Sentences with phrase «kilometers as»

With current ice conditions at 5.3 million square kilometers as of 27 August 2010 (source: National Snow and Ice Data Center, NSIDC) and two or three more weeks to go in the melt season, it is increasingly likely that the September ice extent will fall below the 2009 minimum.

The papers mentioned by Ron C from Pielke Sr are among those that you can not reasonably assume a uniform climatology across grid areas or even within a few kilometers as the Armagh study showed.

From mid-century through 1997, these areas lost 7,000 square kilometers as the ice sheet disintegrated.

Despite its name, the program uses kilometers as its currency.

It uses kilometers as its currency.

The LANPASS card rewards miles, but the LANPASS program uses kilometers as its currency.

And, if it's golf you're looking for, there are three more courses, outside of the resort, within twenty kilometers as well.

Despite its name, the program uses kilometers as its currency.

For example, statistically, a coastline may look just as jagged on the scale of 10 kilometers as it does on the scale of 1000 kilometers.

Commonly known as the «winged wanderer,» this species (Pantala flavescens, shown above) may make migrations of 14,000 to 18,000 kilometers as it searches for pools to lay its eggs.

Both of these teams» analyses converged on the figure of approximately 3,000 kilometers as the lower boundary for the flows.

By using smaller grids — with spacing of just a few kilometers rather than several tens of kilometers as in conventional current models — they were able to show that they could more realistically model the amount of black carbon aerosols, mitigating the underestimation in more coarse - grained models.

The spacecraft probably fell another 1,000 kilometers as it disintegrated like a meteor, Maize said.

The population density then increases to at least 1 person per square kilometer as the hunter - gatherer cultures become more sophisticated and begin to develop agriculture and civilizations.

Not exact matches

Lukas is known for his extracurricular pursuits as much as his business endeavours, having suffered through the 10,000 kilometer Dakar rally four times.

You always get an Australian - Perth based call centre who understand where you live, as opposed to the Telstra «go to your nearest store» response which is always a problem when that's 500 kilometers away!

Carlin summarized the substance of North Korea's statement on Guam as saying «We're going to put our missiles 25 or 30 kilometers offshore.

Saudi Arabia wants to turn hundreds of kilometers of its Red Sea coastline into a global tourism destination governed by laws «on par with international standards» as part of its plan to transform the economy and reduce its reliance on oil.

Allegedly run by a local, Jose Antonio Yepez, the gang is known as the Santa Rosa de Lima cartel, after a small town 60 kilometers east of Salamanca.

Successive explosions from the building storing the fireworks sent huge chunks of concrete flying as far as a kilometer (a half mile), according to resident Jayashree Harikrishnan.

«If you can move people from city to city at 1,200 (745 miles per hour) to 1,300 kilometers per hour, you have a system that can reshape society,» he explained, suggesting that as distances shrink, economic productivity could increase as traffic disappears.

The Wolfcamp, which is as much as a mile (1.6 kilometers) thick in some places, has been one of the primary targets of shale drillers.

The big rig of the bunch is the CT - 120, with a gasoline engine and payload of as much as 15 kilograms that can travel 30 kilometers.

The fiercest hurricane to hit the U.S. in more than a decade came ashore late Friday about 30 miles (48 kilometers) northeast of Corpus Christi as a mammoth Category 4 storm with 130 mph (209 kph) winds.

As railroad stocks soared to astounding heights, railroad companies massively overbuilt thousands of kilometers of railway lines throughout the UK.

This property has all the right features you would like to see in a first exploration - stage land package, and unlike so many other exploration stories, the acquisition of the Pampas el Penon project was already accompanied by a valid (and actually very likely) exit strategy, as senior gold producer Yamana Gold (AUY.TO) is producing gold and silver just a few kilometers to the south, and is in need for more mill feed as its operations are running inefficiently at the moment.

Hema deliveries are fulfilled by the store, itself, from an adjacent logistic center, in as fast as 30 minutes and a three - kilometer radius.

The spacecraft reached an altitude of 100 kilometers at its apex — the height where our sky officially «turns into» outer space, known as the Kármán line.

