Sentences with phrase «maximum extent»

It is the tenth lowest maximum extent on record.

2016 set the third - lowest maximum extent on record.

However, the winter maximum extent has been lower during the last six winters than at any other time during thirty years of satellite records.

On the other hand, Newton observes, Congress has now passed a bill requiring every federal agency to establish a policy under which employees will be authorized to work from home to the «maximum extent possible.»

Last Glacial Maximum (LGM)- The Last Glacial Maximum refers to the time of maximum extent of the ice sheets during the last glaciation, approximately 21 ka.

Environmentalists say the vague language of the EPA's current regulations leaves room for developers and governments to interpret how to reduce stormwater to the «maximum extent practicable.»

The law also requires schools to educate children with disabilities to the «maximum extent appropriate» alongside their nondisabled peers.

Arctic sea ice hit a record low wintertime maximum extent in 2017.

Arctic sea ice was at a record low wintertime maximum extent for the second straight year.

The Arctic's sea ice maximum extent has dropped by an average of 2.8 percent per decade since 1979, the year satellites started measuring sea ice.

Arctic sea ice appears to have reached a record low wintertime maximum extent for the second year in a row, according to scientists at the NASA - supported National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) and NASA.

This year, sea ice in the Arctic reached its smallest maximum extent since satellites began tracking polar ice patterns, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, while scientists have also forecast ice - free Arctic summers in two to three decades (ClimateWire, July 16, 2013).

(Average maximum extent from 1979 to 2014 is in red.)

Antarctic sea ice saw an early maximum extent in 2016, followed by a very rapid loss of ice starting in early September.

This could explain why this year the growth of the Antarctic sea ice cover, which currently is headed toward its yearly maximum extent and was at much higher than normal levels throughout much of the first half of 2015, dipped below normal levels in mid-August.

In March 2017, the annual maximum extent of Arctic sea ice hit a record low for the third straight year, according to the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre.

While a late burst in ice cover this spring can not be ruled out, it appears the sea ice around Antarctica has peaked for the sea at about 18.013 million square kilometres, the smallest maximum extent in the 30 - plus years of satellite readings, Jan Lieser, from the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC, said.

What's more, this is also one of the earliest maximum extents ever reached, with most seen much further into the end of the season.

Such that Spring maximum extent relatively increased from 2008 - 2013 following the reduced minimum's of 2007 - 2012:

It's the paltriest maximum extent seen since recordkeeping began in 1979, scientists at NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center announced March 22.

Together, the meager maximum extent and thin ice could spell trouble for this year's minimum sea ice extent, expected during September.

This year wasn't just notable for the final maximum extent, though, as «nearly every day has been a record for that day in the satellite record» this year, Ted Scambos, a senior scientist with NSIDC, previously told Climate Central.

We use 10Be surface exposure ages from four locations between 69.4 ° N and 61.2 ° N to date when in the early Holocene south to west GIS margins retreated to within these late Holocene maximum extents.

Under the EPA's current permitting system, builders must limit stormwater runoff to the «maximum extent practicable.»

In practical terms, special education is largely defined by the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or the IDEA, which guarantees a «free, appropriate public education» to children with disabilities and mandates that, to the «maximum extent appropriate,» they be educated with their nondisabled peers in the «least restrictive environment.»

This year's record low sea ice maximum extent might not necessarily lead to a new record low summertime minimum extent, since weather has a great impact on the melt season's outcome, Meier said.

This is the joint - second lowest maximum extent on record for the satellite era, after 17.89 million sq km in 1986.

The 2016 Arctic melt season started with a record low maximum extent in March, and sea ice was measured at record low monthly extents well into June.

As the Arctic temperatures drop in the autumn and winter, the ice cover grows again until it reaches its yearly maximum extent, typically in March.

On August 31, the Antarctic sea ice reached its annual maximum extent at 7.12 million square miles.

The March 24, 2016 maximum sea - ice extent was estimated at 5.6 million square miles (14.52 million square kilometers), which set a new record for the lowest maximum extent since satellite monitoring began in 1981.

So when we see (again) that the Arctic sea ice reached a record low wintertime maximum extent (how far out new sea ice formed) on March 7, and that sea ice extent in Antarctica at the end of summer similarly reached its lowest extent we can be assured this is not as it should be.

This means that the four lowest maximum extents in the satellite record have all occurred in the past four years, notes the NSIDC.

«The committee would like to the maximum extent possible to rely on variations on our short - term rate,» Yellen said.

Those conducting the experiment must have adequate training and experience (no specifics are provided, though) and the trial must be randomized, controlled and blinded «to the maximum extent practicable.»

Dividend aristocrats and aspirants alike increase dividends to the maximum extent possible leading to a maximum decoupling of profit and dividend growth.

We aim to find talented teams with scalable projects and accelerate their growth process to maximum extent and make a successful exit within a period of up to two years.

«Failure to do so,» Mr. Harder added, «will leave my client with no alternative but to institute immediate legal proceedings against you and, should that occur, she would pursue all available causes of action and seek all available legal remedies to the maximum extent permitted by law.»

If you don't have a binding agreement in place, how can you be sure that your assets, your family's assets, and the product of your life's work are truly protected to the maximum extent?

So when we see (again) that the Arctic sea ice reached a record low wintertime maximum extent (how far out new sea ice formed) on March 7, and that sea ice extent in Antarctica at the end of summer similarly reached its lowest extent

«We believe that it is in the nation's best interests, and the interests of the wheat farmers we represent, to challenge trade distorting policies to the maximum extent possible within WTO rules.»

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