Sentences with phrase «than a millimeter per»

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On average, he found, plowed land erodes at slightly more than 1 millimeter per year, while new soil builds up at about 0.2 millimeter per year.

Parnell's team has been able to show that sea level rise on the East Coast has been much less than 1 millimeter (mm) per year for the entire period 0 AD to 1800 AD, and, since then, it's skyrocketed.

As a result, the annual layers averaged about 0.4 millimeters thick — wide enough for the researchers to get seven to eight samples per layer, which is slightly better than one measurement every two months.

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.

Deserts are typically defined by low average annual rainfall — usually 100 millimeters (less than 4 inches) of rain per year or less.

A further factor is the rising sea level due to global warming, an effect that now also totals more than three millimeters per year and is responsible for another 15 centimeters of submerged land.

Since the 19th century, sea level has shot up more than 2 millimeters per year on average, far faster than other periods of global temperature change.

All infants had fewer than 50 recent thymic emigrants (CD3 (+) CD45RA (+) CD62L (+)-RRB- per cubic millimeter (mm (3)-RRB- and all had some proliferative response to the mitogen phytohemagglutinin.

The powertrain is topped by a voltage - control unit that boosts and regulates the electricity created by the hydrogen fuel - cell stack, which is 33 - percent smaller than before thanks to cells that are 20 - percent thinner (down to a single millimeter per cell).

As per the schematics, the iPad 5 will measure 169.48 millimeters wide, that's over 15 millimeters thinner than the current iPad.

That's faster than my typical 69 words per minute, and I attribute the uptick to the hybrid's bouncy and pleasant - to - click keys, which give good tactile feedback even though they have a shallow 1.3 millimeters of travel and require a modest 55 grams of force to actuate.

According to [Moelg and Hardy, 2004], if air temperature were 1 degree C colder than at present, the potential ablation would be reduced by 14.2 millimeters per month (liquid water equivalent).

Mediterranean sea levels are rising about 1.2 millimeters per year, or less than 5 inches per century.

-LSB-...] Ivy League geologist Dr. Robert Giegengack of the University of Pennsylvania, explains that sea level is only rising up 1.8 millimeters per year (0.07 inches)-- less than the thickness of one nickel.

That increase in ice translates to about a quarter of a millimeter per year less sea level rise than was previously predicted, says lead author Jay Zwally, chief cryospheric scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.

Many of the mechanisms are like that — the tides, the direct inductive heating, the heating caused by the days influx of falling meteorites — which incidentally is far greater than the rate of heat loss through outgassing, as meteoric dust and matter infalls at an average rate of at least millimeters per decade, from my own direct measurements — they have «impressively» large amounts of annual energy associated with them, right up to where you divide by the surface area of the earth and the number of seconds in a year.

About 40 percent of the world's subtropics and tropics could experience an increase in consecutive dry days (the annual number of consecutive days in which precipitation is less than one millimeter per day).

Since 1993, sea level has increased an average of 3.4 millimeters per year — more than twice as fast as the rate over the first 9 decades of the 20th century.

The coastlines of Scotland and Ireland have seen the largest increases, with the average height of winter waves more than 10 millimeters (more than 0.4 inches) per year higher than in 1948.

«Global sea level is projected to rise during the 21st century at a greater rate than during 1961 to 2003,» the IPCC report suggests, saying that the rate will be at 4 millimeters (0.15 inches) per year.

For example, the melting of the Greenland ice sheet broke previous records in 2002, 2005, and 2007, and seasonal melting from 1996 to 2007 was above average compared with the 1973 - 2007 period.10, 11 The melting of the Greenland ice sheet contributed around 0.02 inch (0.6 millimeter) to global sea - level rise in 2005 — more than double the 1996 contribution.4 From 1993 to 2003 the average rate of sea - level rise increased to about 0.12 inches (3.1 millimeters) per year.12 That means that in 2005 Greenland could have contributed 19 percent of the average annual global sea level rise rate.

However, from the late 19th century, sea level rise has averaged more than two millimeters per year.

Since the late 19th century, sea level has risen by more than 2 millimeters per year on average, the steepest rate for more than 2,100 years.

But in any case, the loss of Thwaites Glacier appears inevitable, Joughin said: «All of our simulations show it will retreat at less than a millimeter of sea level rise per year for a couple of hundred years, and then, boom, it just starts to really go.»

Just for comparison, William M. Connolley has roughly mapped Antarctic precipitation, and most (more than half) gets over 50 millimeters (water equivalent) per year.

This is higher than all previously published estimates, and it represents a change of about 0.4 millimeters -LRB-.016 inches) per year to global sea level rise.