Sentence examples for annual extent from inspiring English sources

Arctic sea ice usually grows over winter until it hits its maximum annual extent in March.

By 2050, the annual extent of forests burned is predicted to rise by 50 percent or more.

WWF forestry expert Alexander Bryukhanov said under-reporting meant that the annual extent of forest fires in the US and Canada are regularly double that in Russia, which has twice as much forest.

Although the 1992 2000 estimate indicates that a substantial amount of annual forest cover decrease occurred (~13,750 ha), it is still less than half the 2001 2006 average annual extent (34,909 ha).

The results suggest that while both stratification and nutrients play important roles in determining the annual extent of midsummer hypoxia, reducing nutrient inputs alone will substantially reduce the average extent.

As Suzanne Goldenberg reported in The Guardian yesterday, Arctic sea ice appears to have reached its annual minimum extent, at approximately 5.1 million square kilometers.

Since 1979, when scientists began using satellites to track the phenomenon, the annual minimum extent of the region's ice coverage has fallen by more than eleven per cent each decade.

It may be noted that the actual data for the Sea of Okhotsk show a fall in annual average extent (mn k m2) from 0.58 in 1979 to 0.37 in 1990.

It was August 12, about one month before the sea ice would reach its annual minimum extent after the summer melt, but a vast expanse of open ocean already separated Wrangel Island from the pack ice.

But most U.S. companies detail in their annual reports the extent to which a stock option expense plan, such as Coke is enacting, would have affected earnings.

Steadily warming conditions in the far north have seen the annual mean ice extent since 1979 - the beginning of continuous space-based observations - fall by about 4% per decade.