Sentences with phrase «by about a meter»

According to Lagomasino, preliminary data shows the height of the canopy decreased by about a meter and a half as taller trees were toppled.

The lowest place on earth, exploited by industry and deprived of its water sources, the Sea is disappearing at an astounding pace, its waterline retreating by about a meter every year.

Not exact matches

A 10 foot by 20 foot (3 by 6 meter) outdoor enclosure slightly extends their world, but just for about an hour and a half each day, according to testimony by Mark Bezy, a former federal prison warden.

They use a millimeter wave (mmW) radar seeker with a semi-active laser (SAL) that enables final guidance to the target by either the launching platform or another plane, and are perfect to destroy a vehicle with very low collateral damage risk, and an accuracy of about 1 - 2 meters.

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.

This level of electricity reduced the metered demand on the grid by about the same amount, suggesting that the total solar share of gross demand probably exceeded 50 % during the mid-day hours.

My plan was to write about how Golden Star had drilled a number of holes that extended the depth of their Wassa underground by 180 meters, that this would add a lot of resource to the mine, and that it was not priced into the stock.

High - value crops such as vegetables, citrus fruits, grapes and apricots can by grown in the Middle East if 5,000 to 8,000 cubic meters of water (about 1.7 million gallons) per hectare (2.47 acres) are provided each year.

Covering an area of approximately 10,000 square meters in the small town of Kankaanpää, about three hours by car from Helsinki in the southwest of Finland...

Just Saying No I was touched by Rick Reilly's column about Nick End, the Carnegie Mellonrunner who was disqualified from the NCAA Division III 10,000 - meter finalbecause his coach, Dario Donatelli, clicked the wrong button on the onlineentry form.

Torrence caught Privalova with only 20 meters to go and won by about half a meter, giving the U.S. a time of 42.11 to the Unified Team's 42.16.

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?

Even the World Bank pre-paid meters that were installed about 3 years ago have been deliberately damaged by AEDC personnel in order to continue to extort money from us.

INWOOD — Spurred by confusion about the city's new Muni - Meters among many Spanish - speaking drivers, Upper Manhattan community leaders held a walking tour in Inwood Monday to help explain how the new machines work.

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 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.

Say Moscow was suddenly obliterated by a huge 20 - megaton explosion, which is about what a 100 - meter object would provide.

Over a span of hundreds of thousands of kilometers, their vertical thickness typically varies by only about 10 meters.

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.

By measuring the radio - signal strength from all the transceivers while Wilson walked around inside the array, the system could calculate his location with an accuracy of about 1 meter.

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 royal complex covered about 50 by 60 meters, comprising almost 50 rooms on the ground floor alone.

But by 2009, the dam's water level is set to be raised to its full 575 - foot capacity and then lowered about 100 feet (30 meters) during flood season.

Sea level was down by probably about 120 meters [400 feet]-- there was a lot more land in that area.

The tsunami reached the coastline quickly; in some places the water had surged by more than three meters within about half an hour of the earthquake, according to data from the Japan Meteorological Agency.

It is estimated by astronomers that only about 27 percent of the NEAs that are 460 feet (140 meters) and larger have been found to date.

As Stephen C. Riser and M. Susan Lozier note in their February 2013 Scientific American article, «Rethinking the Gulf Stream,» «A comparison of the Argo data with ocean observations from the 1980s, carried out by Dean Roemmich and John Gilson of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, shows that the upper few hundred meters of the oceans have warmed by about 0.2 degree C in the past 20 years.

This tubby fish, about a meter long, swims by flapping its pectoral fins.

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.

The deposit there is about 1,500 meters long by 100 meters wide (about a mile long and 300 feet wide), but Nautilus can not say how deep it is — except that in many places it is deeper than the 20 - meter (about 65 - foot) exploratory holes that the company has drilled into it.

These precursory surface movements covered a much larger area — about 1,640 by 1,640 feet, (500 by 500 meters)-- than that of the initial sinkhole, which measured about 2 acres (1 hectare).

The researchers used a small boat to tow an array of underwater microphones, called hydrophones, about 2 meters below the surface and recorded the sounds of individual dolphins identified by their dorsal fins.

Upon closer examination of the data — compiled from nearly 500 hours of observation by the 64 - meter Parkes radio telescope in Australia — a team led by astronomer Duncan Lorimer of West Virginia University in Morgantown estimated that the blast actually came from about 3 billion light - years away.

By now, the fossils have made it clear that these pioneers were startlingly primitive, with small bodies about 1.5 meters tall, simple tools, and brains one - third to one - half the size of modern humans».

A report about U.S. oil and gas exploration in the Arctic published last month by the National Petroleum Council found most drilling opportunities under America's jurisdiction are less than 100 meters below the ocean's surface, more shallow - than - standard depths in other drill regions, like the Gulf of Mexico.

Small towns facing the impact of an asteroid 30 meters across (about 98 feet) may fare best by evacuating.

If that is successful — and everything thus far has been a big «if» — BP wants to create a more durable LMRP containment cap system by directing the oil and gas to a new free - floating riser ending about 90 meters below sea level (a flexible hose will be used to connect it to vessels on the surface).

This photo shows the Yarlung Tsangpo Valley close to the Tsangpo Gorge, where it is rather narrow and underlain by only about 250 meters of sediments.

A 100 - year survey shows that the optimal elevations for growth of plant species in European temperate forests have shifted upward by about 30 meters per decade.

But by the time of T. rex's heyday, about 68 million years ago, the ferocious beast was up to 12 meters long, as long as a truck trailer.

The concept was straightforward — design and build a robot that could pick up inflatable game pieces (triangles, circles and squares each about a meter in the diameter) and hang them on pegs protruding from walls on either side of the 8.2 - by 16.4 - meter playing floor.

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.

In Antarctica's cold, where fish have natural antifreeze in their blood, McClintock accompanied other researchers as they angled for giant Antarctic toothfish by dropping a 450 - meter - long line through a meter - wide hole drilled in the sea ice about five kilometers offshore.

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.

Materials • Two «two - by - four» or similar size wood planks, about one half meter long works best • Small plastic tub with lid • Sand or another dense material to fill the tub • Water • Freezer • Books • Ruler • Protractor • A carpeted area or a rug that can get damp (or a protective covering, such as a large plastic trash bag) Preparation • Make sure that the pieces of wood have surfaces that are similar in roughness and are about the same length and width.

The «microscale magnetic tumbling robot,» or μTUM (microTUM), is about 400 by 800 microns, or millionths of a meter, smaller than the head of a pin.

The researchers produced a power density of about 60 watts per square meter over multiple cycles, which is six to 10 times higher than the power density produced by other liquid - based thermal - electric energy conversion systems.

In one department, for example, they discovered that although both male and female junior faculty members had roughly 185 square meters of lab space, senior male faculty members had about 280 square meters, whereas their female counterparts had the same amount as their juniors, according to unpublished charts assembled by the committee.

The scientists detailed their best effort to come up with estimates of carbon cycling in three subsets of coastal areas: those dominated by river outlets, others consisting of filtering estuaries and bays, and the continental shelf — any coastal water reaching a depth of about 200 meters or fewer.