Sentences with phrase «land area in»

Gidgee's service footprint is now the largest single Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service provider land area in Queensland, spanning approximately 640,000 km2 and including some 11,000 Indigenous persons.

Ravenna is the second largest commune as per land area in Italy.»

Summer data for 1900 — present are shown in Fig. 7 for the land area in each hemisphere and for the United States.

There is twice as much land area in the 60N - 65N latitude band than ocean.

Some 24 percent of land area in the Northern Hemisphere is underlain by perennially frozen ground.

Increasing crop yield and decreasing or stabilising food and fibre demand could lead to a decrease in total agricultural land area in Europe (Rounsevell et al., 2005).

However given that the Iceland contribution is weighted according to land area in the global records, the impact of this uncertainty is minimal.

These sites collectively occupy about one - quarter to one - third of the land area in each watershed.

Note that a significant portion of the land area in this satellite capture is covered by very large fires.

This would reduce growing seasons and eliminate some of the arable land area in northern latitudes across Canada, Europe and China.

Southern Greenland turns out to have one of the slowest rates of warming of any land area in any of the scenarios (the figure is the mean over all models for the SRES A1B scenario).

Sun Island Resort and Spa has certainly made full use of its land area in offering one of the best varieties of accommodations in South Ari Atoll.

Costa Rica boasts 6 % of the world's total biodiversity and 23 % of the total land area in Costa Rica is now protected in natural wildlife refuges, biological preserves and Costa Rica National Parks, including Arenal Volcano and Costa Rica Cloud Forests.

However, the total forest area has been declining dramatically in recent years — down from 70 percent of the land area in 1940.

These mountains represent just 7 % of the land area in the Americas, but they are home to 40 % of hummingbird species.

Now, Barbara Williams of the University of Wisconsin - Rock County in Janesville, with Maria del Carmen Jorge y Jorge of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, has analyzed the Codex Vergara to discover just how Aztec surveyors estimated land area in parcels that were often irregularly shaped.

The researchers» analysis has shown that from 2000 to 2010, the urban land area in East - Southeast Asia increased by around 22 % from 155,000 to 189,000 km2.

The ability to do so will certainly allow farmers to extend the growing season of crops and the land area in which to grow them, increasing both yield stability and production capacity,» said Asst Prof Xu.

In summer, storm activity calmed down over as much as 80 percent of the land area in the mid-latitudes.

Although the country has a target to increase terrestrial protected areas from 13.8 % of total land area in 2015 to 20 % by 2025, economic development has already had an impact on wildlife.

Those few country examples alone suggest a global certified organic land area in excess of half a million hectares than publicly available figures.

And Egypt controled the Holy Land area in Joshua's time.

It takes time for the fertilized egg to travel from the fallopian tubes and find a soft landing area in the uterus.

Crews need to complete the landing areas in Rockland and Westchester before eastbound traffic can be moved to the new span this fall, at which time the second span will be completed.

A small spotlight on the landing area in the otherwise dark studio encouraged the spider to make the leap toward the camera.

They suggest that dust could be arriving from snow - free land areas in Greenland and nearby in the Arctic that are experiencing earlier melting of seasonal snow cover due to climate change.

Images from MRO's HiRISE (High Resolution Science Experiment) camera show that Beagle 2 indeed survived the harrowing entry, descent and landing sequence to touch down inside its target landing area in the Isidis Planitia region of Mars.

Global dimming is indicated by measurements over land areas in many regions in the world and may therefore be a real phenomena.

This research has demonstrated that the new convection parameterization improves the simulation of the diurnal cycle of convection over land areas in the CAM model.

The impact is the melting of the glaciers and the concomitant rising of sea levels that could sink swaths of low land areas in the near future, followed by the desertification of countries vulnerable to destructive climate change reactions.

The Californian scientists warn that, by mid-century, at least 60 % of land areas in tropical Africa and along the rim of the Indian Ocean will be experiencing hotter conditions than any in the 20

MM04 failed to acknowledge other independent data supporting the instrumental thermometer - based land surface temperature observations, such as satellite - derived temperature trend estimates over land areas in the Northern Hemisphere (Intergovernmental Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Third Assessment Report, Chapter 2, Box 2.1, p. 106) that can not conceivably be subject to the non-climatic sources of bias considered by them.

In all, 90 % of land areas in the northern hemisphere were at least 1C above average.

In particular, for large land areas in the Northern Hemisphere, more than 20 % of the change in temperature extremes can be attributed to LUC.

Jones et al. (1990) have assessed the urbanization effects in time series of surface air temperature over land areas in European parts of the CIS, eastern Australia, and eastern China.

Not exact matches

In June the company received the first - ever FAA commercial license for unmanned aircraft operations over land and water for its work with BP on Alaska's North Slope, part of a big push to develop oil and gas in remote areas with the help of UAVIn June the company received the first - ever FAA commercial license for unmanned aircraft operations over land and water for its work with BP on Alaska's North Slope, part of a big push to develop oil and gas in remote areas with the help of UAVin remote areas with the help of UAVs.

«We have consistently called on China, as well as other claimants, to refrain from further land reclamation, construction of new facilities, and militarization of disputed features, and to commit to managing and resolving disputes peacefully with other claimants,» a Pentagon official told CNBC when asked about China's recent military activity in the area.

French officials said a helicopter crew that landed briefly in the area saw no signs of life.

Yet in many areas, especially cities, these residences on wheels may not be economical to own, because of zoning regulations, high land costs and other drawbacks.

This was one of the most respected companies in the area, and his partnership gave us huge credibility, helping to land other prestigious clients.

According to the Census Bureau's population estimates for 2014 and their tabulations of the land area of each county, 50.1 % of the US population lives in those counties:

In the heart of Osaka, there's a plot of land that could help make Japan's second - largest metropolitan area one of the biggest hubs for entrepreneurship in the regioIn the heart of Osaka, there's a plot of land that could help make Japan's second - largest metropolitan area one of the biggest hubs for entrepreneurship in the regioin the region.

Obama had used the Antiquities Act more than any other president, his White House said in December, when he designated over 1.6 million acres of land in Utah and Nevada as national monuments, protecting two areas rich in Native American artifacts from mining, oil and gas drilling.

The area is of strategic significance to Tehran as it seeks to secure a land corridor to its allies in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon and establish a «Shi'ite crescent» of influence that has long concerned U.S. - allied states in the Middle East.

«The footprint of industrial fishing in the ocean is over four times larger than the land area occupied by agriculture.»

The truly old - money locals still call this area Murray Hill Park after the gentleman farmer, William Murray, who sold this land to the City of Westmount in the 1920s.

But that land is located in the city's hottest up - and - coming area where tech companies are fighting for really expensive office space.

«The measure will accelerate the arrival of infrastructure and people for mining activities in areas of native forest, reproducing in the region the same lack of governance that permits the advance of deforestation and land grabs (elsewhere) in the Amazon,» Greenpeace said in a report by Reuters.

Satterley Property Group has increased its Victorian land bank, buying fellow Western Australia - based developer Peet's 1,350 - lot Arena Estate in the Greenvale area for $ 93.1 million.

It said the newly developed Hwasong - 12 flew as high as 1,310 miles before landing in a targeted area in the ocean about 490 miles from the launch site.