Sentence examples for km now from inspiring English sources

It is shown in an example that mountain waves with horizontal wavelengths as short as ∼30 km now can be observed by AIRS, reflecting the superior horizontal resolution in these modern satellite instruments.

Average CO2 emissions are due to come down from 130g per km now to 95g per km in 2020, and plans are already being drawn up for even tougher limits in 2025, of perhaps 70g.

OBS observations after the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake showed that the 2011 earthquake changed the stress regime in the Pacific plate and that the tensional stress, which was previously limited to depths shallower than 20 km, now extends to depths of about 40 km (Obana et al. 2012).

Spread over an area of 1.5 sq km this adds only about 0.02C of non-existent warming to the global land surface air temperature series, but it adds about 0.2C of nonexistent warming to the series in the Southern Hemisphere, where there's a lot less land". JAXA ice extent up 295,781 square km, now 154,844 square km above the 2007 extent figure on the same date.

NZ began rifting from Gondwana c.82 Ma [ 46] but separation from eastern Australia of the (now mostly submerged) Zealandia continental fragment was not complete until formation of the Cato Trough near present New Caledonia c.52 Ma [ 47, 48], with a distance of c.1600 km now separating the NZ part of Zealandia from the Australian mainland.

The atoll, with a total land area of 0.2 square mile (0.4 square km), is now a bird sanctuary.

Approximately half of its total length of about 150 miles (240 km) is now an extension of Norris Reservoir, impounded by the dam.

With the ice cover down to 14.54m sq km, scientists now believe the Arctic is locked onto a course of continually shrinking sea ice – and that is before the 2016 melt season gets underway.

Surface rainfall estimates from radar, traditionally derived at scales of order 1 km, are now requested at grid lengths of 100 m to drive improvements in the outputs of these models.

The concept of Knowledge Management (KM) is now widely embraced in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry, and many strategies and tools have been (and are being) developed for its implementation in the industry.

During the American Civil War, Tallahassee was far removed from the significant battle areas and was the only capital of a Confederate state east of the Mississippi River not captured by Union forces, although there was an engagement (March 6 , 1865 at Natural Bridge, about 10 miles (16 km) southeast (now a state historic site) when a local militia repulsed a Union march on the city.