Sentences with phrase «cubic kilometres of»

assuming it is correct as asserted by Alastiar McDonald that the Arctic has lost 14,000 cubic kilometres of ice since 1980... (any reference anyone?)

The 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, for example, ejected at least five cubic kilometres of ash and gas which rapidly spread around the globe, decreasing the average global temperature by 0.5 C.

In 1883 Krakatoa ejected 12 cubic kilometres of material.

This allowed the complete pattern of ice flow to be mapped, revealing that the regions glaciers are now pouring an additional 15 cubic kilometres of ice into the oceans each year compared to the 1990s.

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

Every one of those cubic miles contains 4 (yes, rounded again) cubic kilometres of sea water.

For example, the dwarf planet Ceres: «This 100 km - thick mantle (23 % — 28 % of Ceres by mass; 50 % by volume) contains 200 million cubic kilometres of water, which is more than the amount of fresh water on the Earth.»

If the 1.441 mm depth had warmed by 0.700 C same as the ocean - air interface then oceans would gain no heat, but the massive colder oceans below will only let 1.441 mm to < several tens - to - hundreds of metres > depth warm by 0.697 C and only when the entire ocean has warmed by 0.700 C in a few thousand years will it let that 1.441 mm depth warm the final 0.003 C and stop heat gain with 4,100 ZettaJoules of heat having been added to the oceans, enough to melt 13,666,666 cubic kilometres of ice.

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

«Ice loss is about 4.5 cubic kilometres of ice a year.»

The STIP erupted over one million cubic kilometres of lava, a large portion of it through a series of flat - lying lava conduits lying below Norilsk and the Talnakh Mountains.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

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

Supervolcanoes are capable of releasing more than 1000 cubic kilometres of material in one eruption, enough to cover an entire continent with ash.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

In a typical urban area with a high level of background air pollution — for example, around 15 micrograms of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) per cubic metre, or a nitrogen dioxide concentration around 33 micrograms per cubic metre — an extra 300 trees per square kilometre was associated with around 50 fewer emergency asthma cases per 100,000 residents over the 15 year study period.

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.

Ten billion cubic metres of rock crashed down the mountain and smothered 370 square kilometres of land, travelling 95 kilometres in total (Global and Planetary Change, DOI: 10.1016 / j.gloplacha.2010.08.003).

Over 100 million cubic metres of debris travelled 20 kilometres.

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

«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.

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.

At close to 8,000 cubic kilometres (cubic km), total sea ice volume in November stood at just 48 % of the long - term average and the smallest of any November in the satellite record stretching back to 1979.

objectives include: Year 6 objectives • solve problems involving the calculation and conversion of units of measure, using decimal notation up to 3 decimal places where appropriate • use, read, write and convert between standard units, converting measurements of length, mass, volume and time from a smaller unit of measure to a larger unit, and vice versa, using decimal notation to up to 3 decimal places • convert between miles and kilometres • recognise that shapes with the same areas can have different perimeters and vice versa • recognise when it is possible to use formulae for area and volume of shapes • calculate the area of parallelograms and triangles • calculate, estimate and compare volume of cubes and cuboids using standard units, including cubic centimetres (cm ³) and cubic metres (m ³), and extending to other units [for example, mm ³ and km ³] • express missing number problems algebraically • find pairs of numbers that satisfy an equation with 2 unknowns • enumerate possibilities of combinations of 2 variables • draw 2 - D shapes using given dimensions and angles • recognise, describe and build simple 3 - D shapes, including making nets • compare and classify geometric shapes based on their properties and sizes and find unknown angles in any triangles, quadrilaterals, and regular polygons • illustrate and name parts of circles, including radius, diameter and circumference and know that the diameter is twice the radius • recognise angles where they meet at a point, are on a straight line, or are vertically opposite, and find missing angles • describe positions on the full coordinate grid (all 4 quadrants) • draw and translate simple shapes on the coordinate plane, and reflect them in the axes • interpret and construct pie charts and line graphs and use these to solve problems • calculate and interpret the mean as an average • read, write, order and compare numbers up to 10,000,000 and determine the value of each digit • round any whole number to a required degree of accuracy and more!

With a cubic capacity of 2.2 litres, the CLA 220 CDI will offer an output of 125 kW (170 hp) and 350 Nm of torque, emitting only 109 g CO2 per kilometre.

Estimates suggest that the total volume of magma involved was staggering, ranging between 5 and 10 million cubic kilometres.

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.

«Cryosat found the volume (area multiplied by thickness) of sea ice in the central Arctic in March 2011 to have been 14,500 cubic kilometres.

A 3500 kilometre long chain of pipelines starting in Azerbaijan's Shah Deniz II offshore gas field, this project is designed to pump annually ten billion cubic metres of fossil gas to Europe starting 2020, in addition to six billion cubic metres of gas that could arrive to Turkey as early as this year.

«Globally, the blue water footprint (i.e., the consumption of surface and groundwater resources) of food wastage is about 250 cubic kilometres, which is equivalent to the annual water discharge of the Volga river [in Russia], or three times the volume of [Switzerland's] Lake Geneva.

As a percentage change in temperature for entire ocean, it is small - because you need gigantic amounts of energy to shift the temperature of 1.3 billion cubic kilometres by 1 degree.

The current volume of ice on Antarctica is 30 million cubic kilometres according to this source.