Sentences with phrase «average elevation of»

The Mountain State is home to countless mountain - traversing motorcycle riders, as the state falls entirely within the Appalachian Mountain range and has an average elevation of 1,500 feet above sea level.

To take a simple example, the city of Miami lies at an average elevation of only about 2 meters above sea level.

At the average elevation of Mars I once calculated that you are looking through 27 times the amount of CO2 that you do on the Earth at sea level.

The oceans are far deeper than the continents are tall; examination of the Earth's hypsographic curve shows that the average elevation of Earth's landmasses is only 840 metres (2,760 ft), while the ocean's average depth is 3,800 metres (12,500 ft).

The Central Sierra highlands maintain an average elevation of 9,000 feet (2743 m), resulting in daytime temperatures that range from 50 °F (10 °C) to 60 °F (15.6 °C).

Are we in the Anthropocene and no longer in the Australia has some impressive «high country» but it is in fact the lowest continent in the world with an average elevation of just 330 metres.

Australia has some impressive «high country» but it is in fact the lowest continent in the world with an average elevation of just 330 metres.

Three major landforms, Uplands, Old Fluvial / Deltaic Plains and Young Fluvial Plains are identified from the Lower Gangetic Plains of West Bengal, India, on Australia has some impressive «high country» but it is in fact the lowest continent in the world with an average elevation of just 330 metres.

* Correction, 4 April, 10:30 a.m.: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated the average elevation of the Tibetan Plateau.

It has an area of 2.5 million square kilometers (about a quarter of the U.S. landmass) and an average elevation of over 4,500 meters.

At the current rates that the sea is rising and land is sinking, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists say by 2100 the Gulf of Mexico could rise as much as 4.3 feet across this landscape, which has an average elevation of about 3 feet.

Not exact matches

At that elevation of earnings (indeed, even when earnings have been within 20 % of that 6 % trendline), the P / E ratio for the S&P 500 has historically averaged just 9 or 10, compared with the current level of 18.

«Low sodium intake reduces blood pressure modestly, compared to average intake, but low sodium intake also has other effects, including adverse elevations of certain hormones which may outweigh any benefits.

Nine of the 10 moved up the mountain, altogether averaging a 213 - foot gain in elevation.

Ruiz, who contributed to the report, noted that an analysis of weather records at one páramo research station showed increases in minimum temperatures were almost twice that of lower elevations, while increases in maximum temperatures jumped to nearly three times the average at lower elevations.

The full range of topography on Mars is about 19 miles (30 kilometers), one and a half times the range of elevations found on Earth, The most curious aspect of the map is the striking difference between the planet's low, smooth Northern Hemisphere and the heavily cratered Southern Hemisphere,» which sits, on average, about three miles (five kilometers) higher than the north.

The relationship between the following covariates and podoconiosis prevalence was explored: elevation and derived slope; long - term average of precipitation; enhanced vegetation index (EVI); clay and silt content of the top soil (0 — 15 cm), and night light - emissivity (see Supplementary File 1).

Northwestern Montana receives an average of 9.4 inches (23.9 cm) of winter precipitation, but locally, and at higher elevations within the mountains, this value can increase to greater than 20 inches (50.8 cm).

At an elevation of 2,835 meters (9,300 feet), South Pole has an average monthly temperature in the austral summer of -28 °C -LRB--18 °F); in the austral winter, the average monthly temperature is -60 °C -LRB--76 °F).

(The next day I'll do a quick calculation on my iPhone that shows we averaged 26.4 mpg overall during our trip, 2.4 mpg better than the EPA's estimated combined mileage but 3.6 mpg less than the EPA's estimated highway mileage, which sort of makes sense since we drove up and down through so much elevation.)

There are no EPA estimates available regarding fuel economy, but even with my rather exuberant driving in a mixture of speeds, elevations, and traffic patterns, I averaged about 33 mpg.

At present the «Kona Coffee Belt» — an area extending about 22 miles long and two miles wide from North Kona through South Kona at elevations of between 700 ′ to 2400 ′ above sea level — is home to more than 650 coffee farms with an average size of about 5 acres.

Willow Springs International Motorsports Park With a blistering lap time of just 1 minute 6 seconds held by legendary racer Michael Andretti, the 9 - turn track is the oldest permanent road course in the United States with elevation changes and high average speeds making it a favourite amongst drivers.

The warming trends in looking at numerous 100 year temperature plots from northern and high elevation climate stations... i.e. warming trends in annual mean and minimum temperature averages, winter monthly means and minimums and especially winter minimum temperatures and dewpoints... indicate climate warming that is being driven by the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere — no visible effects from other things like changes in solar radiation or the levels of cosmic rays.

[Response: They measure something different (MSU - TLT is a weighted average of temperatures reaching from the surface to 10 km, peaking at around ~ 4 km and with significant influence from surface type depending on elevation and polar latitude).

This leads to a higher equilibrium temperature, but balance is reestablished again in a sense that time averages of energy in - and - out are equal for each volume element, given some fixed elevation of greenhouse gas concentration.

Over the long - term, melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could yield as much as 10 to 14 feet of global average sea level rise, with local sea level rise varying considerably depending on land elevation trends, ocean currents and other factors.

This latter region lies at an elevation of over 4500m on average, meaning that there is strong warming over a significant depth in the troposphere.

Average snowfall is influenced by a resort's elevation and the frequency of winter storms and precipitation.

