Sentence examples for much higher altitudes from inspiring English sources

Organisms sought at much higher altitudes (up to 30,000 metres [100,000 feet]) have been detected; they are few in number and are all propagules.

Glaciers at much higher altitudes - particularly in the Himalayas and Alaska, where it was colder and global warming could increase snowfall - could grow in the short term and were likely to last "centuries", said Haeberli.

Kavtaradze said the rebels have shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles with "a firing range of only 3,000 to 4,000 meters" — about 10,000 to 13,000 feet — and that passenger jets fly at much higher altitudes.

The Ukrainian authorities were condemned for keeping the airspace over eastern Ukraine open, despite evidence that planes had started to be shot down at much higher altitudes than before – in other words that there had been a change in the combatants' capability.

The antineutrons escape the atmosphere and then decay into antiprotons at much higher altitudes.

Planetary waves cannot propagate directly to much higher altitudes, but the stratosphere and mesosphere are closely connected via circulation and by GWs and tides.

And jetliners headed to nearby Johnstown airport, where Mr. Peterson used to work refueling planes, generally approached at a much higher altitude, he said.

Any aircraft eight miles from its destination should have been on a final descent trajectory at a much higher altitude than 200 feet.

It rose to a much higher altitude and rapidly traversed the field before stopping to hover over the treeline across from us.

If an explosive decompression had been caused by a bomb that was planted on board, the plane would likely have disintegrated at a much higher altitude; as it was, it was tracked until it was relatively low.

They are wintered in bands, or flocks, of from 1,000 to 4,000 head at lower altitudes, and are moved in bands ranging from 1,000 to 1,500 head to summer range at much higher altitude, sometimes 300 miles (480 kilometres) from their winter quarters.