Sentences with phrase «mm year»

In fact, sea level rise is really a story of a constant 2 - 3 mm a year rise since about 1850 as the world warms from the little ice age.

Maybe this business, if successful, will enable you to earn $ 300 mm each year once it becomes profitable.

The study said sea level rise, caused by factors including a thaw of glaciers, averaged about 1.2 millimeters (0.05 inch) a year from 1901 - 90 — less than past estimates — and leapt to 3 mm a year in the past two decades, apparently linked to a quickening thaw of ice.

(I find this way of stating the trend a bit difficult to understand, but it seems to equate to a decline in average annual rainfall of at least 5 mm each year for the 36 years.

Bill Gurley writes: «Let's say you have a company that estimates it will do $ 100 mm in revenue this year, $ 200 mm the next, and $ 400 mm the year after that.

can you explain more on why maintenance capex is around $ 15 mm a year given that over the last 5 years, capex has ranged from $ 50 to $ 80 mm — if the rest is growth capex, is the topline growth reasonable given the incremental investment?

Writing in the journal Nature Climate Change on Sunday, experts said the rate from 2003 - 2011 would have been 3.3 mm a year when excluding natural shifts led by an unusually high number of La Nina weather events that cool the surface of the Pacific Ocean and cause more rain over land.

«Choosing plants that can thrive in a winter rainfall area with less that 500 mm a year of rainfall is key to the concept of resilient landscaping in the Western Cape», says Deon van Eeden from Vula Environmental Services.

Dr John Church of the Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research added: «The most recent research showed that sea level is rising by 3 mm a year since 1993, a rate well above the 20th century average.»

I mean players like Evan Turner got $ 17.5 mm a year.

Give 1 mm a year to Bould to manage the team and give the 8 mm given to Arsene to hungry children in Africa.

The 49ers are spending $ 208 mm this year.

Green added a lot of work had gone into recovering the downforce lost by the narrowing of the front wing, which regulations have cut in size by 150 mm this year.

In 2009 Syvitski and colleagues showed that subsidence of up to 150 mm a year is a major problem in most of the world's river deltas, affecting cities from New Orleans to Bangkok and Shanghai.

(The ideal number is 700 mm a year, with anything above or below that losing points accordingly)

Oh and by the way, sea level has risen an arithmetic average of 6 - 8 mm a year (125 m) since the end of the ice age.

A study in Nature Climate Change has just confirmed that the seas that in the last century were rising by on average 2.2 mm a year are now rising by 3.3 mm a year.

has just confirmed that the seas that in the last century were rising by on average 2.2 mm a year are now rising by 3.3 mm a year.

Geographer Associate Professor Paul Kench has measured 27 islands where local sea levels have risen 120 mm — an average of 2 mm a year — over the past 60 years, and found that just four had diminished in size.

Last year, the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimated the 1901 - 90 rate at 1.5 mm a year, meaning less of a leap to the recent rate around 3 mm.

According to the Government's latest UK Climate Change Risk Assessment, sea levels around the UK are rising by around 3 mm a year.

As the water level in the Sunderbans delta increases by 7 mm a year, a significant area will be inundated by the turn of century, forcing large - scale migration, particularly in Bangladesh.