Sentences with phrase «cubic kilometers»

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.

This is compared to roughly 60 cubic kilometers per year for 1993 through 1994.

That's a volume of 30 cubic kilometers shifted about by people every year.

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

I am sure about the output in cubic kilometers from the glaciers and I am sure I am wrong as you point out with the Sverdrup calculation, haste made waste in this case.

To detect neutrinos, physicists plan to drill an «ice telescope» one cubic kilometer deep in Antarctica and fill it with 5,000 phototubes connected to the Internet.

Scientists there are turning an entire cubic kilometer of ice into a giant neutrino «telescope» by drilling thousands of holes deep into the clear ice and planting round photomultiplier tube sensors to capture light from ice - neutrino fender - benders.

Instead of drilling into ice, the new cubic kilometer neutrino telescope will sit on the seafloor, and aim to compliment IceCube in the collective hunt for high energy neutrinos.

GRACE shows a few hundred cubic kilometers coming of Greenland and Antarctica every year.

This process takes place in many cubic kilometers of cloud, within milliseconds, creating a decrease in pressure of 4 %.

Actually, humans produce more CO2 than volcanoes simply by extracting about 760 cubic kilometers annually of CO2 - saturated fossil artesian water for irrigation.

Simon your method makes me think that, my 361,000 cubic kilometers for a 1 meter rise is correct, the thing that I did want to point out is that the water needed to get a significant rise is huge.

According to PIOMAS, sea ice volume was around 12,000 cubic kilometers lower than in 1979.

This spurt has been linked to a cold event 8200 year ago, which apparently resulted from the catastrophic drainage of glacial Lakes Agassiz and Ojibway around 8400 yrs ago, releasing a volume of about 105 cubic kilometers within a few years or even less.

Besides, ice has been expanding in Antarctica over the last 30 years and, similarly, we observe in Greenland that the quantity of ice increased by 112 million cubic kilometers last year.

Generalized calving output by quadrant, in cubic kilometers per year water equivalent based on the assumption of an equilibrium state.

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

The planet has huge amounts of water — about 1,360,000,000 cubic kilometers.

Another submarine mega-slide 8,500 years ago off Norway moved a staggering 3,000 cubic kilometers, causing a damaging tsunami.

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

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

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.

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.

(For comparison, the Mount St. Helens disaster discharged about 1 cubic kilometer.)

In a review article recently published online in the journal Nature, researchers arrived at a new estimate for total usable global offshore groundwater: 500,000 cubic kilometers — a quantity 100 times greater than the amount of water extracted from land aquifers since 1900, the study states.

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.

An earlier estimate of fresh offshore groundwater was reported back in 2010, at 300,000 cubic kilometers.

Over the following months, it gushed 4.2 cubic kilometers of ice — enough to fill 1.7 million Olympic - size swimming pools — into the Barents Sea.

Even with a generous assumption that all Himalayan glacial melting since 1962 (roughly 13.4 cubic kilometers per year) was concentrated in the 150 - kilometer stretch of land closest to the study zone rather than spread across the entirety of the Himalayas, the scientists could explain, at most, 15 percent of the water loss in northwestern India.

The Long Valley system has the potential to release hundreds of cubic kilometers of ash in a single eruption.

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.

Last winter, the ice volume hit 15,000 cubic kilometers, an amount about half what it was 30 years ago, according to the agency.

But from 2003 to 2012, that number jumped to 310 cubic kilometers per year (plus or minus 74).

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

They found that the rate of ice loss from Antarctica is actually increasing by roughly 25 cubic kilometers a year.

From 1994 to 2003, the overall loss of ice shelf volume across the continent was negligible: about 25 cubic kilometers per year (plus or minus 64).

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.

For example, managing a given watershed may make more sense than managing the amount of global freshwater consumption to stay below an arbitrary, sustainable «limit» of 4,000 cubic kilometers per year.

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.

The melting then accelerated to 310 cubic kilometers — roughly twice the volume of Lake Tahoe — on average per year from 2003 to 2012.

The researchers discovered that Antarctic ice shelves shrank on average 25 cubic kilometers per year from 1994 to 2003.