Sentences with phrase «cubic kilometer of»

The only problem with all the predictions about the level of the World Ocean rising is that, the World Ocean is refusing to rise up in support of the predictions, the other problem is that ice is frozen fresh water and frozen fresh water only covers about 5 % of this planet above sea level and frozen water under the level of the World Ocean does not count as the World Ocean will fall a small amount if that ice melts, so if the ice there is enough to get the World Ocean to rise and significant amount then it must be piled up very high, I cubic kilometer of water as ice, should it melt, would make 1000 square kilometers rise by one meter, so when you use this simple math then somewhere on the planet, above the level of the sea, then there must be over 500,000 cubic kilometers of ice, piled up and just waiting to melt, strange that no one can find that amount of ice, all these morons who talk about the rise of the World Ocean in tens of meters, this includes you Peter Garrett or Mr. 7 Meters, the ice does not exist to allow this amount of rise in the World Ocean, it is just not there.

Latent heat to melt ice: 355,000 joules / kg x 1,000 kg / cubic meter x 10 ^ 9 cubic meter / cubic km = 3.55 x 10 ^ 17 joules to melt one cubic kilometer of ice.

In this way, an estimated 3.4 liters of helium are generated per year per cubic kilometer of the Earth's crust.

«To compare, Mount St. Helens erupted approximately one cubic kilometer of magma.»

Put next to each other, such cells could cover a cubic kilometer of water.

The South Pole detectors are looking for Cherenkov light emitted when muons hit the ice, and IceCube will be watching a cubic kilometer of ice for these ephemeral flashes.

The collaboration's report on the first cosmic neutrino records from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, collected from instruments embedded in one cubic kilometer of ice at the South Pole, was published Nov. 22 in the journal Science.

Among them: a 380,000 - liter tank full of dry - cleaning fluid in a South Dakota gold mine and a cubic kilometer of ice packed with light - sensitive orbs at the South Pole.

Yet when it broke loose, the slide transported over 30 cubic kilometers of material, and extended at least 35 kilometers.

These mega-slides can move thousands of cubic kilometers of material, and sometimes trigger tsunamis.

In contrast, the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991, put 10 cubic kilometers of ash, gas and other materials into the sky, and cooled the planet for a year.

On a yearly basis, nearly 63 cubic kilometers of water are drawn from the aquifer, whereas the Indian government estimates that roughly 45 cubic kilometers of water recharge the aquifer annually.

The heartland of last century's Green Revolution lost 109 cubic kilometers of water from its Indus River plain aquifer between August 2002 and October 2008.

It emitted the enormous amount of 2,800 cubic kilometers of volcanic material with a dramatic global impact on climate and environment.

As a result of such breakups, more than 150 cubic kilometers of glacial ice has slid off land into the ocean.

All told, an estimated 4 million cubic kilometers of molten material emanated from Siberian peaks and fissures over the course of about 800,000 years, with about two - thirds of that spilling forth before and during the mass extinction.

At their peak about 150 million years ago, the vents in the Arsia Mons» caldera probably collectively produced about 1 to 8 cubic kilometers of magma every million years, slowly adding to the volcano's size.

Over the course of 30 days or so, possibly less, about 93,000 cubic kilometers of water — almost 80 % of the volume of all free - flowing fresh water on Earth today — carved the 15 - km - wide, 2.5 - km - deep Aram Valley.

On August 26 and 27, 1883, the volcano Krakatau erupted in a catastrophic event that ejected about 20 cubic kilometers of material in an eruption column almost 40 kilometers high.

The more recent drought accounted for more than 10 cubic kilometers of water lost per year.

During the two drought periods, a total of 16.5 cubic kilometers and 40 cubic kilometers of water were lost, respectively, according to the study published in Geophysical Research Letters.

In 2008 a satellite study based on rates of snowfall and ice movement estimated a loss of 210 cubic kilometers of ice per year — a 59 percent increase in the past decade.

The Indonesian supervolcano Toba had one of these eruptions about 73000 years ago, when 2800 cubic kilometers of volcanic ash was ejected into the atmosphere and rained down and covered enormous areas in Indonesia and India.

