Sentences with phrase «square kilometers smaller»

According to the NSIDC the Arctic sea ice extent for January 2016 was 90,000 square kilometers smaller than the previous record - low January ice extent, of 2011.

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.

Weather balloon measurements and other data showed that last September, the ozone hole was 4 million square kilometers smaller than its peak size.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

While the decline of green vegetation was small, the area affected was not: 2.1 million square miles (5.4 million square kilometers), equivalent to over half the area of the continental United States.

In 2002 35 percent of the total area cleared of trees consisted of land swaths smaller than 0.5 square kilometer, whereas by 2010, the contribution of these small areas to the overall deforestation number increased to 80 percent.

But if proposed protections are put in place, the study projects a much smaller area of forest would be lost — 41,650 square kilometers, over 113,000 square kilometers less than under the agricultural development scenario.

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.

The newly described venomous snake has been reported only in a small, 320 - square - kilometer area of Golfo Dulce.

It is larger than the pieces that broke away in January 2017, but smaller than the 583 - square - kilometer (225 - square - mile) iceberg that was spawned in July 2015.

Anthropologist Michael Heckenberger of the University of Florida teamed with the local Kuikuro people in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso to uncover 28 towns, villages and hamlets that may have supported as many as 50,000 people within roughly 7,700 square miles (20,000 square kilometers) of forest — an area slightly smaller than New Jersey.

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.

Hawkings and his collaborators spent three months in 2012 and 2013 gathering water samples and measuring the flow of water from the 600 - square - kilometer (230 - square - mile) Leverett Glacier and the smaller, 36 - square - kilometer (14 - square - mile) Kiattuut Sermiat Glacier in Greenland as part of a Natural Environment Research Council - funded project to understand how much phosphorus, in various forms, was escaping from the ice sheet over time and draining into the sea.

Antarctica's sea - ice cover was also greatly reduced, measuring about 154,000 square miles (398,858 kilometers) smaller than it was in 1986, the previous record - holding year.

Ten European species, including five on Sardinia in Italy, each live in an area smaller than 5000 square kilometers, and a species named Calotriton arnoldi makes its home in less than 10 square kilometers in a Spanish nature park.

Sardinia (right) alone has five such species, most with ranges smaller than 500 square kilometers.

Covering 1.59 million square miles (4.12 million square kilometers), this summer's sea ice shattered the previous record for the smallest ice cap of 2.05 million square miles (5.31 million square kilometers) in 2005 — a further loss of sea ice area equivalent to the states of California and Texas combined.

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.

Upcoming next - generation radio telescopes, such as the Square Kilometer Array, slated to be the world's largest radio telescope, and a suite of smaller planned telescopes called «light buckets» should help astronomers sort out the possibilities.

Arctic sea ice extent was below normal for the 11th consecutive April this year, covering an average of 5.7 million square miles (14.7 million square kilometers) 2.1 percent below the 1979 - 2000 average extent and the 15th smallest April extent since records began in 1979.

This resort is located on the north coast of Jamaica, an island nation that is smaller than the state of Connecticut, but has the largest number of churches per square kilometer.

With an unique mix of old and new, this stylish accommodation is located in the heart of Beijing at The Village of Sanliturn.Being amidst a vibrant area, guests can easily locate top restaurants and attractions such as Made in China, specializing in northern Chinese cuisine just six kilometers away.Visits to Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven and Summer Palace are always recommended as well as other scenic attractions.Exquisitely designed, the property offers tastefully decorated guest rooms well - equipped with modern facilities.Featuring a Green Room with 104 square meters of event space, the room is ideal for small scale meetings or press conferences.

When it was finally over, the eruptions had killed 87 people and buried 3 small villages — Tabacón, Pueblo Nuevo and San Luís — and affected more than 232 square kilometers of land.

The Dubai Marina owes its name to an almost 4 - kilometer long manmade canal, where the curving waterside promenades run alongside a large marina and some smaller boat docks as well as numerous restaurants, cafes, boutiques, and a shopping center with approximately 120,000 square feet of retail space.

700 of about 23000 square kilometers of the state Belize is composed of small, coastal islands.

When it was finally over, the eruptions had killed 87 people and destroyed three small villages — Tabacón, Pueblo Nuevo and San Luís — affecting more than 232 square kilometers of land.

Bali is a part of Indonesian archipelago; lying 3.2 km east of Java and 24 west of Lombok, compare with some of the Indonesian archipelago's giant islands, Bali is quite small with an area of 5,632 square kilometers The island is approximately 135 km wide east to west and 90 km north to south.

Using the game's own distance calculations while traveling between islands, I determined that Black Flag's playable area compresses the Caribbean down to sixteen square kilometers, a good bit smaller than the real thing.

At just 70 square kilometers the park is too small to maintain populations of species that require large home ranges (e.g. clouded leopard).

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.

The only problem with all the predictions about the level of the World Ocean rising is that, the World Ocean is refusing to rise up in support of the predictions, the other problem is that ice is frozen fresh water and frozen fresh water only covers about 5 % of this planet above sea level and frozen water under the level of the World Ocean does not count as the World Ocean will fall a small amount if that ice melts, so if the ice there is enough to get the World Ocean to rise and significant amount then it must be piled up very high, I cubic kilometer of water as ice, should it melt, would make 1000 square kilometers rise by one meter, so when you use this simple math then somewhere on the planet, above the level of the sea, then there must be over 500,000 cubic kilometers of ice, piled up and just waiting to melt, strange that no one can find that amount of ice, all these morons who talk about the rise of the World Ocean in tens of meters, this includes you Peter Garrett or Mr. 7 Meters, the ice does not exist to allow this amount of rise in the World Ocean, it is just not there.

For example, relatively small increases in sea temperature (as little as 1 — 2 °C) can cause mass coral bleaching and mortality across hundreds of square kilometers of coral reef (high confidence).

The spatial resolution of an average IPCC AR4 climate model is about 55,350 square kilometers, or a square 235 km on a side (the highest resolution models resolve areas as small as 100 km on a side).

The 17 statistical contributions have a smaller median, at 4.3 million square kilometers, and narrower spread, with quartiles of 4.1 and 4.6 million square kilometers.

For perspective, when the smallest extent was recorded last year, the Arctic's icy cover measured 1.32 million square miles (3.41 million square kilometers).

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).

While approximately 1.5 million square kilometers of suitable habitat still remain in Asia -LRB-[9], Figure 1), tigers today are distributed heterogeneously [7], [13] and, except in the Russian Far East, are now restricted to small pockets, mostly in protected areas.

For average relative error, or error relative to other years, the error is approximately 20,000 to 30,000 square kilometers (7,700 to 11,600 square miles), a small fraction of the total existing sea ice.

The median forecast of heuristic forecasts is 4.0 million square kilometers and the spread is small.

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.

In contrast to the polar regions, the network of lower latitude small glaciers and ice caps, although making up only about four percent of the total land ice area or about 760,000 square kilometers, may have provided as much as 60 percent of the total glacier contribution to sea level change since 1990s (Meier et al. 2007).

A small army of workers and heavy equipment currently inhabit the 6.5 square kilometer site of the future eco-city.