Sentences with phrase «of square kilometres»

The radar can measure rainfall over thousands of square kilometres.

What really matters is the coastal damage, with millions of square kilometres threatened.

Satellite data records reveal that the worrying loss of hundreds of square kilometres of ice along West Antarctica's coastline has been occurring for decades

In a remote part of Western Australia, construction of the Australian and New Zealand part of the Square Kilometre Array project is to take place.

Satellite data records reveal that the worrying loss of hundreds of square kilometres of ice along West Antarctica's coastline has been occurring for decades

In 1959, the world population of this bird stood at just 26 individuals on Cousin, an island in the Indian Ocean less than a third of a square kilometre in area.

The border - jumping Ebola outbreak and development of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope prove science diplomacy is essential for Africa and beyond.

These wavelengths are the primary observing range of the Square Kilometre Array.

Developed in a collaboration between 13 different institutions harking from Australia, U.S.A., India and New Zealand, the new telescope array is located at the Murchison Radio - astronomy Observatory (MRO) around 800 km (497 miles) from Perth, a site that has also been selected as the future home for a portion of the Square Kilometre Array.

The 32 - metre converted telecommunications antenna at the Ghana Intelsat Satellite Earth Station at Kutunse will be integrated into the African VLBI Network (AVN) in preparation for the second phase construction of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) across the African continent.

Today (23:06:15) is National Women in Engineering Day — a good day on which to write about our most recent «Girls Night Out» at Jodrell Bank — which focused on the engineering of the Square Kilometre Array.

The hundreds of square kilometres contained within amount to nothing more than the time you'll be wasting in your treks across them, right up until you unlock fast travel and forget they were open worlds to begin with.

Forest - tundra environments are among the best templates to analyse the spatiotemporal development of forest vegetation over several hundred years in an area of sufficient but representative size, at least several tens of square kilometres.

But these dead zones have expanded dramatically, increasing by millions of square kilometres since 1950, roughly equivalent to the area of the European Union.

They found the permafrost that usually sat beneath the sea bed was unfrozen, allowing around 500 kilograms of methane to bubble out of every square kilometre of the sea bed each day.

From toxic tailings ponds that already cover 130 square kilometres, to fresh water use and the direct impacts of digging 100 metre open pit mines over thousands of square kilometres of boreal forest, the report details the environmental problems and other challenges that oil sands mining poses to northern Alberta.

Looking out over the seemingly endless Serengeti plains, this hillside lodge is a tranquil oasis set in thousands of square kilometres of national park.

It is true that more practical research has been done on some CDR techniques, but to imply that large - scale biochar or BECCS plantations, ocean iron - fertilisation (OIF), ocean alkalinisation or enhanced weathering by spreading rock dust over millions of square kilometres — to name but a few CDR options — are well tested and low - risk is (to put it bluntly), also «nuts».

From 2007 to 2009, he led the Danaos project, using sonar - equipped ROVs to survey hundreds of square kilometres of sea floor on a suspected ancient trading route between Crete and Egypt.

Shelf ice, as found in Antarctica, refers to giant floating ice sheets that can span thousands of square kilometres.

Some see this pilot project as the first step towards turning hundreds of square kilometres of parched coastal desert into fertile farms (See «When desert meets sea «-RRB-.

ON RUSSIA»S far eastern coastline, the wilderness of the Kamchatka peninsula sprawls across hundreds of thousands of square kilometres.

In 1908, thousands of square kilometres of Siberia around the Tunguska River were devastated by a fragment of comet just 50 metres across.

Online learning environments have been a game changer for Australian distance educators whose «classrooms» cover thousands of square kilometres, but it's more than just a case of being able to reach isolated areas.

An ancient landscape covering hundreds of thousands of square kilometres, the Kimberley is one of the world's most precious wilderness regions.

These anomalies have been seen in the East Siberian Sea and the Laptev Sea, covering several tens of thousands of square kilometres, amounting to millions of tons of methane, said Dr Gustafsson.

Figure 5: Observed (red line) and modelled September Arctic sea ice extent in millions of square kilometres.

These anomalies were documented in the East Siberian Sea and the Laptev Sea, covering several tens of thousands of square kilometres.

AFP: China's glaciers have shrunk by thousands of square kilometres over the past 30 years as a result of climate change, state - run media reported on Wednesday.

Renewables are intermittent and take up a lot of space: generating a gigawatt of electricity with wind takes hundreds of square kilometres, whereas a nuclear reactor with the same capacity will fit into a large industrial building.