The median Outlook value for September 2015 sea ice extent is 5.0 million
square kilometers with quartiles of 4.4 and 5.2 million square kilometers (See Figure 1 in the full report, below).
(Intact forest landscapes were defined as areas larger than 500
square kilometers with no signs of human activity in Landsat imagery).
The median Outlook value for September 2014 sea ice extent is 4.7 million
square kilometers with quartiles of 4.2 and 5.1 million square kilometers (See Figure 1).
Our projected Arctic sea ice extent from the NCEP CFSv2 model with June 2013 revised - initial condition using 30 - member ensemble forecast is (surprisingly increased to) 4.7 million
square kilometers with a standard deviation of 0.4 million square kilometers.
This approach yields a forecast of 5.6 million
square kilometers with a one standard deviation range between 4.6 and 6.4 millions 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 regency spreads on 368
square kilometers with the total population around 416.728 people.
The eruptions continued unabated for several days, burying over 15
square kilometers with rocks, lava and ash.
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.
Not exact matches
With more
square miles (
kilometers) than Manhattan, Boston and San Francisco combined, Detroit didn't have enough tax revenue to reliably cover pensions, retiree health insurance and buckets of debt sold to keep the budget afloat.
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.
The report finds that Lake Erie has the highest concentration of the beads out of all the Great Lakes
with roughly 46,000 per
square kilometer.
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.
When SKA is completed in the late 2020s, it will be the world's largest radio telescope and science infrastructure,
with the total area of the dishes measuring one
square kilometer.
«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.
The high - resolution maps cover 3,564
square kilometers of the McMurdo Dry Valleys and allow researchers to compare present - day conditions
with lower - resolution LIDAR surveys conducted almost 13 years ago.
The Hamoun wetlands, which once encompassed as much as 5800
square kilometers along Iran's border
with Afghanistan and supported settlements stretching back 5 millennia, «are an ecological catastrophe,» says Nayyereh Pourmollae, who heads the environment department of Sistan and Baluchestan province in southeastern Iran.
The results, published today in Scientific Reports, reveal that the GPGP, defined as the area
with more than 10 kg of plastic per km2, measures 1.6 million
square kilometers, three times the size of continental France.
The crown jewel of Białowieża is the 48 -
square -
kilometer «strict reserve» within the national park, which visitors must enter
with a guide.
These range from pé de ouro (golden feet)-- one of the most heavily harvested species — to sempre - viva gigante, the largest species,
with a head the size of a quarter, which is now so rare that it only occupies a two -
square -
kilometer plot of land.
As far as archaeologists can tell, people here were loosely connected culturally to Scandinavia and lived
with their extended families on individual farmsteads,
with a population density of fewer than five people per
square kilometer.
Their calculations show the 2010 drought affected 3 million
square kilometers of rainforest, compared
with 1.9 million
square kilometers during the 2005 dry spell.
Camara says that the country now needs a new real - time system
with 20 times more spatial resolution than the current one to spot areas down to 0.2
square kilometer.
GeoEye's IKONOS, currently its premier satellite, provides resolution at better than one meter, but the company plans this August to launch GeoEye - 1, a polar orbiting satellite equipped
with a camera that can capture up to 700,000
square kilometers of black - and - white and 350,000
square kilometers of color imagery a day.
In 1986, Venezuela's Raúl Leoni Dam flooded 1,660
square miles (4,300
square kilometers) of land, creating the vast Lake Guri, along
with a scattering of nonsubmerged land.
With conservative assumptions about sea level rise and the subsidence of the area, two diversion structures — large concrete sluices placed in the river embankment — would create about 700
square kilometers of land over 30 years, said Gary Parker of the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign.
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.
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.
In areas
with no piles, about two ravens show up per
square kilometer.
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.
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.
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.
Since 2001, the ISA has granted 26 mining exploration contracts covering more than one million
square kilometers of seabed,
with 18 of these contracts granted in the last four years.
The idea of SKA is to create a radiotelescope
with a collecting area of 1
square kilometer.
Square Kilometer Array What: The world's largest radio telescope,
with an array of 150 antennas, each 330 feet across.
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.
Meanwhile, South Africa is in competition
with Australia to land the $ 1.5 - billion SKA (
Square Kilometer Array), a planned one - square - kilometer telescope comprising numerous radio dishes working in co
Square Kilometer Array), a planned one - square - kilometer telescope comprising numerous radio dishes working in
Kilometer Array), a planned one -
square - kilometer telescope comprising numerous radio dishes working in co
square -
kilometer telescope comprising numerous radio dishes working in
kilometer telescope comprising numerous radio dishes working in concert.
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With an area of 110
square kilometers, this is the largest caldera collapse ever monitored.
With such ideal conditions, the group dissolved seven metric tons of iron sulfate in acidic seawater and spewed the solution into the ship's propeller wash starting on February 13, 2004, covering a circular patch in the eddy of some 167
square kilometers.
The four cases appear to have been infected in early July just north of downtown Miami in an area of about 2.5
square kilometers, the Florida health department reported after doing intensive investigations to rule out the possibility that the patients were infected by traveling to affected countries or via sex
with infected people.
In keeping
with the mission's ancient Egypt theme, the
square -
kilometer landing zone has been named Agilkia, after an island in the Nile River.
The 120 - telescope project will have two parts: a southern array
with 100 instruments distributed over 10
square kilometers and a northern array
with 20 instruments spread over 1
square kilometer.
The new research solves this mystery by connecting the atmospheric waves to vibrations of the Ross Ice Shelf — the largest ice shelf in the world
with an area of almost half a million
square kilometers (188,000 miles), roughly the size of France.
Sardinia (right) alone has five such species, most
with ranges smaller than 500
square kilometers.
Together
with former PhD - student Ylva - li Blanck of the Norwegian University of Life Science, researchers Jørund Rolstad and Ken Olaf Storaunet collected and analyzed 459 wood samples from old, fire - damaged pine tree stumps, snags, downed logs and living trees in 74
square kilometers (28
square miles) study area in Trillemarka - Rollagsfjell nature reserve.
With low lion numbers and large herds of impala, the Northern Tuli Game Reserve, a 280
square mile (720
square kilometer) chunk of land nestled between Zimbabwe and South Africa on the Limpopo and Shashe rivers is also the perfect plot of land to support its own pack.
In contrast, brown bears,
with a minimum range of 0.5
square kilometers, spent only 10 % of the day pacing and had negligible infant mortality.
In May six nations in Southeast Asia,
with technical support from the Nature Conservancy, WWF and Conservation International, committed to the Coral Triangle Initiative, which will protect 75,000
square kilometers of coastline, coral reefs and ocean.
For most of May Chris Darimont, an environmental scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, poured liters of fermented cattle blood mixed
with pureed rotten fish guts on 3,000
square kilometers of British Columbia's coastal wilderness.
Nanocomp says it can produce nanotubes that are tens to hundreds of times as long, forming carbon yarns and sheets (yarns up to one
kilometer in length,
with a tensile strength better than steel, and sheets made in 18 -
square - foot sections).