Sentences with phrase «sq km region»

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The Quelccaya ice - cap, covering 17 square miles (44 sq km) in the Cordillera Oriental region of the Peruvian Andes, is the world's largest tropical ice mass.

With 150k sq km gap between today's SIE & the maximum - so - far suggests the region that will decide when this year's maximum appears will be the Bering Sea rather than the high Arctic that saw record temperature anomalies.

Now in order to answer your question, which in turn requires the answer to this question: Is there enough heat available to melt the 2.1 million sq km in the Beaufort, Chukchi, and E. Siberian regions?

Currently there is 700k in the Beaufort region, 700k in the Chukchi region, and 800k in the E. Siberian region, for a total of 2.2 M sq km at risk.

Researchers from two British universities and a Bolivian colleague examined NASA satellite images of the region and found that the area of the Bolivia Cordillera Oriental normally covered by glaciers fell from 530 square kilometres in 1986 to about 300 sq km in 2014 − a shrinkage of more than two - fifths.