Sentences with phrase «cubic kilometre»

The oceans hold three billion cubic kilometres of water, more that enough for any imaginable need.

According to the new analysis, the amount of ice loss due to glacier glacial flow rose from 50 cubic kilometres per year in 1996 to 150 km3 in 2005.

one cubic kilometre over 1,000 years, which is unusually high for a relatively small volcano.

This is the reason why the IceCube Neutrino Observatory has thousands of detectors buried deep within the Antarctic ice, and why the KM3NeT (an acronym for Cubic Kilometre Neutrino Telescope) collaboration wants to construct the world's largest neutrino detector in the depths of the Mediterranean Sea.

A third of the permanent snow and ice on New Zealand's Southern Alps has now disappeared, according to research based on aerial surveys by the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research.The researchers say that that since 1977, the volume of ice on the nation's Southern Alps has shrunk by more than 18 cubic kilometres [continue reading...]

As interplanetary dust is thought to have rained down on early Earth, it is likely that the stuff brought water to our planet, although it is difficult to conceive how it could account for the millions of cubic kilometres of water that cover Earth today.

«However, our results also show that a relatively small increase in the long - term magma recharge from about one to five cubic kilometres in 1,000 years would recreate conditions favouring a catastrophic supervolcanic eruption.

For short periods, it peaked at ice loss rates of over 3000 cubic kilometres per year.»

India pumps 190 cubic kilometres of water a year from below ground, but only 120 cubic kilometres is replenished naturally, says the report.

According to the EEA, 285 cubic kilometres of freshwater are extracted in Europe annually, equal to two Olympic swimming polls per capita.

«A supervolcanic eruption spews out more than 1,000 cubic kilometres of magma, which accumulated over time in reservoirs close the earth's surface,» explains Prof. Dr Axel Schmitt of the Institute of Earth Sciences.

Taking into account melting ice shelves, melting Arctic sea ice and the increase of Antarctic sea ice — which removes water from the oceans — they estimate that about 746 cubic kilometres of ice are melting each year, overall (Geophysical Research Letters, DOI: 10.1029 / 2010GL042496).

Tiwari and colleagues calculate that between 2002 and 2008 an average of 54 cubic kilometres — enough to fill more than 21 million Olympic swimming pools — was lost every year.

GREENLAND lost 1500 cubic kilometres of ice between 2000 and 2008, making it responsible for one - sixth of global sea - level rise.

Estimated changes in the mass of Greenland's ice sheet suggest it is melting at a rate of about 239 cubic kilometres (57.3 cubic miles) per year.

About 100,000 cubic kilometres of material had to be removed to form the scar, which is five times the width and depth of the Grand Canyon.

The IceCube neutrino telescope monitors a cubic kilometre of ice at the South Pole.

Volumes range from a few hundred cubic metres to more than a thousand cubic kilometres, and the larger ones can travel for hundreds of kilometres although none on that scale have occurred for several hundred thousand years.

IceCube monitors a cubic kilometre of ice at the South Pole.

This released a huge volume of water, estimated at between 12 and 17 cubic kilometres, two to three times as much as contained by Loch Ness in Scotland.

Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, has about 100 cubic kilometres of frozen water at its poles, suggest measurements by NASA's Messenger spacecraft.

However, flood basalts erupted hundreds of thousands of cubic kilometres in under a million years, whereas hot - spot volcanoes released no more than 5 to 10 cubic kilometres in the space of two years, says Robert Poreda of the University of Rochester in New York State.

Two new studies indicate that at least some of the 2 million cubic kilometres of lava which spread over parts of Siberia 250 million years ago came from the lower mantle, up to 2900 kilometres below the Earth's surface, and a small fraction may even have come from the core itself.

But 30 dams on the Guadalquivir, with a total capacity of more than 4 cubic kilometres of water, plus local irrigation schemes, have caused water tables in the wetland to fall by up to 50 centimetres a year.

This is just one of 80 such strings that will make up the IceCube Neutrino Observatory — an audacious attempt to turn a cubic kilometre of clear Antarctic ice into the world's largest neutrino detector.

Small eruptions that erupt less than one cubic kilometre of material occur very frequently (daily to yearly), whilst the largest eruptions that erupt hundreds of cubic kilometres of material are infrequent, with hundreds of thousands of years between them.

James Famiglietti at the University of California, Irvine, used the twin GRACE satellites to find that 20 cubic kilometres of groundwater had disappeared from beneath the valley between October 2003 and March 2010.

This rapidly increased gas pressure eventually allowed the magma to rupture the overlying crust, and send thousands of cubic kilometres of magma into the atmosphere,» explains Dr. Frances Deegan at the Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University.

It makes up about 75 per cent of the known Universe, and here on Earth there are more than 100 million tonnes of it in every cubic kilometre of seawater.

Measuring at least 7500 cubic kilometres, it could flush into the Atlantic Ocean and slow the Gulf Stream, bringing colder winters to Europe.

Analysis is ongoing, for example, on data collected by AMANDA's successor IceCube, which fills 1 cubic kilometre of ice and is set to be completed later this year.

«Our model experiments show that from 15000 to 13000 years ago, the Eurasian ice sheet lost 750 cubic kilometres of ice a year.

A cubic kilometre of ice is difficult to imagine, but think of a cube that is 1 km long on each side: It will contain 1,000,000,000 tonnes of water.

«This is all that remains after a massive collapse of sediment of about 32 cubic kilometres» volume more than 300,000 years ago,» he said.

Now measurements by NASA's Messenger spacecraft suggest there is about 100 cubic kilometres of frozen water at the planet's poles — roughly enough to fill the Dead Sea.

The IceCube telescope monitors a cubic kilometre of ice beneath the South Pole for neutrinos of various types, including the cosmic variety.

The next largest is IceCube, which will monitor a cubic kilometre of Antarctic ice using buried detectors to look for flashes of light generated by neutrinos hitting the ice.

The balloon will take ANITA up to 38 kilometres over the Antarctic ice cap, where it will circle the South Pole, allowing its antennas to scan a million cubic kilometres of ice at a time (10 to 15 per cent of the whole continent), making this the largest neutrino detector by far.

At approximately 23,000 cubic kilometres, its water volume is even larger than that of the Baltic Sea.

The headline stat was that up to 450 cubic kilometres of water are «appropriated» globally by land - grabbers each year.

But that makes the claim that 450 cubic kilometres of water have already been grabbed extremely misleading.

This ice sheet is losing mass at a rather larger rate (around 220 cubic kilometres per year) and it will take only another 1 - 2 oC world warming to raise the summer melt zone to the top of the Greenland ice pack after which point, in my understanding, the ice sheet will go into irreversible melt.

So if as Arc says the ocean is 360 million sq km, then 2m rise is 720,000 cubic kilometres in a hundred years.

Recent estimates put India's annual abstraction for irrigation at 250 cubic kilometres per year, about 100 cubic kilometres more than what is replaced by rains.