Traditional estimates of Earth's ice caps and glaciers have been made using ground measurements from relatively few glaciers to infer what all the world's unmonitored glaciers were doing. (skepticalscience.com)
And Molnia noted a few glaciers that are advancing have significant calving activity — most notably, Hubbard Glacier, with growth fueled by a massive mountain catchment area. (scientificamerican.com)
The addition of Svalbard will allow the mission to collect data on sea ice and snow in a scarcely measured section of the Arctic Ocean and its surrounding seas, along with measurements of a few glaciers in the Svalbard archipelago. (sciencedaily.com)