Sentences with phrase «square kilometers for»

We received 21 responses for the Pan-Arctic report (Figure 1), with estimates in the range of just below 4.0 million square kilometers to as high as 5.4 million square kilometers for the September arctic mean sea ice extent.

After adjustment, the ensemble mean estimate is 4.60 million square kilometers for September, down from the 5.13 million square kilometers of the first estimate.

The prediction for September 2011 is now 213,421 square kilometers, down from a prediction of 257,947 square kilometers for the previous month's outlook.

Do we believe that today's models can provide decision - relevant probabilities at a resolution of tens of square kilometers for the year 2060 — or even 2020 for that matter?

We received 21 responses with a range of estimates from 4.0 to 5.0 million square kilometers for the September 2012 arctic mean sea ice extent (Figure 1).

Add the Plains Amerindian culture at 1 person per square kilometer and assuming 2.6 million square kilometers for the plains area, the result is another 2.6 million population of Plains culture Amerindians.

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.

The May Outlook responses had a median value of 4.2 million square kilometers, with a median of 4.9 million square kilometers for the July Outlook (Fig. 5); these compare to a 2008 September observed value of 4.7 million square kilometers.

The range of respondents» estimates from 3.1 to 5.5 million square kilometers for September 2008 primarily reflects the relative importance that was given to these two factors.

With observations from early summer, the projected median ice extent value increased to 4.9 million square kilometers for the July Outlook.

This area is 1.19 million square kilometers for SMMR (from the beginning of the series through June 1987) and 0.31 million square kilometers for SSM / I (from July 1987 to present).

In 1991 President Collor issued a decree creating a continuous reserve of 94,000 square kilometers for the Yanomami people.

It means a million square kilometers for one day during the summer... but regardless of that, I can assure you that no sane ship owner would routinely schedule shipping by way of the Arctic Ocean.

All in all, the Weimar paleontologist determined a total distribution area of 33,301,000 square kilometers for these large mammals — almost 100 times the area of Germany today.

Antarctic sea ice extent reached a record high this year on 22 September, topping 20 million square kilometers for the first time since 1979, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

Although Madagascar has set aside tens of thousands of square kilometers for national parks and reserves, illegal logging is still rampant (SN Online: 1/16/15).

Maps range in size from less than 1 square kilometer for urban maps up to 25 square kilometers for battles that took place in more open places such as the desert of North Africa.

Not exact matches

Western Watersheds Project and Center for Biological Diversity also want to block upcoming sales covering 1,800 square miles (4,662 square kilometers) in those four states plus Idaho.

For example, the report pointed out the population densities in Australia and Canada are 3.1 and 3.9 people per square kilometer.

The most populous nation on earth instated the ban in 2000 for fear of corrupting its youth, but will now allow for distribution of consoles in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone — a 29 - square - kilometer testing ground for new economic reforms established last year.

The mining activity was proposed for a 65 square kilometre region between 22 and 36 kilometers offshore.

The Alberta government has leased almost 100,000 square kilometers of the oil sands deposit, so the potential certainly exists for an industrial project on the scale of England, if a little smaller.

Through two separate joint venture agreements, one with Millennium Minerals and another with the Creasy Group, Novo is undertaking systematic exploration for gold - bearing reefs across this approximately 560 square kilometer project.

A network of smaller peatlands in the Amazon Basin adds up to 629,000 square kilometers, an even larger area than the Congo find, says study coauthor Louis Verchot of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture in Cali, Colombia.

Considering that the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets span more than 1.7 million and 14 million square kilometers, respectively, while containing 90 % of the world's freshwater ice supply, melting of ice shelves could be catastrophic for low - lying coastal areas.

The later arrival indicated by Planck is good news for observers hoping to see the light from the first stars with next - generation instruments that will soon come online, like the James Webb Space Telescope and the Square Kilometer Array.

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.

For context, 780,000 square kilometers (301,000 square miles) is greater than the area of Texas.

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.

Under normal circumstances, groups of two or three whales tend to dive in synchrony across tens of square kilometers to hunt for food.

Thousands of eggs litter the square - kilometer site near Auca Mahuida today, so many that researchers call the area Auca Mahuevo — huevo is Spanish for «egg.»

The larger Białowieża Forest, which extends beyond the national park and covers about 1500 square kilometers, has been protected for more than 600 years.

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.

In the city of Rio de Janeiro, the project is treating about 150 square kilometers over the course of two years and aims to protect 2.5 million city - dwellers for years to come.

An imperiled caribou herd in western Alberta province in Canada could become a high - profile test case for a controversial plan to save some of Canada's woodland caribou from extinction: herding them into pens enclosing 100 square kilometers or more and ringed with electric fences, and killing or removing every predator inside.

If 10 square kilometers are monitored for the next breaking - and - entering crime in a series, the model can detect an average of 65 % of the crimes.

For starters, he wants better safeguards for 12,000 square kilometers of coral reefs in the Northwest Hawaiian Islands, home to nearly 70 % of U.S. reeFor starters, he wants better safeguards for 12,000 square kilometers of coral reefs in the Northwest Hawaiian Islands, home to nearly 70 % of U.S. reefor 12,000 square kilometers of coral reefs in the Northwest Hawaiian Islands, home to nearly 70 % of U.S. reefs.

That's the 140,000 - square - kilometer area that feeds many of Texas's major rivers, such as the Nueces, Frio, Guadalupe, and Llano, as well as the Edwards Aquifer — possibly the most critically important water resource for the state.

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.

Martin Dokulil of the Institute for Limnology at the University of Innsbruck studied data from nine lakes larger than 10 square kilometers, or about 2,500 acres.

The bay is crucial to knots and other shorebirds because its 600 square kilometers of mud and sand are filled with enough clams and mussels for the birds to feast on for months, Morrison says.

Mount Vesuvius, the volcano most famous for blanketing the towns of Pompei and Herculaneum with lava and debris in A.D. 79, may be sitting atop a reservoir of magma that covers more than 400 square kilometers, a new study suggests.

This year's maximum extent, reached on March 7 at 5.57 million square miles (14.42 million square kilometers), is 37,000 square miles (97,00 square kilometers) below the previous record low, which occurred in 2015, and 471,000 square miles (1.22 million square kilometers) smaller than the average maximum extent for 1981 - 2010.

Digby Race of the Cooperative Research Centre for Remote Economic Participation, in Alice Springs and The Australian National University, in Canberra and colleagues from other universities, report that there is great potential for 200,000 people who live in Australia's vast desert area which covers about 3.6 million square kilometers.

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.

The early September rate of decline also greatly exceeded the rate observed for the same period during the record low year of 2012 (19,000 square kilometers, or 7,340 square miles, per day).

Over protests from conservation and citizen groups, on August 14 the BLM auctioned off energy leases for all of the remaining public land on the Roan encompassing 54,631 acres (221 square kilometers).

The team's simulations estimate this slowdown effect results in a practical upper limit of 1 megawatt per square kilometer that can be generated — far less than previous estimates not accounting for the effect.

Gross, for his part, estimates that the entire state of California's peak electricity demand could be generated from an eSolar field of 65 square kilometers.

The IUCN, using data from British - based environmental group Earthsight, found that palm oil already covers 1,000 square kilometers of Central Africa and that 1 million square kilometers in the region are suitable for the crop.