Sentences with phrase «kilometers above sea level»

Since the first microwave sounding unit was launched into orbit in November 1978, satellite - based instruments have measured the temperature of the atmosphere from the surface up to an altitude of about eight kilometers above sea level.

And while the clouds aren't exactly teeming with life, air - sampling instruments have trapped bacteria more than 11 kilometers above sea level.

Sieving through the data from CALIPSO — a satellite jointly launched by France and the U.S. — they found a thick layer of aerosols between 13 and 18 kilometers above sea level over a large area stretching across the eastern Mediterranean Sea, northern India and western China.

The satellite - based instruments measure the temperature of the atmosphere from the surface up to an altitude of about eight kilometers above sea level.

The Atacama Large Millimeter / Submillimeter Array (ALMA), a massive observatory now under construction five kilometers above sea level in Chile, should further illuminate the workings of distant galaxies when it opens for scientific use in 2011.

The ozone layer lies in Earth's stratosphere, 10 to 50 kilometers above sea level.

The volume of ash deposited, and the estimated height of the eruption plume (43 kilometers above sea level) put the eruption's magnitude at a minimum of 7 on the volcanic explosivity index (which has a scale of 1 to 8)-- making it one of the largest known in the Holocene.

Discovered in 2005 by monks, the 1,800 - year - old tomb sits 4.3 kilometers above sea level in the Ngari district of Tibet.

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It sits on a privately owned farm more than 1600 meters above sea level in southern Namibia, some 120 kilometers west of the city of Luderitz.

Electricity produced by a fuel cell by combining hydrogen and oxygen powered an electric motor to turn the two - seat test glider's propeller and enabled it to fly for roughly 20 minutes at 62 miles per hour (100 kilometers per hour) at about 3,300 feet (1,000 meters) above sea level.

The Eemian - age chevron beach structures with consistent southwesterly direction throughout windward shores in the Bahamas, with wave runup deposits at elevations as much as 20 — 40 m above today's sea level and reaching as far as a few kilometers inland, must have been formed by massive storms in the direction of the prevailing winds.

We will pick you up from your hotel between 4.00 and 4.30 am in our private transport to head for the community of Piskacuchu at 2720 meters above sea level, located at kilometer 82 of the Cusco - Machu Picchu railway, known as the Departure of the Inca Trail.

We will pick you up from your hotel from 7:50 am to 8:30 am to head for the district of Maras, a picturesque village that is 40 kilometers away from the city of Cusco at a height of 3300 meters above sea level, from This point we will head towards the archeological center of Moray, an enigmatic and wonderful place for its beautiful landscapes, circular terraces and the mystical energy that can be felt descending to the center of this construction.

The only problem with all the predictions about the level of the World Ocean rising is that, the World Ocean is refusing to rise up in support of the predictions, the other problem is that ice is frozen fresh water and frozen fresh water only covers about 5 % of this planet above sea level and frozen water under the level of the World Ocean does not count as the World Ocean will fall a small amount if that ice melts, so if the ice there is enough to get the World Ocean to rise and significant amount then it must be piled up very high, I cubic kilometer of water as ice, should it melt, would make 1000 square kilometers rise by one meter, so when you use this simple math then somewhere on the planet, above the level of the sea, then there must be over 500,000 cubic kilometers of ice, piled up and just waiting to melt, strange that no one can find that amount of ice, all these morons who talk about the rise of the World Ocean in tens of meters, this includes you Peter Garrett or Mr. 7 Meters, the ice does not exist to allow this amount of rise in the World Ocean, it is just not there.