Sentences with phrase «airborne measurements»
«The combination of bottom - up soil emission measurements and top - down airborne measurements provide strong evidence for their emission assessments,» he says.
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NASA's long - running Operation IceBridge campaign last week began a series of airborne measurements of melt ponds on the surface of the Arctic sea ice cap.
The AAF provides airborne measurements required to answer research questions proposed by scientists from around the world.
Dr. Schmid is also the Manager of the DOE ARM Aerial Facility, which provides airborne measurements required to answer science questions proposed by the atmospheric research community.
The findings are based largely on unique data made possible by the GoAmazon research campaign, where scientists made ground - based and airborne measurements related to climate during 2014 - 2015.
By the help of the research aircraft Polar 5 of AWI the scientists conducted airborne measurements of gas concentrations in the air during two extensive flight campaigns in summer 2012 and 2013, respectively.
After I got my PhD in genetics from the Technical University of Munich, I found a project at the IPA where I was involved in airborne measurements.
The ARM Facility acquires airborne measurements during intensive field campaigns or long - term, regularly scheduled flights.
«Using improved airborne measurements of particle scattering and absorbing properties and chemical composition, we can better measure their size distribution as well.»
Researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks have been taking airborne measurements of glacier surface height using a laser altimeter, an instrument that bounces a laser off of the ice surface and measures how long it takes to return.
They use ground - penetrating radar, electrical resistance tomography, electromagnetic data, and LiDAR airborne measurements.
The second method combined different satellite data that measure the speed at which the ice sheets flow to the ocean, airborne measurements of the ice sheets» thickness and a regional climate model.
Near the well site, co-author Donald Blake of UC Irvine gathered samples of the leaking natural gas to determine its composition and compare to Conley's airborne measurements.
Thus our airborne measurements repeated and extended those made by a submarine.
Scientists will also go into the field to support the airborne measurements.
Now that the work has been done to combine these airborne measurements, Schroeder said he plans to expand this type analysis to other glaciers, a move that could improve scientists» understanding of the hidden ways climate change is affecting ice.
In October 2011, researchers flying in NASA's Operation IceBridge campaign made the first - ever detailed, airborne measurements of a major iceberg calving event while it was in progress.
Johannes Fürst, a researcher at the University of Erlangen - Nuremberg's Institute of Geography in Germany, and colleagues report in Nature Climate Change that they analysed years of ice thickness data from European Space Agency satellites and airborne measurements.