is greater.

It has already folded in three of the five largest metropolitan areas — Chicago, Philadelphia and Detroit — while it has been only a propped - up nonentity in New York and a cut - rate arena loss leader in L.A. «I'm not kidding myself,» Foreman says.

The socioeconomic section of the SGEIS faced a huge amount of criticism when it was released because it concentrated on positive economic impacts while not giving any estimates of costs incurred to municipalities or the state or any treatment of the socioeconomic stresses seen in other areas where wide - spread drilling has occurred, such as higher rents, noise, higher crime rates, increased traffic, and loss of jobs in other sectors.

Despite some local successes and increasing responses (including extent and biodiversity coverage of protected areas, sustainable forest management, policy responses to invasive alien species, and biodiversity - related aid), the rate of biodiversity loss does not appear to be slowing.

Given that rates of erosion within the study area reach as high as nine meters of shoreline loss per year, semi-regular imagery updates would be required to adequately manage coastally situated archaeological features.

The rate at which interior forest area was lost was more than three times the rate of global forest area loss.

Across the globe, temperate coniferous forests experienced the largest percentage of loss, tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests lost the most area of interior forest, and boreal forests and taiga lost interior forest at the highest rate.

Complementary analyses of the surface mass balance of Greenland (Tedesco et al, 2011) also show that 2010 was a record year for melt area extent... Extrapolating these melt rates forward to 2050, «the cumulative loss could raise sea level by 15 cm by 2050 ″ for a total of 32 cm (adding in 8 cm from glacial ice caps and 9 cm from thermal expansion)- a number very close to the best estimate of Vermeer & Rahmstorf (2009), derived by linking the observed rate of sea level rise to the observed warming.

[7] The IceCon project aims to gain a better understanding of the rate of the loss of ice — now and in the past - from the Antarctic ice sheet in the Dronning Maud Land area, and includes six partners: Université Libre de Bruxelles, Royal Observatory of Belgium, University of Luxembourg, Norwegian Polar Institute, and Aberystwyth University.

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Even in the face of astounding low mortgage rates including a shrinking jumbo spread (current best rates in your area), housing just isn't moving the dial and many investors fear with the expiration of the new homebuyer tax credit and a recent report outlining a massive drop in credit scores of Americans this year, we're looking at a new leg down in housing, which could crush Financials again, especially in the loan loss bucket.

If surface area and thickness continue at a constant rate, then the volumetric loss must decrease, resulting in the sigmoidal curves.

The authors of a new paper in Nature, «Species — area relationships always overestimate extinction rates from habitat loss,» claim to have mathematical proof showing results of such calculations, using the «species to area curve,» are uniformly too high.

In outline, the model supposes that the rate of change of ice extent has two terms - accumulation proportional to its length, and loss at the grounding line which is proportional to the cross-section area there, which because a constant width is assumed is proportional to the depth of the ice.

The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation reported in 2015 that, while forested areas had decreased since 1990, the rate of net forest loss had been cut by 50 %.

This has likely delayed further ice loss in these areas, which together with the low SLP over the central Arctic Ocean, accounts in part for the recent decrease in the rate of ice loss seen in Figure 2.

«The current rate of sea ice loss, and the reduced thickness of large areas of the ice remaining, suggests that we may see yet another record minimum in summer sea ice extent this year.»

Many of the mechanisms are like that — the tides, the direct inductive heating, the heating caused by the days influx of falling meteorites — which incidentally is far greater than the rate of heat loss through outgassing, as meteoric dust and matter infalls at an average rate of at least millimeters per decade, from my own direct measurements — they have «impressively» large amounts of annual energy associated with them, right up to where you divide by the surface area of the earth and the number of seconds in a year.

In fact, despite the hundreds of millions of dollars in donor funds that have flowed into the region since 2000 and the establishment of more than 100 million hectares of protected areas since 2002, average annual deforestation rates have increased since the 1990s, peaking at 73,785 square kilometers (28,488 square miles) of forest loss between 2002 and 2004.

With one of the world's highest rates of primary forest loss and a series of controversial concessions granted to foreign companies in key forest areas, Cambodia is widely viewed as an environmental pariah.

Overall in Greenland, the rate of area loss in marine - terminating glaciers during the 2010 melt season (419 km2) was 3.4 times that of the previous 8 years.

«The total annual loss of mangroves and seagrasses has the longterm carbon sequestration capacity of a tropical forest area similar to the annual deforestation rate in the Amazon,» writes Pidgeon.

Athough habitat loss in global biodiversity hotspots may overestimate extinction rates [4], [24], our study shows that model projections based on naïve species - area curves can be hugely optimistic in the real - world.

In 2002, the Larsen B ice shelf collapsed; in 2003, the World Glacial Monitoring Service reported that «The recent increase in the rates of ice loss over reduced glacier surface areas as compared with earlier losses related to larger surface areas (cf. the thorough revision of available data by Dyurgerov, 2002) becomes even more pronounced and leaves no doubt about the accelerating change in climatic conditions.»

We can estimate the potential magnitude of the ice mass biases by noting that if the average velocity prediction bias of ~ 5 mm / yr evident in Figure 5 is developed over ~ 2 × 10 ^ 6 km2, an area somewhat smaller than that of West Antarctica, this would cause an apparent but spurious ice loss of ~ 33 Gt yr - 1, which is a significant fraction of all published ice mass rates derived from GRACE [Velicogna and Wahr, 2006; Chen et al., 2006; Ramillien et al., 2006; Sasgen et al., 2007a].

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Because your policy will compensate you for losses that result from property crimes, owning a mobile home in a high - crime area is likely to elevate your mobile home insurance rates.

The Information related to the location of your home, the loss experience in the area where your home is located and anticipated risk factors about where your home is physically situation impact insurance rates.

As regions are reassessed periodically, their status could change and you could suddenly find yourself living in a higher risk area, where your insurer's rates may not be adequate to cover losses.

You want to be fairly compensated for your loss as quickly as possible, so avoid Seattle area providers with negative ratings.

The economic vitality of an area, such as whether these is a serious lack of mortgage credit for low to moderate - income families or a high rate of unemployment due to loss of employers, is also a factor in determining eligibility.