Sentences with phrase «kilometers based»

Our estimate is based on the same improvement from 2008 to 2009 as occurred going from 2007 to 2008 plus 200,000 square kilometers based on gut feeling.

The NIC group has what they call an «aggressive» projection, which decreased from a value of 3.2 million square kilometers based on May data to a value of 2.9 million square kilometers based on June data.

The projections of the Sea Ice Outlook groups for the September 2009 mean minimum ice extent had a median value of 4.7 million square kilometers based on May data and 4.6 million square kilometers based on June data with a range of 4.2 - 5.2 million square kilometers (Figure 1).

One group (Drobot, et al.) increased their estimate from 3.8 to 4.4 million square kilometers based on June initial conditions.

Beaches and other points of interest are marked off in kilometers based on the distance they are from the center of Cancun.

This is unique in that 1,000 points converts into 1,600 Premier points because Aeromexico actually is a kilometers based program.

They point out that EU standards require lower outputs of pollutants, including carbon dioxide, on a grams - per - kilometer basis.

But statistics that claim cycling is more dangerous than driving a car are looking at a per kilometer basis, which is not a fair comparison.

Not exact matches

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!

Backed by U.S. air support, they've swept west from their bases in Iraqi Kurdistan and captured a huge swath of northeast Syria, estimated by one official at about 17,000 square kilometers.

Curiosity left Yellowknife Bay last July and is now on the way to the base of Mount Sharp, which rises more than 3 miles (5 kilometers) into the sky from the center of Mars» Gale Crater.

«You often hear space starts at 100 kilometers — that's based on where aerodynamic forces start having an effect to where you can actually control your [craft] with wings,» Jesse Gossner, an orbital - mechanics engineer who teaches at the US Air Force's Advanced Space Operations School, told Business Insider.

The Public Service Commission approved TransCanada Corp.'s project on a three - to - two vote, removing one of the last hurdles to the Calgary - based company's construction of the $ 8 billion, 1,179 - mile (1,897 - kilometer) conduit, which has been on its drawing boards since 2008.

He however expressed the hope that the nation's proven gas reserve base currently put at 188 Trillion Cubic Feet could actually be in excess of 600 Trillion Cubit Feet when developed, stressing that Nigeria remained the hub for natural gas supply in West African sub region with the construction of 681 kilometer West African Gas Pipiline which currently transmits gas from the country to neighboring countries of Benin, Togo and Ghana.

New York State also made a related $ 5 million URI investment in Gryphon Sensors, a company based in Central New York that has developed a state - of - the - art mobile Unmanned Traffic Management system called Mobile Skylight, which provides three dimensional detection of low - flying, small, UAS at a distance of out to 10 kilometers.

Based on these analyses, A / 2017 U1 came from the direction of the constellation Lyra, swooping in from high above the ecliptic plane in which the sun's planets orbit at a breathtaking 25 kilometers per second.

The finding, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is based on an analysis of 506 race - ending crashes in Formula One — a class of racing featuring single - seater, open wheeled cars and speeds in excess of 350 kilometers per hour — between 1970 and 2014.

The rocket headed into geosynchronous orbit — about 35,000 kilometers above Earth's surface — to deliver a communications satellite for Luxembourg - based SES.

Then, they measured the distance between the footprints and used an equation based on observations of living, walking bipeds to estimate the dinosaur's walking speed, yielding a result between 4.5 and 8 kilometers per hour (2.8 to 5 miles per hour), they report online this month and in a forthcoming print issue of Cretaceous Research.

Using satellites, ground - based instruments, and ozone - measuring weather balloons, they showed that since 2000, the September hole shrunk by 4 million square kilometers — an area bigger than India.

The Bio21 Institute commercialization - and - industry - participation strategy is based in Parkville, 3 kilometers north of Melbourne?s city centre, which has a large concentration of biomedical and clinical research institutions.

On a yearly basis, nearly 63 cubic kilometers of water are drawn from the aquifer, whereas the Indian government estimates that roughly 45 cubic kilometers of water recharge the aquifer annually.

Based on these projections, ranges for rattlesnakes will shift by 430 meters to 2.4 kilometers annually.

In a short but historic flight, one of the company's Boeing 747 - 400s flew more than 200 miles (320 kilometers) from London Heathrow Airport to Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, reaching a peak altitude of 25,000 feet (7,600 meters) during the 40 - minute flight, with one of its four engines burning a blend of 20 percent coconut and babassu oils mixed with regular petroleum - based jet fuel.

Based on the vocalizations, they estimated there were as many as 1.5 million fish in a 17 - mile (27 - kilometer) stretch of river channel during one peak spawning day.

Based on the wavelengths of spectral lines emitted by the luminous gas surrounding the black hole, the object is traveling at a speed of about 7.5 million kilometers per hour — a rate that would carry it from Earth to the moon in about 3 minutes.

