Sentences with phrase «kilometers below»

The median is nearly the same value as from the June 2011 outlook, 0.2 million square kilometers below the 2010 July Outlook value, and 0.3 million square kilometers below the 2009 July Outlook value.

According to NSIDC, July 2011 set a new record low during the satellite data record for the month, ending up 210,000 square kilometers below the previous record low set in July 2007 (Figure 2).

Source of Gas Leak Found, Fire Fighting Ships Arrive Now this really gives you a sense of the extreme conditions in which this drilling is happening: The Guardian reports that Total has said it believes it has found the source of the leak, a gas pocket in a rock formation 4 kilometers below the sea bed, and 1 km above the actual gas reservoir that the rig was tapping.

And that pattern was shattered, with a 2010 minimum 436 thousand square kilometers below 2009.

Today the Arctic sea ice anomaly is some 742,000 square kilometers below the satellite mean.

Anomolous global sea ice area would seem to be over a million square kilometers below the 1979 - 2000 mean... hmmm and continuing lack of sunspots should mean lower global temperatures... hmmm

At the beginning of June, Arctic sea ice extent was about 400,000 square kilometers below the 1981 - 2010 average and slightly below the 2012 and 2013 extent on June 1 (Figure 3).

Our model predicts that September 2014 Arctic sea ice extent will be 1.45 million square kilometers below the 1981 to 2010 observed average extent, but will not reach values as low as those observed in 2007 or 2012.

The sea ice monthly extent for September 2012 was 3.6 million square kilometers, based on National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) estimates, a full 1.0 million square kilometers below the 2011 value (Figure 1).

This was the second lowest extent behind 2007 (at 4.3 million square kilometers) and was 2.4 million square kilometers below the 1979 to 2000 average.

This was the second lowest extent behind 2007 and 2.4 million square kilometers below the 1979 to 2000 average.

According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), the monthly average June 2010 ice extent was 10.87 million square kilometers, 1.29 million square kilometers below climatology (1979 - 2000) and 190,000 square kilometers below the previous record low for the month of 11.06 million square kilometers set in 2006.

For the month of November, the Arctic sea ice extent averaged 9.08 million square kilometers, which is 1.95 million square kilometers below the recorded 1981 to 2010 long - term average for the said month.

This is 1.03 million square kilometers below the 1981 to 2010 average for the month and 890,000 square kilometers (344,000 square miles) above the record low for August set in 2012.

As we crested our last hill, the sun broke through the clouds and sparkled against Inle Lake, a few kilometers below us.

A map made with radio waves shows ammonia churning around Jupiter's Great Red Spot, dozens of kilometers below the clouds.

Each plume stretched nearly 100 kilometers below the cloud layer.

And the Great Red Spot, they saw, reaches at least dozens of kilometers below the clouds.

To capture subtle timing shifts occurring thousands of kilometers below the surface, Nelson relied on data from a dense cluster of seismometers called the USArray.

Alternatively, the tanaids may consume the fecal pellets of boring clams and the bacteria associated with them (any organic matter is precious when you're three kilometers below the ocean surface).

He touched down about 11 kilometers below the Pacific Ocean surface at the Challenger Deep site, a spot previously visited by only a handful of robotic subs.

The presence of water ice, he says, supports the idea that Saturn's superstorms are powered by condensation of water and originate deep in the atmosphere, about 200 kilometers below the visible cloud deck.

DENVER — Along the way to testing an old - but - new concept in nuclear waste storage — burying spent fuel in a hole drilled kilometers below the surface — the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and its contractors relearned a lesson that seems frequently forgotten: Get the locals on board first.

Eleven years ago, while studying the microbes that live in water - filled rock fractures in South African gold mines, geomicrobiologist Tullis Onstott of Princeton University noticed wormlike organisms living in cultures taken from 1.3 kilometers below the surface.

But as the glaciers retreated, sinkholes and springs formed around Germany's upper Danube, connecting the river to extensive caves and streams 250 kilometers below.

