Sentences with phrase «tenths of a millimeter per»

But new modeling studies by Marchant and his team have shown that sublimation of deeply buried ice is extremely slow, less than a tenth of a millimeter per year.

RiseRate = 32; # tenths of a millimeter per year TotalRise = 0; # zero starting sea - level rise for -LRB-(i = 0; i < 2013 - 125; i + +)-RRB-; # loop year - by - year do -LRB-(RiseRate + = 1)-RRB-; # the rise - rate increases -LRB-(TotalRise + = $ RiseRate)-RRB-; # the total rise increases done; # now convert integer arithmetic to floating - point echo «$ TotalRise / 254/12» bc - l

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Dams on the river have cut the flow of sediment to one - tenth of its normal levels, but this probably accounts for only a few millimeters per year of the overall subsidence, says Higgins.