For comparison: The Bárdabunga eruption blew out two cubic kilometers of volcanic material over the course of several months, nearly ten times more than the Eyjafjallajökull.

An eruption like this would see over 40 cubic kilometers of magma released in one burst, causing enormous damage.

Now, they have shown via computer simulation that, given more than a billion years, Martian winds were capable of digging up tens of thousands of cubic kilometers of sediment from the crater — largely thanks to turbulence, the swirling motion within the wind stream.

For instance, the large «Sunset Amphitheater» on the volcano's western face contains about 1.5 cubic kilometers of weak rock, rivaling the size of the debris flow 5600 years ago.

Warmth from the Earth has melted about 2000 cubic kilometers of water, making Lake Vostok by far the largest of more than 70 known lakes within the Antarctic ice.

Circling the South Pole, ANITA's antennas will scan a million cubic kilometers of ice at a time, looking for the telltale radio waves emitted when an ultrahigh - energy neutrino hits a nucleus in ice.

On a global scale, the new results suggest that humans use about 10,700 cubic kilometers of water per year, more than all the water in Lakes Michigan, Huron, Ontario and Erie combined.

Stanley Ambrose of the University of Illinois believes that the Toba eruption, which spewed up to 3,000 cubic kilometers of material, caused so much death that only about 10,000 adult humans survived, and that all modern humans descend from that tiny population.

She found that two of the deposits would have created lakes containing around 40 cubic kilometers of water each.

Another of the formations would have created around 20 cubic kilometers of water.

There's 5,400 cubic kilometers of water into the lake, [and] it would just keep blasting out until it degassed.»

For comparison, the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 produced only 4.2 cubic kilometers of material.

Supervolcano isn't a true scientific term, Benson explained, but generally refers to a volcanic eruption that produces at least 1,000 cubic kilometers of material.

Scientists originally thought the Alaska region lost 50 gigatons of mass, or 50 cubic kilometers of water, a year.

Mauna Loa's Most Spectacular Eruption began on June 1, 1950; lasted 23 days; and produced 0.376 cubic kilometers of lava.

It launched 100 cubic kilometers of ash into the upper atmosphere, causing 1816, in many parts of the world, to be the «year without summer».

When this occurs in ice sheets containing half a million (or more) cubic kilometers of ice; then, there is a sea level rise event.

The question relates to a major collapse of the sheet sufficient to free many cubic kilometers of ice into the sea where it would melt more rapidly.

In our paper, based on data from Jason Box from the Geologic Survey of Denmark and Greenland, we estimated that the Greenland ice sheet has already come out of equilibrium since the beginning of the 20th century and has since added about 13,000 cubic kilometers of meltwater to the ocean.

In the Arctic, for example, data collected by Europe's Cryosat spacecraft pointed to about 9,000 cubic kilometers of ice at the end of the 2013 melt season.

Hi All, Just a tidbit bit of info: It would take 9137 cubic kilometers of ice melting to raise the sea level one inch.

If all 22.6 million cubic kilometers of freshwater stored underground reached the oceans, sea level would rise 204 feet (62,430 millimeters).

Ice sheet mass decreased at 152 ± 80 cubic kilometers of ice per year, equal to 0.4 ± 0.2 millimeters of sea level rise per year.

By the end of summer 2011, only 7000 cubic kilometers of sea ice remained.

Peter Garrett, said «seven meters» and other have said far larger figures then my math still works, as long as the two variables are ignored that is, so in a case where the sea may rise 7 meters then the water needed would be 2,527,000 cubic kilometers of water and in one mass then that would be a cube of water with the side over 134 kilometers, those two variables that I can not deal with are exponential, that is, the higher you go the greater they get.

I personally think that top get a 1 meter rise and include the fact that there would be massive inland flooding then you may well need 450,000 cubic kilometers of water to be dumped into the World Ocean.

You can't seriously be suggesting that one thermometer can give the average temperature of thousands of cubic kilometers of water to an accuracy of 0.001 degree?