Sentences with phrase «meters of water per»

For the pumping, meanwhile, you would need «90 of the largest pump stations currently under construction in New Orleans,» each of which would be capable of pumping 360 cubic meters of water per second, the study calculates.

But 10 meters of water per square meter, will make plenty of clouds which would also make it very dark at the surface.

Well Norwegian scientist Harald Sverdrup realized that the amount of water flowing through was to big to be measured in gallons or liters, so he came up with the term «the Sverdrup» which is «one million cubic meters of water per second», and there is 20 - 22 Sverdrups flowing through.

Massive pumps in the southern end of the delta suck nearly 10 billion cubic meters of water per year from the delta and send it to farmers in the Central Valley and urban residents in Southern California.

Overall, the world is using 9,087 billion cubic meters of water per year.

Emptying into the Jordan ten kilometers south of Lake Tiberias, the Yarmouk River has historically supplied the river with 400 million cubic meters of water per year.

Not exact matches

St. Louis - based Anheuser - Busch, the largest U.S. brewer, said earlier this month it had cut its water use by 32 per cent in the last five years by sponsoring preservation initiatives in water basins critical to its breweries, and by installing U.S. Department of Agriculture real - time weather and crop water - use data meters on suppliers» farms.

It can clean more than 30,000 cubic meters of air per hour and uses no more electricity than a water boiler, according to Roosegaarde.

High - value crops such as vegetables, citrus fruits, grapes and apricots can by grown in the Middle East if 5,000 to 8,000 cubic meters of water (about 1.7 million gallons) per hectare (2.47 acres) are provided each year.

But one afternoon, the whales all converged on one place where there was a really high density of prey — a 40 - meter - thick swath of water with 107 grams of krill per cubic meter, as opposed to the average density of 66 grams per cubic meter, Cade reported at the meeting.

So Weschler and Wisthaler simulated a typical office environment at the Technical University of Denmark in Copenhagen — two people in a carpeted 28.5 — cubic meter room at a temperature of 23 degrees Celsius with two small stainless steel tables, two chairs, two flat - screen LCD monitors, two headsets, one walkie - talkie, one small mixing fan, a few books, two laptops, two bottles of water and ozone concentrations that reached roughly 32 parts per billion, an average exposure for a hot, smoggy day.

The new images, at resolutions of about 80 meters per pixel, show a striking shoreline, where smooth plains of nitrogen ice from Pluto's «heart» rub up against water ice mountains several kilometers high.

For example, meeting growing demand by finding a new source of water or by building a new dam in a place like California could cost up to 60 cents per cubic meter of water.

This week, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne personally supervised the release of 41,500 cubic feet (1,175 cubic meters) of water per second over a 60 - hour period to mimic a natural flood that will enlarge existing sandbars.

They came up with a maximum flow of 0.23 cubic meters per second, or 19,872,000 liters or 125,000 barrels daily, but this is a bulk outflow that includes mud, water, and gas as well as oil.

They found the barnacle larvae were abundant, up to 950 larvae per cubic meter of water.

This study shows that aragonite saturation state in waters shallower than 328 feet or 100 meters depth decreased by an average of 0.4 percent per year from the decade spanning 1989 - 1998 to the decade spanning 1998 - 2010.

He predicts that water off the Oregon shore will peak at around 10 to 20 becquerel per cubic meter of water as ocean currents carry radiation from Japan in the years ahead.

Water vapor permeated the material at the target rate of less than 10 - 6 grams per square meter per day.

Brine from the desalination plant would be discharged into the already - saline Dead Sea, replenishing water that is evaporating from the lake at a rate of more than 1 meter per year.

He estimates that a 0.3 - by - 0.3 meter array of oil - attracting needles could clean 1 liter of oil - contaminated ocean water per second — too little, he says, to feasibly clean up large areas of the ocean.

The pre-GERD Nile flow now barely supplies 97 % of Egypt's present water needs with only 660 cubic meters per person, one of the world's lowest annual per capita water shares.

Winston's postdoc Lun Jiang notes that in the 1990s, evacuated tubes used for solar water heating cost more than US$ 100 per meter, but they now cost just $ 2 — 3 because of mass production driven by widespread use of the systems in China.

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).

During flooding episodes, the channel can divert up to 4,000 cubic meters (140,000 cubic feet) of water per second before it reaches the Winnipeg area.

«Now, clean water is becoming a very expensive commodity on the three islands as it has to be transported by boat from Lombok, at a cost of Rp 75,000 per cubic meter,» he said, adding that the new facilities were expected to help promote tourism.

