Sentences with phrase «although sea surface heights»

Not exact matches

Although CryoSat - 2 is designed to measure changes in the ice sheet elevation, these can be translated into horizontal motion at the grounding line using knowledge of the glacier and sea floor geometry and the Archimedes principle of buoyancy — which relates the thickness of floating ice to the height of its surface.

Although CryoSat - 2 is designed to measure changes in the ice sheet elevation, these can be translated into horizontal motion at the grounding line using knowledge of the glacier and sea floor geometry and the Archimedes principle of buoyancy — which relates the thickness of floating ice to the height of its surface.

Although it does not cover the South Pole, the warming pattern evident in the MSU data (Fig. 3) is consistent increased atmospheric thickness from the surface to the mid troposphere and rising geopotential height over the continent and in the Weddell Sea sector.