Sentences with phrase «ocean surface area»

Just divide the volume change by the total ocean surface area, 360 million square km.
With the contribution of such record warmth at year's end and with 10 months of the year record warm for their respective months, including the last 8 (January was second warmest for January and April was third warmest), the average global temperature across land and ocean surface areas for 2015 was 0.90 °C (1.62 °F) above the 20th century average of 13.9 °C (57.0 °F), beating the previous record warmth of 2014 by 0.16 °C (0.29 °F).
Changes in the evaporation rate from, say, higher or lower humidity in the air above, changes in windiness or changes in ocean surface area caused by waves will have a similar effect in varying the characteristics of that 1 mm cooler layer.
The temperature that climate scientists typically reference and care about with regard to climate change is «the average global temperature across land and ocean surface areas».
@rocketeer, Quick calculation: 360 million km ^ 2 is ocean surface area, times 2000m comes to 72 times 10 ^ 22 cm ^ 3.
I calculated the 48 cu miles of that really bad year of ice loss from Greenland and spread it into the Earth's ocean surface area and multiplied it by 87 years and got 1.87 inches of sea level rise.
Our projects will add something on the order of 50 tons of iron to seed an ocean surface area of approximately 10,000 square kilometers in diameter.
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