During peak flow season, the volume of water flowing over Niagara Falls averages a whopping 6,400 cubic meters per second.

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Much of the area is already experiencing rise rates on the order of a meter or more per century due to the ongoing production of oil, gas and associated water causing collapse and consolidation of the producing rock strata.

Many rivers no longer flow all the way to the sea; 50 % of the world's wetlands have disappeared and major groundwater aquifers are being mined unsustainably, with water tables in parts of Mexico, India, China, and North Africa declining by as much as one meter per year (Somerville and Briscoe 2001).

Depending on just what you assume about cloud and water vapor distributions, this yields a radiative forcing of about -2.5 Watts per square meter.

The first 7 meter high Smog Free Tower cleans 30.000 m3 of air per hour of ultra-fine smog, uses no more electricity than a water boiler, and runs on green energy.

There are those who appear to steadfastly maintain that all thermal radiation is from the surface and the and the convection return flow, which must heat at the dry adiabatic rate of 9.8 deg C per 1000 meters going down — unless it is gobbling up condensed water vapor on the way, and reach the surface before it can be cooled again.

A thunderstorm event might be best depicted as a run - away rising column of air that is becoming progressively warmer than the surrounding air as condensing water vapor yields its heat of vaporization until almost all water vapor has condensed out and then cooling at a rate of 9.8 deg C per 1000 meters, it eventually reaches a warmer layer of air and spreads out like smoke over a ceiling.

Seroussi and Ivins» simulations using a heat flow higher than 150 milliwatts per square meter showed too much melting to be compatible with the space - based data, except in one location: an area inland of the Ross Sea known for intense flows of water.

«The amount of water vapor in clouds varies widely depending on temperature, pressure, etc., but five grams per cubic meter is about average.»

Per 50 grams of water per square metPer 50 grams of water per square metper square meter.

The Sun does emit a much broader spectrum but outside the range of 250 to 2500 nm the amount energy per square meter is insignificant and it's not possible for such small amounts of energy to be able to * heat the land and water at the equator intensely *.

Under the North China Plain, which produces at least one fourth of the country's grain, the fall in the underground water table of 1.5 meters (5 feet) per year of the early 1990s has recently increased to 2 — 3 meters per year in some areas.

With Himalayan glaciers receding at a rate of 30 meters to 60 meters per decade alongside decreased snowfall and ice melts, global warming is dramatically altering water resources in this already impoverished mountain country.

If the developing world's 5 billion people in 2020 have 0.1 square meter of rooftop water heating capacity per person by 2020, roughly the same as in China or Turkey today, this would add 500 million square meters to the world total, pushing it over 1.5 billion square meters.

Inspired by the rapid adoption of rooftop water and space heaters in Europe in recent years, the European Solar Thermal Industry Federation (ESTIF) has established an ambitious goal of 500 million square meters, or one square meter of rooftop collector for every European by 2020, a goal that exceeds the 0.74 square meters per person today in Israel, the world leader.

It transports water at a rate of 30 million cubic meters per second (30 sverdrups) through the Florida Straits.

.02 = 2/100 or 20/1000 1/1000 of a mm, = 1 micron or 1 / 1000000 meters 20 microns of acceleration per annum is not significant when we pump enough water for irrigation to account for 100 times that.

If in 2020 the 5 billion people in developing countries outside of China match China's 0.08 square meters of rooftop water and space heating capacity per person, this would add 400 million square meters to the world total.

Rooftop solar water heaters have a capacity of 0.7 kilowatts per square meter and a capacity factor similar to rooftop photovoltaics (22 percent); nominal capacity from Weiss, Bergmann, and Stelzer, op.

The oceans have warmed with «virtual certainty,» the report concludes, at a rate of about 0.2 degrees Fahrenheit (0.11 Celsius) per decade since 1970 in the upper 246 feet (75 meters) of surface water.

Although this water is only warm in a relative sense, just a couple of degrees above freezing, it can melt away the ice at an astonishing rate — up to 100 meters per year.

If they are correct the water should evaporate quickly, even boil, for that 70 ºF wall is giving off 5.67e - 8 * (273K +20 K) ^ 4 or 418 Watts per square meter that is going to focus down to 400 W x 5,000 multiplication factor or 2,000,000 Watts per square centimeter and we only need 2250 Joules to vaporize that gram of water.

It would be helpful if this could be converted to more familiar units, such as watts per square meter required to generated this much heat, or the number of degrees Celsius this will raise the water temperature.