Sentence examples for land surface area from inspiring English sources

Only 25% of Earth's land surface area has response times of less than 100 yr (herein called 'human timescale').

Then there's Trantor, the world completely covered in metal because its 75m square miles of land surface area must bear 40 billion people.

Deserts make up ~33% of the global land surface area and climate models project increasing drought and desert extent with elevated CO2 CO2CO2trations35,36,37.

Just over half China's population (54%) live in urban areas, which represent just 2% of the total geographic footprint of the nation, with largely unpopulated regions making up 39% of the total land surface area.

This is marginally higher than its contribution to global water discharge ~ 1.3% and much higher than (more than three-fold) its contribution to world land surface area.

The taiga, which is also known as the boreal (meaning northern) forest region, occupies about 17 percent of Earth's land surface area in a circumpolar belt of the far Northern Hemisphere.

Karger, D. N. et al. Climatologies at high resolution for the Earth's land surface areas.

Temperatures are projected to rise by up to 5.8 C this century, 10 times the increase of 0.6 C in the last century, and by 40% more than this in some northern land surface areas.

The heating systems are dimensioned to supply the projected 2030 heat loads for two different land surface areas (extensive and compact).

In the southern sector of the mountains, we see evidence that an efficient glacial buzzsaw has acted to impose constraints upon topography, limiting peak altitudes, and concentrating land-surface area (hypsometric maxima) close to palaeo-ELAs.

By contrast, in the northern sector of the mountains, a number of peaks rise high above the surrounding topography, and land-surface area is concentrated well below palaeo-ELAs.