Sentences with phrase «square kilometre for»

Wikipedia, 2013/05/20, stated that the total installed wind power in Iowa was 5137MW in 2012 (at the same time the total for the whole of Australia was about 2600MW) and that Iowa had the greatest wind power capacity per square kilometre for any US state.

In an area of some nine square kilometres for which radar satellite data is available, they collected laser scanning data from more than 40 plots, and integrated this data into a model for calculating the biomass.

The ice extent is about to drop below 4 million square kilometres for the first time in the satellite record, and the Arctic has shed almost half a million square kilometres of sea - ice in last five days!

«My prediction remains that the Arctic ice may well disappear, that is, have an area of less than one million square kilometres for September of this year,» he said.

Professor Peter Wadhams of Cambridge University predicts we could see «an area of less than one million square kilometres for September of this year» 2016

Not exact matches

The suggested site for the 10 - square - kilometre facility is Kitimat, B.C., the would - be last stop on the Northern Gateway pipeline.

In 2003, London Mayor Ken Livingstone implemented a flat fee of # 5 for any car entering a 22 - square - kilometre section of downtown.

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

These conditions introduced in 1990 are largely arbitrary, allowing the 50 percent deviation for constituencies which exceed 20,000 square kilometres, are in excess of 150 kilometres away from the Legislative Assembly Building, include no town larger than 8,000 people (the original bill required no town larger than 4,000 people), include an Indian reserve or Métis settlement and share a border with the provincial boundary.

Automated materials handling solutions specialist TGW Logistics has completed a major milestone in the development of a huge logistics centre being built for Swiss food company Coop on a 110,000 square kilometre site in Schafisheim — one of the largest construction sites in Switzerland.

Resources industry figures are angry over new Premier Steven Marshall's plans to impose a 10 - year ban on fracking in a 21,000 - square - kilometre region in South Australia's south - east, and say it undermines his mantra that the state is open for business.

With the Wassa Fiase Traditional Area donating 26 square kilometres of land to the University, for the construction of a 20,000 student capacity campus, President Akufo - Addo announced that «Government will give an annual special budgetary allocation of five million cedis (GH cents 5 million) to the University for the realisation of the project.»

A campaign lasting for months in the 1,300 square - kilometre (500 square - mile) forest in northeastern Borno state led to the «final crushing of Boko Haram terrorists in their last enclave in Sambisa Forest» on Thursday, Buhari said in a statement.

With some luck (and money), the ATA will continue its search for extraterrestrial civilizations at least through 2016, when there will be a new, much bigger kid on the block: the $ 2.1 billion Square Kilometre Array, or SKA, a collaboration among 70 organizations in 20 countries.

The border - jumping Ebola outbreak and development of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope prove science diplomacy is essential for Africa and beyond.

BASF is one of the biggest chemical companies in the world and operations in Germany are concentrated in this one site, 7 square kilometres entirely composed of interlinked factories, eliminating the need for storage of intermediates.

But the real debut for this technology is likely to be the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the world's largest radio telescope, whose thousands of antennas will be strewn across the southern hemisphere (New Scientist, 2 June, p 4).

The 45,000 - square - kilometre lake would be one of the world's largest lakes if it existed today, and it was in the right place at the right time for at least one of two key migrations.

In a typical urban area with a high level of background air pollution — for example, around 15 micrograms of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) per cubic metre, or a nitrogen dioxide concentration around 33 micrograms per cubic metre — an extra 300 trees per square kilometre was associated with around 50 fewer emergency asthma cases per 100,000 residents over the 15 year study period.

Astronomy has been another field of growth in South Africa, and Pandor said the country was thrilled to be chosen as one of the sites for the massive Square Kilometre Array radio telescope project.

Measuring the atomic hydrogen signal emitted by distant galaxies is one of the main scientific drivers behind the billion dollar Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project, for which technology demonstrators like the Australian SKA Pathfinder are under construction.

«Big science needs a lot of compute power — right now we're designing systems to manage data for several large facilities around the world and the next generation of radio telescopes, including China's 500m radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array and the SKA's pathfinder telescopes that are already up and running in outback Western Australia.»

Brazil's National Institute for Space Research says that 480 square kilometres of forest in Mato Grosso state was cleared in March and April combined — more than six times as much as in the same period last year.

In India, for instance, 5700 square kilometres of coastal area are at risk of inundation, and 7.1 million people could be displaced (see Diagram).

