Sentence examples for estimated the yield from inspiring English sources

Western experts estimated the yield as approximately one kiloton, much lower than the initial tests of the other nuclear powers.

South Korean officials and independent nuclear scientists estimated the yield — the amount of energy released by the weapon — to be 100 kilotons.

The South Korean defense ministry, which measured the detonation as an earthquake, estimated the yield at ten kilotons: not as big as the fifteen-kiloton bomb that devastated Hiroshima, in 1945, but about twice the size of North Korea's last nuclear test, in January.

Zeng et al. (2015) also estimated the yield advantage of improved maize that is 48 63% over local maize types.

A scientific paper later estimated the yield as 2.35 kilotons.

Analyst Martin Kalinowski at the University of Hamburg estimated the yield at being from 3 to 8 kilotons, still a very successful test when compared with the 2006 test.

Using this technology, they can estimate the yield for their entire vineyard operation with an error of only 5% or less.

As we near the end of the Obama administration, it has become possible to estimate the yield of the first black Presidency — and the dividends are far smaller than many had hoped.

Jeffrey Lewis, the director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Programme at the Monterrey Institute of International Studies, said that trying to estimate the yield of a nuclear blast from seismic readings left a wide margin for error.

The method thus estimates the yield stress σY, the work hardening exponent n, and the ratio of the yield stresses m.

In another important development, the C.I.A. revised its methodology for estimating the yield of Soviet underground nuclear tests based on seismic monitoring, an action that has undercut the Administration's charge of Soviet arms control violations.