Sentence examples for millimeter per year from inspiring English sources

The team found that 28 of the 33 deltas examined in the study have been sinking, on average, by 6.8 millimeter per year relative to sea level.

Recent estimates based solely on major dammed reservoirs suggest that if new dam construction is not maintained at the rates of the 1960s through 1980s, the rate of sea level rise could increase by about half a millimeter per year.

The modified equation as proposed by Kroeger et al. (2007) for calculating SGD is as follows: D_{text{G}} = PE_{text{T}} D_{text{S}}, (2)(all the units expressed in millimeter per year) where SGD (DG) is calculated from precipitation (P) after incorporating corrections for evapotranspiration (ET) and stream flow (DS).

All are composed of calcium carbonate, and because travertine in hot pools grows at a rate of 5 millimeters a day--compared with just 1 millimeter per year for coral--Yellowstone offers an ideal natural lab for observing mineralization in action, he says.

During the past 8 million years, rates of erosion have varied from less than 0.01 millimeter per year (in central and western Australia and in central North America, for example) to as much as 10 mm/yr (at sites in the Himalayas, Taiwan, and New Zealand).

The results revealed the city is naturally subsiding at a rate of about 0.03 to 0.04 inches (0.8 to 1 millimeter) per year, while human activities contribute sinking of about 0.08 to 0.39 inches (2 to 10 mm) per year.

At Big Bog, damaged peat rebounds at rates measurable only in millimeters per year.

Sea levels in other parts of the world, meanwhile, have been rising by an average of 2 to 3 millimeters per year due to the effects of climate change.

And even though the aquifer is huge, its recharge rate, at best, "is measured in millimeters per year," Dr. Aggarwal said — tiny compared with what is being pumped out.

Climate scientists have been able to close the sea level 'budget' by accounting for the various factors that are causing average global sea levels to rise at the measured rate of about 3.2 millimeters per year since 1992 (when satellite altimeters were launched into space to truly measure global sea level).

The corrected record now shows that sea level rose 2.6 millimeters to 2.9 millimeters per year since 1993, compared with prior estimates of 3.2 millimeters per year.