Sentences with phrase «square kilometres between»

The base of the ice around the south pole shrank by 1,463 square kilometres between 2010 and 2016» Study published April 2 in Nature Geoscience.

The Garbage Patch is an area of 1.6 million square kilometres between Hawaii and California, where plastic debris accumulates.

UQ's School of Earth and Environmental Sciences James Allan said the study looked at patterns of forest loss and found the reserve had lost 108 square kilometres between 2001 and 2014 due to agriculture and human settlement.

The Garbage Patch is an area of 1.6 million square kilometres between Hawaii and California.

The West Pennine Moors is the largest new site of special scientific interest (SSSI) notified by Natural England (NE) since 2004, covering a total of 76 square kilometres between Chorley, Blackburn, Bolton and Haslingden in Lancashire and Greater Manchester.

Not exact matches

However, the latest estimate of its size, published Thursday, is between four and 16 times larger than previous reports: a whopping 1.6 million square kilometres, or 617,763 square miles.

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

According to News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, details of the project indicate the development of a sugar cane plantation of about 16,000 hectares or 160 kilometre square, longer than Lagos to Ibadan expressway which is estimated between 120 kilometres and 130 kilometers — more than 30 kilometres shorter than the proposed sugar plantation.

Before 2000 the smallest expanse of sea ice varied between 6.2 and 7.9 million square kilometres.

According to a painstaking satellite survey of 1.3 million lakes stretching from coast to coast, the country lost 6700 square kilometres — or 1.2 per cent — of its water surface area between 2000 and 2009.

They found that the bamboo forests in which the pandas live shrank by 4.9 % between 1976 and 2001, to about 55,500 square kilometres.

In the San Francisco Bay area, sea level rise alone could inundate an area of between 50 and 410 square kilometres by 2100, depending both on how much action is taken to limit further global warming and how fast the polar ice sheets melt.

But when land subsidence is also taken into account, the area vulnerable to flooding during high tides and storm surges rises to between 130 and 430 square kilometres.

But if land subsidence is also taken into account, the area vulnerable to flooding during high tides and storm surges rises to between 130 and 430 square kilometres.

On its own, sea level rise could inundate between 50 and 410 square kilometres of this area by 2100, depending on how much is done to limit further global warming and how fast the polar ice sheets melt.

They are hoping the seismic data they collect between now and mid-September will support the claim of Denmark and Greenland to 150,000 square kilometres of extra territory extending north from Greenland into the oil and gas - rich Arctic sea floor.

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.

The MWA observes radio waves with frequencies between 70 and 320 MHz and was the first of the three Square Kilometre Array (SKA) precursors to be completed.

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

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

Spread out at the foot of towering cliffs, Emirates One & Only Wolgan Valley resort occupies just 1 per cent of a private 7000 acre (28 square kilometre) conservation reserve, sited between two national parks in the World Heritage - listed Greater Blue Mountains.

Lying inland from the coast between the mouth of the Orange River and Port Nolloth, the area regarded as the Richtersveld is 8 000 square kilometres of coastal plain and sandveld, to the east of which lies the true Richtersveld — 3 000 square kilometres of geologically complex desert mountainland.

It is not the only ice mass of Greenland — isolated glaciers and small ice caps cover between 76,000 and 100,000 square kilometres around the periphery.»

In case of achieving the 450 Scenario, that for instance requires all industrialised nations to reduce their GHG emissions by 25 - 40 percent between 1990 and 2020, Arctic summer sea ice would recover from around 2035 - quite sharply - and establish a new equilibrium state at around 2.5 million square kilometres of ice, still a loss of almost 2 million compared to the current situation.

The scientists found that almost 70 % of the organic carbon initially present in the weathered bedrock had been oxidised by soil microbes, to put, for every square kilometre they measured, somewhere between six and 18 tonnes of carbon back into the atmosphere.

But the land that could be used to resettle those refugees is dwindling: between 1981 and 2003, around 35 million square kilometres of the planet became «degraded» and now make up almost one fourth of the world's drylands.

The programmes of land retirement and reservation have been so successful worldwide that between 1982 and 2003, national parks grew from nine million square kilometres to 19million, 12.5 per cent of the earth's surface — or more than the combined land of China and South - East Asia.

The climatological model output paper you referred to does indeed define ice free to be anywhere between no ice at all and 1000000 square kilometres.

Alternatively, the «lost services» per square kilometre amount to between $ 43,000 and $ 72,000.

The area in question is around 48,000 square kilometres south of James Bay and west of the border between Quebec and Ontario.

The claim covers approximately 42,000 square kilometres of sea, above the high water mark in the Torres Strait and Coral Sea between Cape York Peninsula and the mainland of Papua New Guinea.