Sentence examples for average extent from inspiring English sources
The monthly average extent for May 2016 is more than 1m sq km below that observed in May 2012.
May's average extent was 680,000 sq km (224,000 sq miles) below the previous record for the month, set in 2004.
In Antarctica, the average extent of sea ice in November was 14.54m sq km (5.61m sq miles), which is 1.81m sq km (699,000 sq miles) below the 1981 to 2010 average.
This was just half of its average extent during the nineteen-eighties and nineties, and nearly twenty per cent less than its extent in 2007, the previous record-low year.
Arctic sea ice extent set another record low, with the average extent for May 2016 becoming the lowest extent for the month since satellite observations began, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center This record low may not come as a surprise, however, following a record low extent in January, February, and April 2016.
Still, the scientists, at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., said that the ice in the Arctic this summer was 33percentt below the average extent tracked since satellites started monitoring the region in 1979 and that the trend continued toward an ice-free Arctic Ocean within a few decades.
A correlation of SASA at the peptide level (calculated as an average of the SASA for the individual amino acids comprising the region) and the average extents of HDX for the corresponding peptide regions confirmed our assignment of model D as the best homology model of DHCC.
And: "Average ice extent in December was well below average and very close to that measured in 2007".
Scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Centre said on Monday that the sea ice cover attained an average maximum extent of 14.52m sq km (5.607m sq miles) on 24 March, the lowest winter maximum since records began in 1979.
A fresh analysis by scientists of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to be published Saturday in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, says sea-ice coverage of the Arctic Ocean will decline by more than 40percentt before the summer of 2050, compared with the average ice extent from 1979 to 1999.
