Sentences with phrase «square kilometer surface»

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The city also has coated 0.62 square kilometers of roof surfaces white since 2009.

In 2016, he and colleagues produced a report for the city of Louisville, Ky., that analyzed the impact of adding 450,000 trees, converting 168 square kilometers of surfaces to cool materials and more.

The researchers looked at annual maximum land surface temperatures averaged across 8 - day periods throughout the year for every 1 - square kilometer (247 acres) pixel on Earth.

All in all, ThunderFish has a surface area of 64 square kilometers to scan.

Each measurement covers a column of air from the satellite to Earth's surface, with a footprint of roughly 3 square kilometers — much smaller than GOSAT's 85 - square - kilometer footprint.

* Correction, 1 September, 7 a.m.: An earlier version of this story said Hiiumaa's surface area is 100 square kilometers.

In comparison, the surface oil from the Deepwater Horizon well covered about 11,200 square kilometers and persisted for months, Subramaniam said.

But it also overwrote parts of the cratering record up to 500 kilometers away from the basin, reducing crater counts over an area of roughly three million square kilometers, or about 8 percent of the lunar surface.

Each OCO - 2 reading will sample a column of the atmosphere above roughly 3 square kilometers of Earth's surface — much smaller than the 85 - square - kilometer footprint of a similar Japanese probe, the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT), which launched in 2009 and is still operating.

Although this is the 12th biggest nation (based on surface area), Greenland averages the fewest people per square kilometer of its surface area.

Once those nutrients reach the sunlit surface, they fuel huge phytoplankton blooms that can cover hundreds of square kilometers.

It covers an area of 3000 square kilometers with approximately 1600 surface detector stations which detect cosmic ray shower particles directly, as well as four fluorescence detectors which overlook the atmosphere above the surface array and detect fluorescence light emitted by shower particles.

When they reach the surface of the earth, the particles from an air shower initiated by a 1020 eV cosmic ray may cover an area of 16 square kilometers.

Currently, the first accessible part of the island has a surface area of about 5 square kilometers with nearly 25 quests / missions to play in order to reach the end of it.

The coincidence of this area loss and a 30 square kilometer loss in 2008 with abnormal warmth this year, the setting of increasing sea surface temperatures and sea ice decline are all part of a climate warming pattern.

Immense flood basalts were accompanied by pyroclastic eruptions and together produced the Siberian Traps, an area of 2 million square kilometers of volcanic rock, which formed suddenly, on the Earth's surface.

Morison and Untersteiner (University of Washington); 5.6 Million Square Kilometers; Heuristic Estimate is based on recent observations, including the previous winter Arctic Oscillation (AO), ice concentrations observed during North Pole Environmental Observatory (NPEO) hydro surveys, atmospheric and ice surface conditions observed with NPEO buoys and Web Cams, and recent ice trajectories.

Tivy (University of Alaska Fairbanks); 5.7 Million Square Kilometers; Statistical This method is based on a simple regression where the predictor is the previous summer (May / June / July) sea surface temperature (SST) in the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans near the marginal ice zone.

A regression - based forecast for September ice extent around Svalbard (an area extending from 72 — 85N and 0 — 40E), which uses May sea surface temperatures, the March index of the Arctic Oscillation, and April ice conditions as predictors, yielded a mean ice extent in September 2010 of 255,788 square kilometers around Svalbard.

With a surface area of about 3.6 million square miles (9.4 million square kilometers), the Sahara is the third - largest desert in the world.

Lukovich et al. (University of Manitoba); 4.0 Million Square Kilometers; Heuristic Surface, stratospheric, and ice conditions in 2010 relative to 2007 atmospheric and ice conditions during June provide the basis for projection of September sea ice extent.

The area of the Earth's total surface is about 718 million square kilometers.

Researchers are still hunting for plausible reasons why the area of Antarctic sea ice for May was an above - average 4.64 million square miles (12.03 million square kilometers), according to the NSIDC, despite the multi-year overall increase in global surface temperatures.

One swarm covered 38,600 square miles (100,000 square kilometers) of the sea surface, containing perhaps trillions of thumb - sized salps.

Sure, the video's portrayal of the ocean being impassably cluttered with plastic waste may be a bit hyperbolic, but for the ocean life killed by the world's refuse washed at sea, it couldn't be more appropriate.Plastic waste has become so widespread throughout the world's oceans that there are 46 thousand pieces of plastic in every 2.5 square kilometers of ocean surface, according to the United Nations.

When dividing the mass balance value by the surface area of the oceans (361.6 million square kilometers), the final result is 0.58 millimeters of sea level rise per year.

Global mass balance data are transformed to sea - level equivalent by first multiplying the ice thickness (meters) lost to melting by the density of ice (about 900 kilograms per cubic meter), to obtain a water equivalent thickness, and then multiplying by the surface area of these «small» glaciers (about 760,000 square kilometers).

Researchers found jagged, glassy rock fragments spread out over a 10 square kilometer (4 square mile) area around a series of small volcanic craters about 4,000 meters (2.5 miles) below the sea surface.

Zemp says that the figures quoted in the report are not possible because 500,000 square kilometers is estimated to be the total surface area of all mountain glaciers worldwide.

Lukovich et al. (University of Manitoba); 5.0 Million Square Kilometers; Heuristic An update to the previous heuristic assessment of surface, stratospheric, and ice conditions in 2010 relative to 2007 atmospheric and ice conditions for July provide the basis for projection of September sea ice extent.

To find out how much of an effect this has on sea level, a team of Dutch scientists led by hydrologist Yoshihide Wada, a Ph.D. researcher at Utrecht University, divided the Earth's land surface into 31 - by -31-mile (50 - by - 50 kilometer) squares on a grid to calculate present and future groundwater usage.

Morison and Untersteiner (University of Washington); 5.6 Million Square Kilometers; Heuristic Estimate is unchanged from last month and is based on the previous winter Arctic Oscillation (AO), ice concentrations observed during North Pole Environmental Observatory (NPEO) hydro surveys, atmospheric and ice surface conditions observed with NPEO buoys and Web Cams, and recent ice trajectories.