Sentences with phrase «cubic metres from»

Only about 40 % of the water reaches the crops, while evaporation in the hot sun takes more than two metres of water a year from the reservoirs - a total of around 300m cubic metres from Elephant Butte alone.

But the NRA says it wants to extract more than 50 million cubic metres from the bank over the next 50 years, as part of a # 200 million beach rebuilding programme.

Not exact matches

Beyond this explanation, the workings of the machine — a 37 - cubic - metre black box in which a thumbnail - sized superconducting chip is cooled to within 0.01 degrees of absolute zero — are shielded from the layperson's understanding by the opacities of quantum theory.

Workers extracted 170,000 cubic metres of dirt, and had to underpin two neighbouring buildings to prevent them from toppling into the giant crater.

If they enable new production, then the case for considering the GHGs associated with a projected growth from 447,900 cubic metres (2.8 million barrels) per day in 2010 to 990,800 cubic metres (6.2 million barrels) per day by 2035 (NGP Report, Volume II, s. 3.1) seems quite strong.

In 2011, more than 5.5 million cubic metres of raw logs were exported from British Columbia, resulting in mill closures and thousands of lost job opportunities.

CST Wastewater Solutions» current major FAST project, scheduled to be completed this year, involves combination units with total capacities from 100 to more than 300 cubic metres a day.

The study challenges the estimate by federal officials, based on the amount of oil on the sea surface, that around 5000 barrels (800 cubic metres) of oil per day are pouring into the sea from the site where the BP - operated drilling rig Deepwater Horizon was destroyed by fire last month.

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.

According to research by the Netherlands Committee of the World Conservation Union (IUCN), the SFID alone exports more than 250 000 cubic metres of logs a year from Cameroon.

Just after midnight on 14 December 1991, 12 million cubic metres of rock and ice peeled away from the summit of New Zealand's highest mountain.

The amount of gas from an identical wet cell over the same period was 5842 cubic metres — more than eleven times as much.

The study shows that the annual volume of SGD for the whole Mediterranean basin ranges from 30 to 500 billion cubic metres, which demonstrates that this process is relevant at large scale and its discharge is similar or up to 15 times greater than that of river water inputs.

Dr Anja Schmidt from the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds, who led the study, said: «The eruption discharged lava at a rate of more than 200 cubic metres per second, which is equivalent to filling five Olympic - sized swimming pools in a minute.

By JAMES PAPIKE and JOHN EICHELBERGEREighty years ago, 12 cubic metres of molten rock burst from the ground in the wilderness of southwest Alaska.

In the study, risks from pollution exposures were reported in units of 10 micrograms per cubic metre of air.

Eighty years ago, 12 cubic metres of molten rock burst from the ground in the wilderness of southwest Alaska.

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!

Load volumes in the Vito vans run from 5.5 cubic metres to 6.6 cubic metres, while payloads go up to 1,369 kg.

From a displacement of 2996 cubic centimetres, it delivers an output of 367 hp and a torque of up to 520 newton metres.

Load volumes extend from 8 cubic metres in the L1 H1 (short wheelbase, low roof) model to 17 cubic metres in the L4 H3 (extra long wheelbase, high roof) version.

Bishop's land brings with it legal rights to 10m cubic metres of water a year from the river - enough to flood his fields to a depth of more than a metre, enough to grow almost any crop he wants.

We can transport up to to 15 tons and more than 36 cubic metres it is great for bulk heavy goods such as steel pillars, walls, concrete or generators from Lombok to Gili in fewer journeys.

The flow speed of the Euphrates, which runs from Turkey through Syria, is currently only 230 cubic metres (8,100 cubic feet) per second, down from the 2000 level of 950 cubic metres per second.

MacDougall et al vary the carbon concentration of the permafrost from 15.8 to 26.3 kg / cubic metre, which leads to a range of 837-1206 PgC (billion tonnes of carbon) for the upper 3.5 metres of permafrost.

Estimates of the amount of oil they contain vary hugely, but Navigant, a consultancy, reckons that North America could produce anything from 26.9 - 53.5 trillion cubic metres of shale gas alone, enough to satisfy the world's total current demand for gas for up to 15 years, though at today's prices not all of it would yet be worth extracting.

The Trans Adriatic Pipeline is part of the «Southern Gas Corridor» — a chain of proposed mega-pipelines that would pump billions of cubic metres of gas from Azerbaijan to Europe every year.

Modelling results suggest monthly average levels of ozone could reach around 110 µg / m3 (micrograms per cubic metre) over central France in July 2100, an increase of 50 µg / m3 from the year 1990.

The authors show that damage caused by forest disturbance has increased continuously over the last 40 years in Europe, reaching 56 million cubic metres of timber annually in the years from 2002 to 2010.

Global Witness» investigations reveal that China is the lead importer of timber from Burma which amounts to more than one million cubic metres a year at a value of around US$ 250 million.

That would have needed a factor of 80 for every cubic metre of perennial Arctic ice melted, along with the same factor for every cubic meter of ice calved and melted from the base of the Antarctic ice shelves.

The USA and Canada, the only other major gas - producing region in the world, have obtained most of their known recovery from several hundred 15 — 300 billion cubic metre fields.

When this in turn emptied, the researchers calculated that the flow from the subglacial lake was at a rate of 215 cubic metres per second.