Chang says it would cost about $ 20 million, a tiny fraction of the $ 2 billion radio astronomers want for the proposed Square Kilometre Array (SKA) of radio telescopes, which aims to trace large - scale structure by locating individual galaxies.

Researchers are now looking back to the history of Larsen A and B to understand what the future might hold for Larsen C, which covers 50,000 square kilometres with ice up to 350 metres thick.

Such a hit is blamed for the Tunguska event in 1908, which levelled a 2000 - square - kilometre swathe of forest in Siberia.

Losses from conversions in the period 2008 to 2014, especially for agricultural and pasture land, averaged 71 square kilometres per year for all species in the study area.

The floats would be located eight kilometres from the coast, and occupy up to 5000 square metres for a 1 - megawatt station, so they would not interfere with tourism.

Based on preliminary assessments, the research team suggested M. laterite to be classified as Endangered under the guidelines of the Red List by International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), as the geographic range of the frog is narrow, within an area of 150 square kilometres in southwest India.

Over the past two decades my company has used imaging radar satellites to map oil on the sea surface for 70 million square kilometres of ocean.

According to Tickle, the main reason for the difference is that the British government does not include vulnerable areas unless they are the dominant ecosystem in a standard grid of 100 square kilometres.

The group is seeking funds for pilot research involving 10 ships and 10,000 square kilometres of ocean.

According to figures he has obtained from the American Geophysical Union, roads, highways and open - air parking lots in the lower 48 US states account for more than 100,000 square kilometres of surface area.

One plan is for a 900 - megawatt barrage that would block off a basin of water covering 954 square kilometres.

For comparison, the summertime minimums in the 1970s and 1980s were roughly seven million square kilometres.

We do not expect an extent of 6 or 7 million square kilometres in the coming decades, as it was typical for the decades up to the year 2000.»

Last week, the Inuit - owned Nunavut Resources Corporation hit Wall Street asking for $ 18 million to help prospect half - a-million square kilometres of the Kitikmeot region in northern Canada.

Focusing on plover habitat would preserve 14.46 million years of evolution for each 10,000 square kilometres conserved.

Its TRY 2004 building would occupy about 8 square kilometres of land and provide offices and homes for a million people.

The study, published in Nature Climate Change, suggests that nearly 4 million square kilometres of frozen soil — an area larger than India — could be lost for every additional degree of global warming experienced.

For forty years, the contractors who ran Hanford dumped their nuclear and chemical waste more or less indiscriminately throughout the site, which covers an area of 1456 square kilometres.

Researchers used the new survey of the Messak Settafet to estimate that enough stone tools were discarded over the course of human evolution in Africa to build more than one Great Pyramid for every square kilometre of land on the continent.

Also, the Square Kilometre Array SKA, the largest - ever radio telescope being built in South Africa and Australia, will look for characteristic helium radiation from the very early universe that is expected to be found around primordial black holes.

Developed in a collaboration between 13 different institutions harking from Australia, U.S.A., India and New Zealand, the new telescope array is located at the Murchison Radio - astronomy Observatory (MRO) around 800 km (497 miles) from Perth, a site that has also been selected as the future home for a portion of the Square Kilometre Array.

Satellite data records reveal that the worrying loss of hundreds of square kilometres of ice along West Antarctica's coastline has been occurring for decades

Convert between different units of measure [for example, kilometre to metre; hour to minute] Measure and calculate the perimeter of a rectilinear figure (including squares) in centimetres and metres Find the area of rectilinear shapes by counting squares Estimate, compare and calculate different measures, including money in pounds and pence Read, write and convert time between analogue and digital 12 - and 24 - hour clocks Solve problems involving converting from hours to minutes, minutes to seconds, years to months, weeks to days

Online learning environments have been a game changer for Australian distance educators whose «classrooms» cover thousands of square kilometres, but it's more than just a case of being able to reach isolated areas.

Objectives covered: Convert between different units of measure [for example, kilometre to metre; hour to minute] Measure and calculate the perimeter of a rectilinear figure (including squares) in centimetres and metres Find the area of rectilinear shapes by counting squares Estimate, compare and calculate different measures, including money in pounds and pence Read, write and convert time between analogue and digital 12 - and 24 - hour clocks Solve problems involving converting from hours to minutes, minutes to seconds, years to months, weeks to days

With an area of about 340 square kilometres, it is an idyllic spot for those that adore the outdoors as well as families with children seeking a retreat from the city life.