Sentences with phrase «glacier thickness data»

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Scientists have long suspected Greenland's melting may be accelerated by the ocean (SN Online: 7/6/11), but needed data on fjord depth and glacier thickness to prove it.

Millan, a UCI graduate student researcher in Earth system science, and his colleagues analyzed 20 major outlet glaciers in southeast Greenland using high - resolution airborne gravity measurements and ice thickness data from NASA's Operation IceBridge mission; bathymetry information from NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland project; and results from the BedMachine version 3 computer model, developed at UCI.

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.

Analysis of the data showed that despite isolated cases where ice volume and thickness increased, none of the advancing glaciers have come close to the maximums achieved during the so - called «Little Ice Age» — a period of cooling between the sixteenth and the nineteenth century.

Less is known about southwest Greenland glaciers due to a lack of ice thickness data but the glaciers have accelerated there as well and are likely to be strongly out of balance despite thickening of the interior.

«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.»

That is the discovery made by scientists using data from CryoSat - 2, the European probe that has been measuring the thickness of Earth's ice sheets and glaciers since it was launched by [continue reading...]

Global mass balance data are transformed to sea - level equivalent by first multiplying the ice thickness (meters) lost to melting by the density of ice (about 900 kilograms per cubic meter), to obtain a water equivalent thickness, and then multiplying by the surface area of these «small» glaciers (about 760,000 square kilometers).