Whether it's reported in knots, miles or kilometers per hour, we can measure the wind as it is happening and whether or not it is windy at any given location and time is not as questionable as the existence of an all - powerful creator.

About the tenth century, when the ancient Scandinavians, the Vikings, were frequenting North America, the humid portion of the east, as far as the mid-east of what is now the United States of North America, was covered by a dense forest of 1.6 million square kilometers.

We think of everyday life within the framework of minutes, hours, and days, and we measure it in standard spatial units such as feet, yards, miles, or kilometers.

In the world as a whole, topsoil disappears each year in an amount equivalent to the total topsoil of the entire vast wheat belt of Australia which covers 113,000 square kilometers.

As a demonstration of the potential of the Sentinel program, sarmap and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) have generated mosaics, composed from several Sentinel - 1A images that cover 7 million square kilometers of South and Southeast Asia.

This is a very critical step, as the coconut nectar is produced by small farmers, scattered kilometers from one another.

Following the rest day, into the Vuelta's second week, the Calar Alto (15.5 kilometers at 5.9 percent) and La Pandera (12 kilometers at 7.3 percent) loom as big challenges.

SKIING — NORWAY took five gold medals in the world Nordic championships in Oslo as BJORN WIRKOLA, a 22 - year - old shipping clerk, won both the Holmenkollen Hill special 90 - meter and the 70 - meter jumps, and 24 - year - old GJERMUND EGGEN took two individual cross-country gold medals — the 50 kilometer and 15 - kilometer — and anchored the winning 40 - kilometer relay team (page 51).

Swimming 1500 meters, biking 40 kilometers and running 10 kilometers doesn't feel intimidating... as separate events, of course.

SIXTEN JERNBERG SWEDEN CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING Gold - medal winner in the 1956 50 - kilometer race, Sixten rates as the Games» fastest long - distance man.

Barreling across the desert straightaway, air horns no doubt at the ready, Miller and Lange's Liberty Belle broke just about every record for such behemoths: in seven runs they smashed various standing - start and flying - start marks at a quarter mile, a half kilometer, a full kilometer and a mile — 14 in all, each of which has been certified by the U.S. Auto Club as a national record.

Other studies found that the energy consumption and running economy decreased as a result of wearing the best running compression socks, as well as improved performence over a 5 kilometer race.

The unavailability of a health facility is another challenge in the community, as residents walk several kilometers to access healthcare.

The new missile may have a range of as much as 13,000 kilometers — enough to reach any part of continental US.

They will restore some exports immediately, as the offshore fields of Al Jurf (operated by Total) and Bouri (operated by Eni), lying 150 kilometers north of Tripoli, can resume production as soon as staff can be returned to the rigs.

According to him, the prediction has sadly become reality as the lake which covers over 25,000 square kilometers in 1925 have shrunk to 2,500 square kilometers.

The Fonteyn Kill (alternatively written Fonteynkill and also known as Fountain Kill and Mill Cove Brook) is a 1.5 - kilometer - long (0.93 mi) urban stream (or kill) flowing through Dutchess County, New York, onto the campus of Vassar College, and into the Casperkill.

Motorists and passersby on the Kilometer 15, quarry area of Ibadan - Lagos Expressway were Sunday thrown into shock as a fatal accident involving two Mazda commercial buses...

He spoke as party chairman Odigie - Oyegun, 5200 kilometers south, was triumphantly hugging and kissing Mr. Kalu in Abuja.

«Since the impact presented no technical problems for the health and safety of the instrument, the team is only now announcing this event as a fascinating example of how engineering data can be used, in ways not previously anticipated, to understand what is happing to the spacecraft over 236,000 miles (380,000 kilometers) from the Earth,» said John Keller, LRO project scientist from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Humans and cheetahs are a case in point: Although the two humans included in the team's study weighed in at 70 kilograms and had an average top speed of about 41 kilometers per hour, the heftiest cheetah weighed about 5 kilograms less but ran nearly three times as fast.

Pan, for instance, a roughly 30 - kilometer - wide moon in the Encke ring gap, has done this to the particles in its vicinity; in turn, infalling ring material has reshaped Pan, making the moon look as if it were wearing a tutu.