Of the radiant energy reaching the top of the atmosphere, 46 percent is absorbed by Earth's surface on average, but this value varies significantly from place to place, depending on cloudiness, surface type, and elevatioOf the radiant energy reaching the top of the atmosphere, 46 percent is absorbed by Earth's surface on average, but this value varies significantly from place to place, depending on cloudiness, surface type, and elevatioof the atmosphere, 46 percent is absorbed by Earth's surface on average, but this value varies significantly from place to place, depending on cloudiness, surface type, and elevation.

It uses the power output at 30 minute intervals over 2 years and calculates the amount of hydro capacity and storage and the area that would be inundated if pairs of dams with 150 m average elevation difference were available.

In an earlier posting, I pointed out the striking change in altitude of samples at this site, with 13th century samples averaging from an altitude of about 310 m. (NATO 1996, Figure 4, top panel), while modern samples all come from between 200 and 250 m. Briffa says that the elevations of the subfossil cores are known precisely, but not the modern cores (p. 35).

«Calculating the annual average temperature of the 119 temperature gauges in Nepal located at elevations on between 72 m and 4100 m, reveals an upward trend in values from 1961 — 1996 at a rate of almost 7C per 100 years (or 0.07 C / year)»

Here is a graph of global average annual relative humidity at various elevations in the atmosphere expressed in milli - bars (mb) from 300 mb to 700 mb for the period 1948 to 2008.

We posit that these characteristics are the result of demonstrable differences between corresponding topographical datasets used in the gridded observations and CRCM, the resulting errors propagated to physical variables tied to elevation and the beneficial effect of subsequent spatial averaging.

As proof of warmer average temperatures in northern Europe, they cite the existence of wheat cultivation and vineyards at latitudes and elevations that were far higher than today.

A measurement comparing these systems demonstrates an unprecedented atomic clock instability of 1.6 × 10 ^ -18 after only 7 hours of averaging... Clock measurement at the 10 ^ -18 level can be used to resolve spatial and temporal fluctuations equivalent to 1 cm of elevation in Earth's gravitational field (25 — 28), potentially impacting geodesy, hydrology, geology, and climate change studies.

In 2005 the Greenland ice sheet lost around 53 cubic miles (220 cubic kilometers) of mass — more than two times the amount it lost in 1996 (22 cubic miles, or 90 cubic kilometers).5 The melt area set a new record in 2007: it was about 60 percent larger than the previous record in 1998, and extended farther inland.7, 8 By 2007 the melt season at elevations above 6,500 feet (2,000 meters) was a month longer than the average from 1988 to 2006.9

I have seen very slow growth rates in larch from northern Siberia, but as you can see in the Salzer et al figure 4a the growth rates of the high elevation trees are ~ 0.4 mm on average compared to ~ 0.2 mm for the lower, precip limited site.

Two summers back, here within view of Colorado Springs» Waldo Canyon conflagration, I vividly recall some details: a) a hoisted ember astonishingly re-igniting things across a mile wide mountain lake, breaching the NE perimeter; b) our relative humidity, the day of the blaze, was so low the am weatherman uttering «you night as well say we have none;» c) the flown - in Commander, on camera and perhaps the best mind in all the world on matters such, describing never before witnessed probabilities for live ember re-ignitions, as «perhaps two out of three;» & d) that sad day's all - time record setting mark of 101 F., here @ 6,500 feet + elevations, in that astonishing summer where lower - 48 averages jumped by more than a single degree Fahrenheit in one realm - altering excursion.

The most likely candidate for that climatic variable force that comes to mind is solar variability (because I can think of no other force that can change or reverse in a different trend often enough, and quick enough to account for the historical climatic record) and the primary and secondary effects associated with this solar variability which I feel are a significant player in glacial / inter-glacial cycles, counter climatic trends when taken into consideration with these factors which are, land / ocean arrangements, mean land elevation, mean magnetic field strength of the earth (magnetic excursions), the mean state of the climate (average global temperature), the initial state of the earth's climate (how close to interglacial - glacial threshold condition it is) the state of random terrestrial (violent volcanic eruption, or a random atmospheric circulation / oceanic pattern that feeds upon itself possibly) / extra terrestrial events (super-nova in vicinity of earth or a random impact) along with Milankovitch Cycles.

The elevation that year of CO2 at MLO above the global average was the highest recorded in the 27 years between 1982 and 2008 - presumably as a consequence of the 1998 El Nino.

The antarctic continent may not have been something you would call a continent before it when south - or one could say it is a continent that was built of glacier ice - making it the continent with highest average elevation.

It's actually somewhat difficult to define the average temperature of a region, because of things like the changes in temperature with elevation over even short distances.

The elevation that year of CO2 at MLO above the global average was only 0.197 % above the global average, at 363.56 ppmv.

I estimate the cost and land area that would have to be inundated by pairs of hydro reservoirs, with 150 m average elevation difference, to store sufficient energy to power Australia's eastern electricity system (NEM), if all electricity was generated by PV panels at a single location.

A comparison of glacier surface elevation in 1983 and 2002 identifies the average thinning in the twenty year period from the USGS aerial photography in 1983 to 2002, for the northern branch is 15 m.

The model ensembles also agree that mean winter temperatures are likely to be warmer than average all up and down the Pacific Coast, which suggests that the elevation of the mean snow line will probably be higher than average yet again this coming winter.

For example, average overnight temperatures can be significantly cooler at the bottom of a valley than at higher elevations.

In total, 180 coastal municipalities in the conterminous U.S.A. with populations over 50,000 have an average of 36 % of their land area at or below 6 meters of elevation and connected to the sea.