Sentences with phrase «square km»

There's only 17 square km of it, and it was under the sea until 100 million years ago — quite recently in geological terms.

It also has the lowest population density in the region — only 15 residents per square km.

But the actual record, 4.17 m square km in 2007, was the product of an unusual combination of sunny days, cloudless skies and warm currents flowing up from mid-latitudes.

MASIE products include an ASCII text file of sea ice extent values in square km for each Arctic region, time series plots, and image files that visually show where the sea ice is.

Another, by Forest Research, modelled the impact of trees in a 100 square km area in the East London Green Grid, a major regeneration and development programme.

«The calving occurred sometime between Monday 10th July 2017 and Wednesday 12th July 2017, when a 5,800 square km section of Larsen C finally broke away,» said Project MIDAS in a blog post.

Scientists involved with the 545,000 square km marine reserve set up around the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean last year say it is expected to prevent 25,000 tuna, 10,000 sharks and 10,000 stingrays being caught every year.

Though it's only about an hour ferry ride (or an 11 - minute flight) from St. Maarten, Saba, an extinct volcano that measures just 13 square km with a population of 1,500, is still somewhat off the beaten track.

Parque Nacional da Chapada Diamantina is a 1520 square km national park 400 kms to the west of the city of Salvador in Bahia state.

On clear days, the bridge offers visitors a 10,000 square km view of Georgian Bay and the surrounding countryside.

Giant reserves of more than 100,000 square km make up about 1 percent of all marine protected areas by number, but account for about 70 percent of the total area protected.

Selva Verde is a rainforest lodge built on stilts over the Sarapiqui river This expansive complex stands on the edge of a - square km private reserve of rain forest Its rustic but comfortable rooms are...

Meantime, a cubic 18 km of ice in a big chunk floating and in 6 days 800, ooo square km less of arctic ice und 30 more days to go

For 2C warming, the paper suggests 6.6 m square km of permafrost would be lost, compared with a 1960 - 1990 baseline.

MASIE products include an ASCII text file of sea ice extent values in square km over the entire Northern Hemisphere with 16 separate Arctic regions identified, time series plots of the 16 regions, and image files that visually show where the sea ice is.

This was the 7th lowest extent in the satellite era, and 1.68 million square km below the 1981 - 2010 average, but quite close to the long - term linear trend (Figure 1).

Arctic sea ice extent for the month of September 2017 was 4.70 million square km according to the HadISST1.2 dataset (Rayner et al, 2003).

According to the results, the area covered by carbon - rich frozen ground in the Arctic is expected to shrink by 4m square km for every extra degree that global average surface temperature rises.

Currently covering an area of approximately 15m square km in high latitudes, permafrost accounts for 24 % of exposed land in the northern hemisphere.

The calving occurred sometime between Monday 10th July and Wednesday 12th July, when a 5,800 square km section of Larsen C finally broke away.

Its total area will shrink from the present 500,000 to 100,000 square km by the year 2035,» says former ICSI president V M Kotlyakov in the report Variations of snow and ice in the past and present on a global and regional scale.

Renca protects the area which is approximately 17,800 square miles (46,000 square km), and has done so since 1984.

Known as one of the greenest areas in all of Europe, Abruzzo stretches from the Apennines to the Adriatic and is home to over 3,816.25 square km (about 1,474 square miles) of protected national parkland.

Saudi Arabia's plan to build a 26,500 square km (10,230 square mile) business zone captured both the scale of its ambitions and the worries surrounding them.

The thirty two properties within the Marble Bar paleoplacer gold project cover an area of approximately 1,251 square km in the Nullagine embayment and 554 square km in the Marble Bar subbasin underlain by 2.74 billion year old siliciclastic sedimentary and volcanic rocks belonging to the Fortescue Group, the basal part of the Hamersley Basin located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Manhattan is 59.1 square kms, while the GTA is 7,124 square kms.

[5] This established Chautauqua as a county of 1,100 square miles (2,850 square km) of land.

The value of lost ecosystem services due to land degradation averages US $ 43,400 to $ 72,000 per square km, some US $ 870 to $ 1,450 per person, globally each year

On May 5, Australia's environment minister proposed the creation of a 320,000 square km marine reserve around the country's southwest corner, with 250,000 square km designated «no take»; the plan is expected to be confirmed in the coming months.

The Pew Environment Group's Global Ocean Legacy program has set its sights on two further massive protection areas in the near future: they hope to see New Zealand approve a 630,000 square km area in the Kermadec Islands later this year, and Australia protect 900,000 square km in the Coral Sea in 2012.

Tales of the giant snake brought the state Department of Environmental Protection to the fresh water lake in northern New Jersey - the state's largest at 4 square miles (10 square km)- but the mystery has only deepened, DEP spokesman Bob Considine said on Monday.

Satellite data for the 12 months through the end of July 2013 showed that 5,891 square km (3,360 square miles) of forest were cleared in the Brazilian Amazon, an area half the size of Puerto Rico.

Despite the increase in 2013, the cleared area is still the second - lowest annual figure since the Brazilian government began tracking deforestation in 2004, when almost 30,000 square km (11,580 square miles) of forest were lost.

More than 1,000 square km (390 square miles) has been cleared in each state.

The one trillion tonne iceberg, measuring 5,800 square km, calved away from the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica sometime between July 10 and 12, said scientists at the University of Swansea and the British Antarctic Survey.

The higher resolution was particularly helpful in mountainous areas since the models take an average of the altitude in the grid (25 square km for high resolution, 200 square km for low resolution).

The animal, and some 20 million people live in an area known as Caatinga, a tropical dry forest that once covered 845,000 square km in northeastern brazil that has been reduced in area by 53 percent.

It will peer down at the planet with a small field of view — just 1 square mile (3 square km)-- so that clouds disrupt its measurements as little as possible.