Based on data through April 7, 2013, the latest orbital plot places the comet's closest approach to Mars slightly closer than previous estimates, at about 68,000 miles (110,000 kilometers).

Florida - based Green Flight International plans to fly the old jet — chosen because it has fuel - line heaters to keep the biodiesel from gelling — more than 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometers) from Reno to Orlando, Fla., later this year, pending U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approval.

Hybrid locomotive technologies offer many advantages, but they will come with new obstacles, says Mike Iden, general director of car and locomotive engineering at Omaha, Neb. — based Union Pacific Railroad, the nation's largest railroad company, with a 5,150 - kilometer network.

Reporting from Ny - A ̊lesund — a research base in Norway, 1000 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle — Kintisch describes how «[m] eter - tall waves and driving snow are common here in the Svalbard archipelago, where the Atlantic and Arctic oceans meet, but that doesn't deter [Markus] Brand, a graduate student from the Alfred Wegener Institute... in Helgoland, Germany,» from pursuing his research on local fish populations.

They also constrained the strength of Phobos based on results from simulations of the 10 - kilometer diameter Stickney impact crater, which formed in the past when a rock rammed into Phobos without quite smashing the moon apart.

Based on Hubble Space Telescope photographs of Pluto's newfound companion, astronomers estimate the moon to be just a few dozen kilometers in diameter.

Nearly two years to the day after the Deepwater Horizon incident, scientists from the Consortium for Advanced Research on Transport of Hydrocarbon in the Environment (CARTHE), based at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, conducted a drifter experiment in the northern Gulf of Mexico spill site to study small - scale ocean currents ranging from 100 meters to 100 kilometers.

«ChroGPS is based on the sequential application of two steps: first the generation of distances (or degrees of similarity) between epigenetic components on the basis of several possible measurements that we have developed, and after, in the representation of these distances in the form of bi - o tri-dimensional maps to facilitate their interpretation.For example, they are like visual maps from which distance tables can be drawn up in kilometers between cities,» describes Òscar Reina, one of the developers of the software application.

With development, more portable systems based on the technology could provide very accurate, continuous regional monitoring of these gases over kilometer scales — a capability lacking with current monitoring techniques.

These results are significantly higher than the California Air Resources Board (CARB)'s previous estimate of about 4 percent (pdf), which was based on data from farms within 200 kilometers of Sacramento.

Many types of fish undertake migrations on a regular basis, on time scales ranging from daily to annual, and with distances ranging from a few meters to thousands of kilometers.

While never built, a larger planned camp based on the concept of Camp Century would have housed a 4,000 - kilometer long tunnel system underneath the ice, capable of deploying up to 600 nuclear missiles.

The global climate models assessed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which are used to project global and regional climate change, are coarse resolution models based on a roughly 100 - kilometer or 62 - mile grid, to simulate ocean and atmospheric dynamics.

In their experiment, the researchers used the dual - based IR remote sensing system to observe the spectral curves of the sun and airplanes in flight from distances up to 6 kilometers (4 miles).

In 2008 a satellite study based on rates of snowfall and ice movement estimated a loss of 210 cubic kilometers of ice per year — a 59 percent increase in the past decade.

Based on their simulations, the researchers predict such a fate for a recently discovered exoplanet called CoRoT - 7, which orbits its parent star at a distance of only a few million kilometers.

They are working in cooperation with the Sand County Foundation, a nonprofit based in Madison, and We Energies, an energy company that runs a coal - fired power plant just 160 kilometers away in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Whereas the lower atmosphere (at altitudes of less than 200 kilometers) is consistent with ground - based stellar occultations, the upper atmosphere is much colder and more compact than indicated by pre-encounter models.

First, they would need to build a base tower approximately 50 kilometers tall, out of the wind for stability and near the equator for alignment with the geostationary Earth orbit (GEO).

After a daring, well - documented descent into Gale Crater, NASA's flagship rover came to rest about 6.5 kilometers from the base of Mount Sharp and 28 kilometers from the crater's northwest rim.

None of the conference participants could be accused of thinking small, whether the discussion is about a 100,000 - kilometer tether made of carbon nanotubes, space - based solar power, or man's ultimate destiny to seed the galaxy.

The ground - based microwave antenna would have to be two kilometers long.

In early March, Battelle Memorial Institute, a large research nonprofit based in Columbus, quietly withdrew plans to drill two holes up to 5 kilometers deep into the granite bedrock beneath the rolling prairie there.

Cloud - based software constantly reviews all incoming data and, if at least four phones detect shaking and this represents more than 60 percent of all phones within a 10 - kilometer radius of the epicenter, the program confirms an earthquake.