Sentences with phrase «square miles smaller»

This was 27,000 square miles smaller than the previous record low of 1.61 million square miles set in 2007.

The warmth made daily sea ice extents average about 232,000 square miles smaller than during any May in the 38 years scientists have been gathering data using satellites.

It spread across 4.63 million square miles of the Arctic Ocean, Hudson Bay and adjacent areas of the North Atlantic — an area 224,000 square miles smaller than the previous low record for the month set in 2004.

This was the smallest June extent since records began in 1979 and 100,000 square miles smaller than the previous record set in 2010.

The warmth made daily sea ice extents average about 232,000 square miles smaller than during any May in the 38 years scientists have been gathering data using satellites.

Not exact matches

But that all changed earlier this month when Florida public health officials reported a handful of cases originating from mosquito bites in the relative small, one - square - mile neighborhood of Wynwood just north of downtown Miami.

Singapore, the smallest nation in Asia, occupies a 225 - square - mile expanse of swampy, tropical islands — an area about the size of Trenton, New Jersey.

Frisco, Texas, is proposing turning its small city — a population of about 160,000 over 62 square miles — into a company town dominated by Amazon.

With a total area of just 12.8 square miles, Mountain Brook manages to pack a lot of punch into such a small space.

«In Israel, there is more courage in one small square mile than in whole of Europe,» Beck said in a politically charged speech at the event.

I don't think I can see my house from the monastery, but on clear days, which are rare enough in western Oregon this time of year, I can get a 360 - degree view of the valley, encompassing hundreds of square miles of farms, fields, nurseries and small forests of Christmas trees.

Comprised of approximately 11 square miles, this small town packs a huge travel and tourism punch, boasting some of the world's most well - known theme parks and attractions.

Alpine is the seat of Brewster County, the largest county in Texas in size (6,169 square miles) and one of the smallest in population (8,000).

The boundaries spread over 720 square miles and include the mega-city of Los Angeles as well as all or parts of 31 smaller municipalities plus several unincorporated sections of Southern California.

Both are outside the historic district, which is only a small part of the 12.4 - square - mile village.

The 13th Congressional district, redrawn in 2013, covers stretches of Northern Manhattan and the Bronx, and at just 10 square miles, it is the smallest district in terms of geographic size in the country.

In this process the City also lost small parcels of land, though there was an overall net gain (the City grew from 1.05 to 1.12 square miles).

While the decline of green vegetation was small, the area affected was not: 2.1 million square miles (5.4 million square kilometers), equivalent to over half the area of the continental United States.

Small electric vehicles, guided in part by magnets embedded in the road, will act as driverless taxicabs serving 83 stations situated throughout the roughly 2.5 - square - mile city.

Ramanathan and colleagues plan to demonstrate this on a small scale over the next few years in the Himalayas, over a 12 - square - mile area in the foothills.

The zone, which at about 5,000 square miles (13,000 sq km) is the second largest in the world but still smaller than in previous years, is so named because it contains no oxygen, or too little, at the Gulf floor to support bottom - dwelling fish and shrimp.

Now, after decades of grim losses, the news from the Aral Sea is good: Since the dam's completion last August, the smaller, northern part of the Aral Sea has swelled by 30 percent, flooding more than 300 square miles of parched, sun - bleached seabed.

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.

This is in contrast to 2012, when drought conditions resulted in the fourth smallest dead zones on record, measuring 2,889 square miles, an area slightly larger than Delaware.

It is larger than the pieces that broke away in January 2017, but smaller than the 583 - square - kilometer (225 - square - mile) iceberg that was spawned in July 2015.

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.

For example, grids of just one mile square would enable models to simulate the small - scale conditions that catapult a routine thunderstorm or hurricane into a monster.

A long, crescent - shaped lick of fertile flatlands that stretches more than 450 miles and covers 22,000 square miles (slightly smaller than West Virginia), the Central Valley is nestled between the coastal mountains on the west and the Sierra Nevada to the east.

Last week in response to the scientists» demands, CCAMLR made a small step in banning bottom trawling in two 150 square mile areas, but it has skirted the issue of designating marine protected areas that would make the most sensitive regions off limits to all forms of fishing.

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.

Hawkings and his collaborators spent three months in 2012 and 2013 gathering water samples and measuring the flow of water from the 600 - square - kilometer (230 - square - mile) Leverett Glacier and the smaller, 36 - square - kilometer (14 - square - mile) Kiattuut Sermiat Glacier in Greenland as part of a Natural Environment Research Council - funded project to understand how much phosphorus, in various forms, was escaping from the ice sheet over time and draining into the sea.

The ZooKeys article describes the first study of the behavior, diet, and conservation status of this flying fox, finding that the Mortlock Islands support a small population of 900 to 1200 bats scattered across a land surface of only 12 km2 (4.6 square miles).

Antarctica's sea - ice cover was also greatly reduced, measuring about 154,000 square miles (398,858 kilometers) smaller than it was in 1986, the previous record - holding year.

Covering 1.59 million square miles (4.12 million square kilometers), this summer's sea ice shattered the previous record for the smallest ice cap of 2.05 million square miles (5.31 million square kilometers) in 2005 — a further loss of sea ice area equivalent to the states of California and Texas combined.

The ice coverage on the Arctic Ocean shriveled last September to 1.32 million square miles, the smallest expanse ever recorded and less than half the area covered by sea ice three decades ago.

Although we are searching many, many square miles, the ocean is very, very large, and you are very small.

Last year's dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico was the fourth smallest on record due to drought conditions, covering an area of approximately 2,889 square miles, an area slightly larger than the state of Delaware.

In total, it covers some 600,000 square miles, although but a small portion is actually exposed.

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.

This was the fourth smallest August extent since records began in 1979 and about 344,000 square miles larger than the record smallest August sea ice extent in 2012.

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.

That beat last year's record low of 5.612 million square miles, set on Feb. 25, 2015, by 5,000 square miles or just a bit smaller than the area of Connecticut.

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.

On September 10, Arctic sea ice reached its annual minimum extent at 1.60 million square miles, statistically tying 2007 as the second smallest extent in the 1979 — 2016 satellite record, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

The 2016 Arctic sea ice minimum was 290,000 square miles larger than the record small minimum that occurred in 2012.

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.

Interesting Facts Vatican City for your visit with the KIDS Vatican City is the smallest country in the world — just.17 square miles.

The United Kingdom is much smaller than the United States with just over 93,600 square miles of land, but unlike the US, the UK has four different constituents: England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.

Since GTA V was measured at 22.3 square miles, Red Dead Redemption 2 will likely be smaller.

An important limitation of this measure is that it does not take into account the wide variation in the geographic size of districts (e.g., a small district could be classified as sparse even if it has many schools per square mile and a large district could be classified as dense even if it has very few schools per square miles).