minute of longitude造句

• Since Portland is east of San Francisco by 13 minutes of longitude.
• Anywhere else, a minute of longitude is shorter according to the cosine of the latitude.
• The grid map was composed of rectangles measuring 15 minutes of latitude by 30 minutes of longitude, an area of about.
• The geographical mile is the length of one minute of longitude along the Equator, about 1, 855.325 m on the WGS 84 ellipsoid.
• For example, a New York minute . . . er, a minute of longitude in New York is 1.4 km or 4, 600 feet.
• The resolution for SABAP1 was the quarter degree grid cell ( QDGC ), 15 minutes of latitude by 15 minutes of longitude, 27.4 km north-south and about 25 km east-west, an area of about 700 km?
• A geographical mile is defined to be the length of one minute of arc along the equator ( one equatorial minute of longitude ), so a degree of longitude along the equator is exactly 60 geographical miles, as there are 60 minutes in a degree.
• In SABAP2, the resolution is far higher : the unit of data collection is the pentad & ndash; five minutes of latitude by five minutes of longitude & ndash; i . e . squares with sides of roughly 9 km, one ninth the size of quarter degree grid cells.
• UTC, " atomic " time at Greenwich, is too inaccurate, differing by as much as 0.9 seconds from UT1, creating an error of of a minute of longitude at all latitudes and which is at the equator but less at higher latitudes, varying roughly by the cosine of the latitude.