Sentences with phrase «at about a meter»

The IPCC estimates a likely upper bound for sea level rise, for instance, at about a meter, but under much stronger warming scenarios.

Not exact matches

About twenty minutes later, Reuters reporters observed the same group voting again a few hundred meters away at polling station no. 215.

The material was dispersed up to three meters away — nearly 10 feet — and a closer look at the study by Ars Technica found that about 70 percent of the dispersed material was at the height of a small child's face.

Inadequate flood protection infrastructure, which right now might not contain high tides in El Nino years; Lack of action on annual sediment removal from spring freshets, which each year move over 30 million m3 of sediment and leave about 3 million m3 of silt in the navigation and secondary channels of the lower reaches; and, By the end of this century sea levels at the mouth of the river could potentially rise more than one meter due to climate change overtopping the diking system.

And eventually something's going to give, and so the coastline that's been jacked up over 500 - ish years or so is going to drop about a meter in about a minute or so,» Chris Goldfinger, a paleo - seismologist at Oregon State University, told CBS News.

Stop with the b.s. line about how you millennials are so adapt at the b.s. meter.

The immense mass of the earth attracts the relatively minute mass of our bodies, and so we stay on the surface of the planet even though it is whirling us around its center at about 1,600 kilo - meters per hour.

When Katherine Reutter won a 1,000 - meter silver medal at a World Cup event last month, Colbert gushed about how nice his logo looked on her «oak - hard quadriceps.»

The finals for the men's 4x400 - meter relay and women's 4x100 relay at the 2012 Olympics both take place on Friday, and the speculation about who, exactly, will be selected for the teams from nations» «relay pools» is now over.

(I had been much too excited about climbing up to 4,000 meters to sleep at all.)

In my earlier post I talked about how it's not a trivial benefit that Workbar at Staples locations mean you can park in a lot without worrying about finding a parking space and feeding a meter (or worrying about whether your client or business associates can find a parking space and feed a meter).

However, be careful with the distance from the sound machine to your baby, at least two meters (about seven feet) as well as reduce the volume.

At Abesan, Governor Ambode, who trekked about 900 meters from Church Road down to Giwa Street to inspect the Abesan link road, equally promised that work would commence on the road within the next two to three weeks.

The three accompanying members were at about few meters behind the former President, taking to his left - hand side of due to the open environment.

They had gathered at the fuel station in readiness to march to the party's national headquarters at Asylum Down in Accra, which was about some 250 meters away.

Their model confirmed the existence of a magma plume pumping about 150 milliwatts per square meter (or about 11 square feet) of heat up to the surface, and peaking at as much as 180 milliwatts per square meter in a region where a rift in the crust may exist.

Tropical monsoons in Indonesia and floods in the United States are both provoked by the Madden - Julian Oscillation (MJO), a process that results in pulses of clouds and precipitation moving eastward around the globe at about 5 meters per second.

A single carbon nanotube about two billionths of a meter wide can compete with the best materials of today at detecting ammonia and nitrous oxide, a gas often found in automobile emissions.

SUPERDUCK Estimates based on its skull (left) and skeleton put P. bergei at about 9 meters long.

The scientists report that at crash velocities of about 30 meters per second, atoms within each particle shift only near the initial point of contact.

To determine when fire became a routine part of the lives of the cave dwellers, the team looked at flints from about 100 layers of sediments in the lowermost 16 meters of the cave deposits.

Privacy Concerns At the moment, most of the new services can provide imagery down to about a meter of resolution.

At the same time, the unique suspended mooring system for each machine developed a fault, and instead of floating about 15 meters below the tethered snakes, the system began to sink and drag the snakes down with it.

The closest outcrop at bottom right was about 15 meters from the rover.

The imagery starts out at a resolution of about 0.5 meters.

The fact that the 16,000 - kilometer - wide spot is warmer at the bottom than at the top could help explain the storm's screaming wind speeds of about 120 meters per second.

In particular, the 1.55 meters of bedrock at the core's base revealed much about the island's history of glaciation, Schaefer says, in atoms that chronicle exposure to the elements.

