Sentences with phrase «meters of water equivalent»

Annual balance record of North Cascade glaciers in meters of water equivalent.

The annual balance in meters of water equivalent determined from field measurements networks of varying number of measurement sites on Columbia Glacier.

After many attempts to calculate a specific mass balance in meters of water equivalent, from climate indices data, it was clear the results were just not going to be consistent enough to provide a reliable forecast.

Not exact matches

Glenn also tells of a Clemson runner who trained in water four weeks before clocking a 3:45 1,500 meters, which is the equivalent of a 4:03 mile.

Scientists have been keeping a wary eye on Greenland's ice sheet, which holds in its frozen waters the equivalent of 7.4 meters of sea level rise.

Physicists at the University of Twente in the Netherlands and at the University of Seville in Spain set up an experiment in which they pulled a disk - shaped object flat down into water so that it hit the water at the relatively leisurely speed of one meter per second (roughly equivalent to dropping the disk from a height of a few centimeters).

This does not seem a very large loss rate, but it has taken place relentlessly for more than 2 billion years, and the equivalent water or CO2 lost over this time period is in excess of several meters of liquid water spread over the whole surface of Mars.

Compare that to 20 sq meters of land, 2200 liters of water, and 1000 grams of feed for an equivalent amount of beef.

As most of the dives in the Maldives are deeper than 18 meters (60 ft.), in moderate to strong current, it is recommended that divers complete the Advanced Open Water Course prior to arrival or have equivalent diving experience.

Keep in mind that in order to do some of the dives here you must have an advanced open waters (or its equivalent), as you need to dive deeper than 18 meters.

At 0 degrees C, you need a pressure equivalent to ~ 250 meters of water depth to get enough dissolved methane for hydrate to form.

The entire mass of the atmosphere column is equivalent to about 3 meters of sea water, only a fraction of the well - mixed layer.

«A fan of * MORE * discourse January 17, 2013 at 4:51 pm the 10,000 meter - tall water column of the Challenger Deep stands in a gravitational field equivalent to (calculates) 250 Kelvins of energy for each water molecule.

Hmmm... the 10,000 meter - tall water column of the Challenger Deep stands in a gravitational field equivalent to (calculates) 250 Kelvins of energy for each water molecule.

Consider that at sea level the weight of the atmosphere (the hydrostatic pressure) is equivalent to about 10.3 meters of water.

Doing the math, I find that a 6 mm drop is equivalent to a volume of very roughly 700 billion cubic meters of water, or 700 cubic kilometers (about 180 cubic miles).

Global mass balance data are transformed to sea - level equivalent by first multiplying the ice thickness (meters) lost to melting by the density of ice (about 900 kilograms per cubic meter), to obtain a water equivalent thickness, and then multiplying by the surface area of these «small» glaciers (about 760,000 square kilometers).

Currently the mining operations are licensed to divert 370 million cubic meters (equivalent to 2.3 million barrels) of fresh water per year from the Athabasca river.

From 1961 to 2005, the thickness of «small» glaciers decreased approximately 12 meters, or the equivalent of more than 9,000 cubic kilometers of water.

Where the sea is 3,000 meters deep, wouldn't that be equivalent to raising 3,000 m ^ 3 of water 2 mm?