Sentences with phrase «total area of oceans»

What I DO know is that based on the total area of the oceans that a millimeter of sea level represents about 360 km ^ 3 of water.

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The total volume of rain is easier to calculate when a storm remains over a fixed area, but it much harder to suss out when hurricanes remain mobile and dump water over a wide swath of land and ocean.

Since The Bahamas is comprised of 700 individual islands and cays with a total land area of about 5,400 square miles scattered across 100,000 square miles of ocean, it is natural that fish and seafood are very important in the cuisine.

Total sea ice cover on the Arctic Ocean peaked on March 7, satellite observations show, reaching a total area of 14.42 million square kilomeTotal sea ice cover on the Arctic Ocean peaked on March 7, satellite observations show, reaching a total area of 14.42 million square kilometotal area of 14.42 million square kilometers.

The area covered by all the green leaves on Earth is equal to, on average, 32 percent of Earth's total surface area — oceans, lands and permanent ice sheets combined.

But the various bodies of water that make up this total ocean area have their own unique characteristics and range in size from the sprawling Pacific to the self - contained Mediterranean.

Coastal habitats cover less than 20 % of the total ocean area, but account for approximately half of the total carbon sequestered in ocean sediments.

The 652 - acre resort will occupy less than one - third of the island's total area, and will be located on the northern side of the island directly on the coastline of the Indian Ocean.

Total 1 VIP room and 8 Deluxe rooms), Golden Lounge (Indoor dining area and can be turn into magnificent meeting room with Indian Ocean within the vicinity with the capacity of 500 persons), Beach Café (Planned to be the only outlets that serve breakfast and a superb delicious Pizza, capacity 55 persons), and Mediterranean Restaurant (A fine dining service experience serve mediterranian food, capacity 75 persons).

The sprawling suite, which measures 90 square meters, comes with an amazing panoramic view of the ocean from all sections of the room which comprises of five areas in total.

Featuring spectacular ocean views from its lush property, along with exquisite living areas both indoors and out, this four - bedroom luxury vacation rental provides families, groups of friends, and destination wedding guests total privacy and comfort just steps from Velzyland Beach.

The Resort has a combined total of 13 Ocean Front and Beach Area Suites featuring private plunge pools, and 19 Beach Area and Ocean Front Casita Guest Rooms.

Paul D... As a part - time alarmist I would answer that with a little bit of extrapolation added to some warnings of climate scientists I guess the worst case scenario at least includes the total collapse of the WAIS, creating tsunamis at least all over the Pacific rim, the subsequent sea level rise of c. 7m will destroy most of the remaining harbours, communication centers near coasts, next up would be the melting of the collapsed ice in the southern ocean altering the climate of the entire southern hemisphere, making it near - impossible to guess what areas are good for similar agriculture as before, leading to massive movements of people.

Combined with a large decline in MY ice coverage over this short record, there is a reversal in the volumetric and areal contributions of the two ice types to the total volume and area of the Arctic Ocean ice cover.

Starting dates of 1966 — 82 have negative trends for the Antarctic land - only grid points with mixed results for ocean - only and total area.

Having said that, it is a really small effect — if the entire Arctic summer sea ice pack melted (average thickness 2 metres, density ~ 920 kg / m3, area 3 × 10 ^ 6 km ^ 2 (0.8 % total ocean area) = > a 4.5 cm rise instantly which implies a global sea level rise of 0.36 mm.

The oceans as a whole are warming — but in Antarctica, this warming has a counter-intuitive effect: thanks to the melt water, the total area of reflective sea ice is stable, or getting larger.

But the various bodies of water that make up this total ocean area have their own unique characteristics and range in size from the sprawling Pacific to the self - contained Mediterranean.

Although the Southern Ocean occupies only 20 % of total ocean area, it absorbs three - quarters of the heat taken into the oceans, and approx half of the CO2 http://bit.ly/2fOcean occupies only 20 % of total ocean area, it absorbs three - quarters of the heat taken into the oceans, and approx half of the CO2 http://bit.ly/2focean area, it absorbs three - quarters of the heat taken into the oceans, and approx half of the CO2 http://bit.ly/2f4Odla

And on 13 February the total area of frozen ocean in the two hemispheres was at its lowest: 16.21 million square kilometres, which is about 2m sq km less than the average global minimum for 1981 to 2010.

All of these characteristics (except for the ocean temperature) have been used in SAR and TAR IPCC (Houghton et al. 1996; 2001) reports for model - data inter-comparison: we considered as tolerable the following intervals for the annual means of the following climate characteristics which encompass corresponding empirical estimates: global SAT 13.1 — 14.1 °C (Jones et al. 1999); area of sea ice in the Northern Hemisphere 6 — 14 mil km2 and in the Southern Hemisphere 6 — 18 mil km2 (Cavalieri et al. 2003); total precipitation rate 2.45 — 3.05 mm / day (Legates 1995); maximum Atlantic northward heat transport 0.5 — 1.5 PW (Ganachaud and Wunsch 2003); maximum of North Atlantic meridional overturning stream function 15 — 25 Sv (Talley et al. 2003), volume averaged ocean temperature 3 — 5 °C (Levitus 1982).

What counts in producing the greenhouse effect on Venus are the differences to the Earth, such as the lack of oceans on Venus (Oceans cover 71 % of Earth's surface area), and the much higher total atmospheric preoceans on Venus (Oceans cover 71 % of Earth's surface area), and the much higher total atmospheric preOceans cover 71 % of Earth's surface area), and the much higher total atmospheric pressure.

The Larson shelf is one small area of the total Antarctic circle, apeninsula which is receiving winds from the ocean currents toasisst in this melting process.

Of course you may then multiply by the area of the ocean to get something like 3GJ in totaOf course you may then multiply by the area of the ocean to get something like 3GJ in totaof the ocean to get something like 3GJ in total.

Various areas of the ocean at different times of the year absorb, as other areas desorb, to a total of almost 20 times man's CO2 output.

The integration over the time of (5) will give the total gain or loss of energy through the given area of the ocean or land at the given period of time (as a day, season, yea, decade, and so on).

From the formula, we can see that the carbon footprint area is essentially calculated by dividing total anthropogenic carbon emissions remaining after accounting for ocean uptake (i.e., 72 % of net human emissions) by the rate at which existing forests sequester carbon.

Area of Sea Covered By Slick Much Larger Than Admitted SkyTruth has shared a satellite image (the one above), taken on the 27th, showing that a slick resulting from the Total rig's leak actually covered about 89 square kilometers of ocean.

Despite the total area of these three carbon sinks being only about 2 percent of the world ocean's surface area, they bury more than four times more carbon than the oceans (table 1).