Based on the size of the full humerus, the researchers can estimate the size of the turtle, which they put at about 3 meters (9.8 feet) from nose to tail.

While SCUBA divers can work down to about 40 meters (120 feet), the Curasub mini-submarine plunges to 309 meters (about 1,000 feet), where it can stay submerged for up to eight hours at normal atmospheric pressure, enabling the passengers to simply step ashore after a dive.

Considering the proportions of the bone fragments, the camel was a giant, probably about 2.7 meters tall at the shoulder — almost 30 % larger than its modern relatives are.

A study published online Oct. 13 in the journal Current Biology describes how researchers used metal microelectrodes in a jumping spider's poppy - seed - sized brain to show that auditory neurons can sense far - field sounds, at distances up to 3 meters, or about 600 spider body lengths.

UCSC research scientist Patrick Fulton was on board the research vessel Kairei, operated by the Japan Agency for Marine - Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), for the retrieval of the string of pressure and temperature sensors that was installed across the fault zone at about 800 meters beneath the seafloor.

The new images, at resolutions of about 80 meters per pixel, show a striking shoreline, where smooth plains of nitrogen ice from Pluto's «heart» rub up against water ice mountains several kilometers high.

These so - called electro - optical satellites produced images at resolutions better than 1 meter (about 3 feet)-- detailed enough to show individual cars and revealing such secrets as a new Soviet aircraft carrier under construction at a Black Sea shipyard.

Superior is about 406 meters deep at its greatest point, so it is particularly vulnerable to such shifts.

At a range of 2 meters, existing time - of - flight systems have a depth resolution of about a centimeter.

About 4,500 residents live in the region, at an altitude of 4,730 meters.

Because particles also behave like waves, they are smeared out over a distance that decreases with increasing energy — at LHC energies, about 1019 meter.

At an altitude of about 5,200 meters on the Chajnantor Plateau, a Mars - like red expanse in Chile's Atacama Desert, the driest place in the world, ALMA's matching antennas swivel in unison as observers collect light from cosmic objects.

Second, satellite - based measurements reveal that India and southern Tibet are colliding and converging at a rate of about two meters a century, and that a relatively small swathe of the Tibetan Plateau's southern edge is absorbing most of this convergence.

«There are other elements involved, but if size were the only factor, we'd be looking for an asteroid smaller than about 40 feet (12 meters) across,» said Paul Chodas, a senior scientist in the Near - Earth Object Program Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. «There are hundreds of millions of objects out there in this size range, but they are small and don't reflect a lot of sunlight, so they can be hard to spot.

2016 TB57 is a rather small asteroid — about 50 to 115 feet (16 to 36 meters) in size — that will come closest to Earth on Oct. 31 at just beyond five times the distance of the moon.

The paper is one of six appearing in the journal that reports results from the analysis of data and observations obtained during Curiosity's exploration at Yellowknife Bay — an expanse of bare bedrock in Gale Crater about 500 meters from the rover's landing site.

Standing less than waist high, these lithe, bipedal creatures measured as much as 1.5 meters long from the tip of their snout to the tip of their tail and weighed about 23.5 kilograms (about as much as a medium - sized dog), says Xing Xu, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing.

He flew just over 275 meters, at an altitude of about five meters, over a lake in Quebec before losing power and falling in.

Led by vertebrate paleontologist Xiaolin Wang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, the scientists uncovered at least 215 eggs in a block of sandstone about 3 meters square.

At about a half - millionth of a meter across, Mimi is one of the few viruses visible under a standard light microscope.

Calculations predicted that the transition speed would be lower on the moon due to the reduced gravity, at about 0.86 meters per second, but lab simulations have suggested higher values than that.

At about 2 meters long, it was larger than other close relatives, walked on four feet instead of two, and had an unusually long neck and tail...

Working with the 340 - megapixel MegaCam camera on the 3.6 - meter Canada - France - Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, the team spent 5 years imaging 10 million galaxies at distances of about 6 billion light - years.