Sentences with phrase «collecting ice thickness data»

Wadhams has spent many years collecting ice thickness data from submarines passing below the arctic ocean.

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Morris uses the information she gathers on these trips to check the accuracy of data collected by a European satellite, Cryosat - 2, that tracks changes in the thickness of polar ice — information that tells scientists how quickly that ice is thawing.

For six weeks the researchers collected radar data to map changes in ice shelf thickness to understand the processes that contribute to melting at its base.

If everything goes according to plan, the radar will be turned on and will start to collect data on the thickness of glaciers and ice sheets just three days post-launch.

IceBridge data are collected from aircraft that fly over the ice cover carrying a suite of instruments, including altimeters that can directly measure ice thickness above the surface.

«IceBridge has collected so much data on elevation and thickness that we can now do analysis down to the individual glacier level and do it for the entire ice sheet,» said Michael Studinger, IceBridge project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. «We can now quantify contributions from the different processes that contribute to ice loss.»

This year, several airborne campaigns, including the German - Canadian - US collaborative effort PAMARCMIP (see Figure 4), the NASA IceBridge flights, and others have collected ice thickness or surface topography data in the North American Arctic.

This year, several airborne campaigns have collected ice thickness or surface topography data in the North American Arctic.