Sentences with phrase «square kilometers around»

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.

In 1972, 308 square kilometers around the reservoir were made into the Udawalawe National Park.

Not exact matches

The project will cover 50 islands and 34,000 square kilometers — an area bigger than Belgium — between the cities of Umluj and Al Wajh to attract «luxury travelers from around the globe,» according to an official statement sent to Bloomberg on Tuesday.

«To meet the 2005 U.S. electricity demand of about 4 million megawatt - hours with around - the - clock wind would have required wind farms covering over 780,000 square kilometers,» Ausubel notes.

According to a 2013 analysis conducted by Packer, it is cheaper to manage lions in fenced reserves at around $ 500 per square kilometer (not counting the high cost of installing the fence in the first place) than in unfenced areas, where $ 2,000 is only sufficient for managing a population at half its potential density.

Indeed, if land managers in Africa were as well funded as Yellowstone National Park, at around $ 4,100 per square kilometer, they could afford to manage the average unfenced lion population at around two - thirds its potential size, a step up from the current status quo.

During the fall hunt, there are around 3.5 piles per square kilometer.

After 4 years surveying 12 square kilometers of land around the United Kingdom's Stonehenge, researchers have uncovered a sprawling complex of chapels, hedges, barrows, and pits surrounding the Neolithic stones, The Guardian reports.

Between 1985 and 1999, for example, most of the 10 - kilometer - wide buffer zone around the 1000 - square - kilometer Gunung Palung National Park was felled.

That's around 100,000 square kilometers smaller than the previous record, a statistical tie between 2015 and 2016, and 1.22 million square kilometers smaller than the 1981 to 2010 average.

Lightning is blamed for setting off the fires, including a massive blaze that has destroyed around 42 square miles (110 square kilometers) of forestland, along with 16 homes, and has threatened the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, America's oldest Buddhist monastery in the Big Sur region of California.

A: The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) announced this week that the sea ice surrounding Antarctica reached its maximum extent — its widest halo around the continent — in 2014 on 22 September: more than 20 million square kilometers, which also set a record for the highest extent of sea ice around the continent since satellite measurements began in the late 1970s.

A team of ecologists used nets to capture 152 birds from 16 species inside and around the 2600 - square - kilometer exclusion zone.

After all, the roughly 1,200 square kilometers of land on which New York sits is now valued at around $ 600 billion, much more than the total cost of building the Big Apple.

The oblast occupies an area of around 33,300 square kilometers.

With total population of around 3,300.000, the population density of Bali is nearly 560 per square kilometer; Bali is Indonesia's second most densely populated island after Java.

A few hundred years ago, this forest covered an area of around 330 million acres (1,300,000 square kilometers).

At around 34 square kilometers, Apo Reef Natural Park is the second largest contiguous coral reef system in the world (yes, just after the Great Barrier Reef) and is known to be one of the best marine sanctuaries in the Philippines.

The regency spreads on 368 square kilometers with the total population around 416.728 people.

Because the vision of the final version of Star Citizen includes «billions» of square kilometers of viable property, there will be plenty of good locations to go around, or so the developers say.

Niue, a small island country in the South Pacific with a population of just 1,600, established a new marine protected area that covers 40 percent of the island's exclusive economic zone... In September this year, Chile announced a 740,000 - square - kilometer (285,700 - square - mile) marine reserve around its remote Easter Island.

This year set another new record, with ice covering more than 19.5 million square kilometers of ocean around Antarctica by September.

Mississippi Power owns 42 square miles (109 square kilometers) of land around the Kemper plant.

«An «ice - free» Arctic Ocean is often defined as «having less than 1 million square kilometers of sea ice», because it is very difficult to melt the thick ice around the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

The new reserve is expected to come into force in December of 2017 and will set out to protect some 1.55 million square kilometers (~ 600,000 square miles) of the Ross Sea around Antarctica.

Does this suggest a new level of reduced summer ice extent persisting at around 5.0 million square kilometers, relative to a value of 6.0 million square kilometers in the early 2000s?

Looking at charcoal fragments from 14 deep lakes in the region, scientists were able to reconstruct the fire history of this particular forest, which covers around 2,000 square kilometers.

This is followed by several years of variability around the 4 million square kilometers level, until another dramatic reduction event takes place.

And the decline has accelerated, becoming far more dramatic, since about the year 2000, leading to annual average sea ice loss of around three million square kilometers.

Before the record melt last summer, says Stibal, the largest zone with liquid water had been around 200,000 square kilometers.

The September minimum is likely to be around 5.0 million square kilometers, compared to around 4.5 million square kilometers for 2008 and 4.1 million square kilometers for 2007.

Typically, it is around 80 %, with seasonal minima near 3 million 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.