Sentences with phrase «cubic kilometers of»

From 1961 to 2005, the thickness of «small» glaciers decreased approximately 12 meters, or the equivalent of more than 9,000 cubic kilometers of water.

Two hundred million tons of sulphur dioxide were released and a 100 cubic kilometers of rock shot into the sky.

First, as was widely reported back in 2006 — and thus well known to Lomborg while writing Cool It — the first - ever gravity survey of the entire Antarctic ice sheet by NASA and German scientists using a satellite launched in 2002 found «Antarctica's ice sheet decreased by 152 (plus or minus 80) cubic kilometers of ice annually between April 2002 and August 2005.»

Such warming and associated acid rain becomes extreme when millions of cubic kilometers of basalt are erupted in much less than one million years.

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

Do, therefore, 200,000 cubic kilometers of Athabascan Tar sands need to be processed to provide just two years worth of potential Chinese consumption?

Each year Greenland loses some 51 cubic kilometers of ice, enough to annually raise sea level 0.13 millimeters.

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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».

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.