Sentences with phrase «square miles below»

Both these measures put 2011 as the second lowest on record and this year's ice extent was 938,000 square miles below the average from the period 1979 to 2000.

According to NASA, this 2015 max extent, if it remains where it is, is about 50,000 square miles below the previous lowest peak wintertime extent, which occurred in 2011 at 5.66 million square miles.

At 5.607 million square miles, it is the lowest maximum extent in the satellite record, and 431,000 square miles below the 1981 to 2010 average maximum extent.

February saw record low sea ice extent, with ice running a significant 448,000 square miles below average.

This was 800,000 square miles below the 1981 — 2010 average and five days earlier than average.

February saw record low sea ice extent, with ice running 448,000 square miles below average.

According to data from NOAA analyzed by the Rutgers Global Snow Lab, the Northern Hemisphere snow cover extent during April was 890,000 square miles below the 1981 — 2010 average.

The Antarctic sea ice extent for June was 40,000 square miles below the 1981 — 2010 average.

In terms of snow, for the spring season (March - May), the contiguous U.S. snow cover extent was 362,300 square miles below the 1981 - 2010 average.

For the spring season (March - May), the contiguous U.S. snow cover extent was 362,300 square miles below the 1981 - 2010 average.

Sea ice extent was 402,000 square miles below average, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

According to NOAA data analyzed by the Rutgers Global Snow Lab, for the winter season, the contiguous U.S. snow cover extent was 62,000 square miles below the 1981 - 2010 average; this was the 23rd largest (27th smallest) winter snow cover extent for the contiguous U.S. and the smallest since the winter of 2011/12.

The Arctic ice cap melted to hundreds of thousands of square miles below average this summer.

The Antarctic summer minimum was 813,000 square miles, or 900,000 square miles below the 1981 - 2010 average and 71,000 square miles below the previous record low set in 1997.

This area came in just under 2015's maximum of 5.605 million square miles (the NSIDC slightly revised its numbers last summer, so 2015's maximum actually ranks lower than 2016) and 471,000 square miles below the 1981 - 2010 average, an area larger than California and Texas combined.

At 5.57 million square miles, it is the lowest maximum extent in the satellite record, and 455,600 square miles below the 1981 to 2010 average maximum extent.

Not exact matches

In an analysis, the National Snow and Ice Data Center said the sea ice extent as of Sept. 16 was 2 million square miles, an amount just below revised estimates for 2009, the former sixth place finisher, said Julienen Stroeve, a scientist at the center.

Arctic: The average Arctic sea ice extent for August was 2.40 million square miles, 390,000 square miles (13.9 percent) below the 1981 - 2010 average and the seventh smallest August extent since records began in 1979 but the largest since 2009, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

The National Snow and Ice Data Center reports that Arctic ice shrank by 131,000 square miles between August 17 and 21, leaving ice coverage that is well below the 2005 record low of 2.05 million square miles.

In Antarctica, this year's record low annual sea ice minimum of 815,000 square miles (2.11 million square kilometers) was 71,000 square miles (184,000 square kilometers) below the previous lowest minimum extent in the satellite record, which occurred in 1997.

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.

The play is mostly a Natural Gas Play and lies at depths of 10,500 to 13,000 feet below the surface and covers an area of roughly 9000 square miles.

This was the smallest April Northern Hemisphere snow cover extent in the 50 - year period of record, dropping below the previous record set in 1968 by 30,000 square miles.

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.

The average Arctic sea ice extent for November 2016 was 750,000 square miles (17.7 percent) below the 1981 — 2010 average, according to analysis by the National Snow and Ice Data Center using data from NOAA and NASA.

Antarctic sea ice extent during November 2016 was 700,000 square miles (11.1 percent) below the 1981 — 2010 average.

The average Arctic sea ice extent for October 2016 was 980,000 square miles (28.5 percent) below the 1981 — 2010 average, according to analysis by the National Snow and Ice Data Center using data from NOAA and NASA.

Antarctic sea ice extent during October 2016 was 290,000 square miles (4.0 percent) below the 1981 — 2010 average.

Antarctic sea ice extent during September 2016 was 150,000 square miles (2.0 percent) below the 1981 — 2010 average.

This value is 400,000 square miles (7.9 percent) below the 1981 — 2010 average, and the second smallest December extent since records began in 1979.

With land that covers 3.8 million square miles, it can be a challenge to pinpoint the best US date spots across the country, but we have done our best to give you a little taste of everything in our suggestions below.

If you fly over the prairies that stretch across the middle of the United States, you see below the farms and municipalities neatly laid out in townships composed of 36 sections, each a mile square.

That dorsal fin is the nearly flat, ten - square - mile (25.9 sq km) Makanalua Peninsula which juts into the Pacific below the world's highest sea cliffs.

This is 1.03 million square kilometers below the 1981 to 2010 average for the month and 890,000 square kilometers (344,000 square miles) above the record low for August set in 2012.

On September 4, it fell below 4.00 million square kilometers (1.54 million square miles), another first in the 33 - year satellite record.

This value is 400,000 square miles (7.9 percent) below the 1981 — 2010 average, and the second smallest December extent since records began in 1979.

This value is 970,000 square miles (22.2 percent) below the 1981 — 2010 average, and the smallest December extent on record.

As of 13 August, «Sea ice extent is currently tracking at 5.4 million square kilometers (2.1 million square miles), with daily extents running at 940,000 square kilometers (361,000 square miles) below previous daily record lows, a significant decline from past years.»

(See editor's note, below) The Colorado - based organization last week declared this year's minimum extent was preliminarily estimated at 1.6 million square miles, about the same as 2007's — and second only to 2012's minimum of about 1.3 million square miles.

The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) and NASA announced in mid-September that the extent of Arctic sea ice had dropped to 3.41 million square kilometers (1.32 million square miles)-- well below the previous record of 4.17 million square kilometers (1.61 million square miles) set in 2007.

Sea ice extent during August averaged just 1.82 million square miles, which, at nearly 40 percent below the 1979 to 2000 average, was the all - time lowest August sea ice extent on record.

By the end of the month, sea ice extent had dropped below 1.4 million square miles, much below the 2007 record level of 1.61 million square miles, NOAA stated.

That's 97,00 square kilometers (37,000 square miles) below the previous record low that occurred in 2015.

The rate of ice loss during July 2016 was slightly below average at 83,800 square kilometers (32,400 square miles) per day.

The 2011 low is 2.38 million square kilometers (919,000 square miles) below the average minimum extent measured between 1979 and 2000.

According to that report, although a sea level rise of 1.6 feet or more would negatively affect large portions of the City, the «worst - case scenario» for sea level rise projects a 1.6 foot increase to be reached in 2047 assuming no mitigation or adaptation efforts... Furthermore, even assuming a 2 - foot sea level rise, only 0.1 square miles of land in the City that isn't potentially protected by levees or other flood control structures is below two feet of elevation.»

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.

As it turned out, 18 of the 20 cities with the states lowest average rates had population densities below 5,000 people per square mile.

(Note: not shown in the chart below but living near bus rapid transit in Boston resulted in access to five times more jobs per square mile compared to the region.)