Magma from adjacent volcanoes filled in the bottom part of the rift, creating new continental crust and a dyke of roughly 2.5 cubic kilometers — twice as much material as erupted from Mount St. Helens — more than two kilometers below the surface.

In this study, researchers of the Royal Observatory of Belgium show gravity data from recent Cassini flybys can be explained if Dione's crust floats on an ocean located 100 kilometers below the surface.

Researchers have obtained the first samples of microorganisms from sediments more than 2 kilometers below the ocean floor — only to discover they are surprisingly ordinary.

Several kilometers below the largest dark spot on our satellite's near side, researchers have discovered a giant rectangle thought to be the remnants of a geological plumbing system that spilled lava across the moon about 3.5 billion years ago.

By combining the two approaches, Patanè and his colleagues conclude that magma has been continuously injected from a depth of 6 to 15 kilometers below sea level into a series of shallower reservoirs.

The deepest hole humans have ever dug reaches 12 kilometers below the ground of Russia's Kola Peninsula.

When the salps in the surface waters at Station M died, they sank so quickly that they carpeted the seafloor, four kilometers below.

The Hubble study suggests that the ocean can be no deeper than 330 kilometers below the surface.

Diamonds are formed hundreds of kilometers below the surface, as carbon is squeezed under intense temperatures and pressures.

Scientists working off the California coast use chemical - sniffing probes, robotically driven subs, and seafloor - tethered temperature sensors to watch flows of lava pave over a once - thriving ecosystem at hydrothermal vents several kilometers below the ocean's surface.

The rarely seen Cuvier's beaked whale, which is able to dive some 3 kilometers below the surface of the ocean, was tapped for listing on Appendix I, the convention's top level of protection.

The process of subsidence was triggered by the lateral intrusion of magma from a reservoir 12 kilometers below the surface.

One reason the Tuesday quake, which subjected some three million people to «severe shaking,» was so damaging is that it occurred at a relatively shallow depth, the fault having ruptured about 10 kilometers below the surface, Blanpied noted.

With helioseismology data, which track acoustic oscillations on the sun, researchers can follow the development of the jet stream thousands of kilometers below the sun's surface, potentially allowing for better forecasts of the timing of the solar cycle.

The craft's microwave radiometer will also «see» about 550 kilometers below the clouds covering Jupiter's surface.

Scientists on the Indian - German expedition, known as LOHAFEX, grew a 300 - km2 patch of algae in hopes that the plants» carbon would fall kilometers below, taking with it the atmospheric carbon it had pulled in during growth.

He points out that eclogite has been known to crystallize some 80 kilometers below the surface, not having necessarily needed the deeper subduction implicated in the Wilson Cycle.

From the high levels of CO2 in the air surrounding the dead trees, geologists concluded in 1995 that a swarm of earthquakes 6 years earlier had created fissures through which about 500 metric tons of the gas a day was seeping to the surface from a reservoir of CO2 several kilometers below.

The combination of a hotter mantle and denser rocks likely caused subducting plates to sink all the way to the bottom of the mantle, 2,800 kilometers below the surface, forming a «graveyard» of slabs atop the Earth's core.

«These columns are clearly separated in the lower mantle and they go all the way up to about 1,000 kilometers below the surface, but then they start to thin out in the upper part of the mantle, and they meander and deflect,» she said.

The JFAST expedition drilled across the Tohoku fault in 2012 and installed a temperature observatory in one of three boreholes nearly 7 kilometers below the ocean surface.

For the most part, today's subducting slabs can only sink so far, to about 670 kilometers below the surface, before the mantle's makeup turns from a honey - like consistency, to that of paste — too dense for most slabs to penetrate further.

Dione's ocean is about 100 kilometers below the surface and roughly 65 kilometers deep, Mikael Beuthe, a planetary scientist at the Royal Observatory of Belgium in Brussels, and colleagues report.

«Patchy weather in the center of Earth: The temperature 3,000 kilometers below surface of Earth is much more varied than previously thought, scientists have found.»

Most volcanoes spew magma that forms when crustal plates collide and melt rock that lies some tens of kilometers below the surface.