Yet this, the first of three projected volumes, dwarfs the original for its detailed examination of producers.
The volume of the Gulf Stream dwarfs all rivers that empty into the Atlantic combined, which barely total 0.6 million cubic metres per second.
By multiplying the density of the newfound cool dwarfs by the volume of the galactic halo, Oppenheimer's team estimates that white dwarfs make up, by the most conservative estimate, at least 3% of the total galactic dark matter, they report online in Science on 23 March.
The volume of Gagosian's business dwarfs that of any and all comers.
And the numbers are dwarfed by the volume of requests Google receives for removal of copyrighted content.
Thermal expansion will continue, but in the coming decades its effect is likely to be dwarfed by the volume of water melting off the ice sheets.
The total surface-water potential of the tributary rivers is dwarfed by the volume discharged at the Danube mouth, which is more than five times as large.
As recently as the mid-90's, Aeroflex was still dependent on military sales; today those sales are dwarfed by the volume of business Aeroflex does with companies like Lucent that are building a global telecommunications infrastructure.
All of that is big data, too, even though it may be dwarfed by the volume of digital data that's now growing at an exponential rate.
The sheer volume of information sought is staggering; while search warrants and subpoenas for business records may encompass large volumes of paper documents or electronic data, the most expansive of such evidentiary demands are dwarfed by the volume of records obtained pursuant to the orders in question here.
The Environmental Protection Agency demanded this week that the company use a less toxic dispersant to clean up the spill, and independent scientists are releasing estimates of the spills volume that dwarf BP's numbers in terms of magnitude.
