Sentences with phrase «cubic miles of»

What is the required «temperture difference» for 3 cubic miles of miscroscopic atmospheric «dirt» to influence the temperature of 259 trillion cubic miles of mostly molten rock?

«Curry found that between 1965 and 1995, about 4,800 cubic miles of fresh water — more water than is in Lake Superior, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario and Lake Huron combined — melted from the Arctic region and poured into the normally salty northern Atlantic.»

If you have evidence to suggest the figure of «another 4,300 cubic miles of fresh water from the Arctic» would be very unlikely to «trigger a shutdown of the conveyer belt» that would be intersting.

(quote) «Early calculations show that it would take another 4,300 cubic miles of fresh water from the Arctic to trigger a shutdown of the conveyer belt, Curry said.

And although there is about 332,500,000 cubic miles of it on earth — only one - hundredth of one percent of the world's water is readily available for human use.

What I've read is that we would have to filter 40,000 cubic miles of seawater / year to supply 100 reactors.

The ocean volume increase comes from the thousands of cubic miles of new (initially) CO2 - free water.

There are more than five million cubic miles of ice on Earth, and some scientists say it would take more than 5,000 years to melt it all.

120,000 cubic miles of fresh and low - salinity water might be stored and available for human use.

Each year, it dumps 2 cubic miles of ice into the sound.

A recent report shows Antarctica losing as much as 36 cubic miles of ice a year.

There is 332,519,000 cubic miles of water on the planet with 321,003,271 cubic miles of it in the oceans.

Greenland is the world's largest island, and it holds 680,000 cubic miles of ice.

You canâ $ ™ t look at the behaviour of a few neurons and understand the functioning of a brain; likewise, you canâ $ ™ t look at a few ocean currents or a few cubic miles of atmosphere and understand the climatic system.

But roughly 3,000 cubic miles of it arrives every year, which means the ice shelf is receiving an amount of heat that exceeds the output of a hundred nuclear power plants, operating 24/7.

A study last year showed that between April 2002 and February 2009 the Greenland ice sheet lost 385 cubic miles of ice, adding approximately 0.5 millimeters of sea - level rise every year.

The Challenge of Measuring Groundwater in California's Central Valley 06.02.2017 — A new study estimates that around 9.5 cubic miles of groundwater was pumped from the region... Read More.

I was wondering how much more energy there must be in the arctic to melt so many more cubic miles of ice.

One hundred cubic miles of comet Halley's tail contains much less matter than in a cubic inch of air we breathe — and is even less dense than the best laboratory vacuum.

«We are looking at several cubic miles of lava in rapidly emplaced flows,» said Davies, who has developed models to predict the volume of magma erupted based on spectroscopic observations.

De Pater's long - time colleague and coauthor Ashley Davies, a volcanologist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., said that the recent eruptions resemble past events that spewed tens of cubic miles of lava over hundreds of square miles in a short period of time.

With an average thickness of 625 feet, the iceberg will contain 277 cubic miles of ice.

(quote) «Early calculations show that it would take another 4,300 cubic miles of fresh water from the Arctic to trigger a shutdown of the conveyer belt, Curry said.

«Curry found that between 1965 and 1995, about 4,800 cubic miles of fresh water — more water than is in Lake Superior, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario and Lake Huron combined — melted from the Arctic region and poured into the normally salty northern Atlantic.»

We are literally awash in it: If the water were evaporated from the world's oceans, we'd be left with 4.5 million cubic miles of salt, equivalent to a cube measuring 165 miles on each side.

The ocean contains 320 million cubic miles of water covering 140 million miles of seafloor, more than twice the area of all the continents combined, and we've only had a look at tiny bits of it.

In the mid-1990s, a lake containing 1,300 cubic miles of water (as much as Lake Michigan) was detected 12,000 feet below the surface of the ice in East Antarctica, beneath where the Russians had spent years drilling into the ice sheet to study its history.

Ground - penetrating radar later confirmed these suggestions, and Lake Vostok, with its 1,300 cubic miles of liquid water, was revealed some two and a half miles below the ice.

Eruptions raged century after century, ultimately unleashing a quarter - million cubic miles of lava — the Laki eruption 100,000 times over.

Notable results included a report from researchers at MIT that Alaska lost an average of 10 and a half cubic miles of ice each year from 2003 to 2005.

(A separate group at the University of Texas published figures extrapolated from GRACE data showing that Greenland lost as much as 57 cubic miles of ice each year between 2002 and 2005; NASA shortly plans to publish data reconciling the two studies.)

The simulation contains 8 * 10 ^ 52 cubic miles of gas - and dark matter - strewn space.

When the asteroid hit, it's estimated that it delivered over a billion times the energy of the nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and displaced roughly 48,000 cubic miles of sediment.

Greenland was losing 12 cubic miles of ice each year.

Forty cubic miles of water — enough to fill 64 million Olympic swimming pools — have disappeared from beneath California's Central Valley alone.

That volcano's eruption moved seven cubic miles of sand within minutes, and cut canyons in soft rock within years.

Covering Everest 4,000 years ago would require the addition of 1,000,000,000 cubic miles of water.

Multiplying the weight of a cubic mile of lava by the heat energy released per kilogram and we find that a Pompeii - sized underwater eruption releases 2.739 x 1019 joules of heat into the sea.

Dividing that number into the quantity of joules of heat released by the volcano that we calculated above, we find that the cubic mile of magma can melt roughly 82 trillion kilograms of ice.

Brian Dodge # 238 (and all those before him): that's all for a volcano producing a cubic mile of hot rock, coming into direct contact with sea water, Krakatoa style.

About two - thirds of a cubic mile of material was ejected.

Not exact matches

The 856 - mile pipeline can transport 20 million cubic meters of gas per day.

Ennie Argence of New Orleans, driving the hydroplane Gun Shy in the championships of the National Inboard Hydroplane meet at Cape Coral, Fla., established a five - mile competitive speed record in the 266 - cubic - inch class, averaged 80.501 mph.

General Electric removed 2.65 million cubic yards of contaminated sediment from a 40 - mile stretch of the upper Hudson through 2015.

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.

Yet the practice is widespread, in part because oil prices have been much higher in recent years and because it is hard to find new multimillion barrel reservoirs these days, especially in the picked over U.S. Denbury, based in Plano, Texas, controls more than 1,000 miles of CO2 pipelines and has published reserves of 17 trillion cubic feet of the greenhouse gas, used to pump more than 70,000 barrels of oil a day.

Over the past 11 million years, volcanoes have erupted thousands of cubic miles» worth of material over much of the Andean Plateau.

According to recent calculations, the upper limit on the present amount of water on the Martian surface is 800,000 to 1.2 million cubic miles, or about 1.5 times the amount of ice covering Greenland.

Scientists» early warnings came true just a month later, when around 700 million cubic feet (20 million cubic meters) of rock slid into the Qinggan River, just two miles (three kilometers) from where it flows into the Yangtze, spawning 65 - foot (20 - meter) waves that claimed the lives of 14 people.

Velicogna and her colleagues also measured a dramatic loss of Greenland ice, as much as 38 cubic miles per year between 2002 and 2005 — even more troubling, given that an influx of fresh melt water into the salty North Atlantic could in theory shut off the system of ocean currents that keep Europe relatively warm.