Sentences with phrase «sq km less»

And on 13 February the total area of frozen ocean in the two hemispheres was at its lowest: 16.21 million square kilometres, which is about 2m sq km less than the average global minimum for 1981 to 2010.

For half a million sq km less Extent, my naive model gave 0.28 zJ pa.

Not exact matches

He repeatedly predicted that the Arctic would be «ice - free» by last summer, by which he meant it would have less than one million sq km of ice.

Yes, there are forecasts, based on the idea that CAGW is real, that the Arctic Ocean will be «ice free» (less than 1 million sq kms), in the near future.

Now you could pick something silly like ice free means less than 15 million sq km..

1 it is less than 1m sq km of Sea Ice EXTENT so, suppose your best instrument is a satellite with a 25 sqkm footprint.

You all were readying your catastrophic stories if the winter ice was less than 13 m sq km, and when it didn't happen, suddenly it didn't matter.

«Contrary to what a few crackpot physicists tell us, it's not because of a relatively small 2 million sq km area of less ice in September, but because of gigantic areas in the tropical Pacific.

That would be one for every 170,000 sq km of earth's surface, ie a little less than one per area the size of the state of Washington, with of course coverage worse over the oceans.

«During the Holocene Climatic Optimum of 8,000 to 5,000 years ago, the Arctic sea ice was less than 50 % (so less than 2.6 mln sq km) of the lowest extent on satellite record, the 2007 melting record,... during the HCO or HTM (Holocene Thermal Maximum) it was warmer than today — in the Arctic on average about 1.6 degrees Celsius.»

Forests now cover about 40 million sq km — just less than one - third of the Earth's land surface.

This year, it has unexpectedly plunged a further 500,000 sq km to less than 3.5 m sq km.