Sentences with phrase «ice samples for analysis»
MPL, launched in 1998, was to have landed less than 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) from the planet's south pole to collect soil and ice samples for analysis and to gauge meteorological conditions.
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Fecal samples can return to the clinic for analysis with the veterinarian who visits the animal, may be dropped off at the clinic by the owner in - person, or may be mailed in via overnight service to the clinic (on ice) with an indication that the package must be opened immediately.
«It potentially does,» admits Jones, but says that analyses using other methods — proxy temperature markers from ice core samples, for example — still show much the same temperature change over the past 1,000 years, backing up Mann's hockey stick.
The differing resolution problem for paleo series seems to me to be intractable however, given that the analysis of ice core samples and tree rings etc are more complex than simply improving the magnification of our telescopes as in the case of astronomy.
Uncertainties should decrease closer to near - current dates (e.g. from denser and more accurate sampling)-- but note that these products also employ different QC and analysis methods, rely to varying degrees on satellite data, on sea - ice data to constrain polar SST, and on bias adjustments for historical changes in measurement methods.