NOAA@NSIDC is pleased to announce the release of On - Ice Arctic
Sea Ice Thickness Measurements by Auger, Core, and Electromagnetic Induction, From the Fram Expedition Onward.
Together with his AWI colleague Dr Stefan Hendricks, they evaluated the sea
ice thickness measurements taken over the past five winters by the CyroSat - 2 satellite for their sea ice projection.
One of the key aspects of the expedition were large - scale sea
ice thickness measurements in the inner Arctic, in which researchers of the Alfred Wegener Institute and the University of Alberta cooperated closely.
Using ice thickness measurements collected by satellites from 1994 to 2012, glaciologist Fernando Paolo of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif., and colleagues analyzed how recent warming has impacted Antarctica's ice.
Khan and his colleagues combined GNET data
with ice thickness measurements taken by four different satellites: the Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM), the Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat), and the Land, Vegetation and Ice Sensor (LVIS) from NASA; and the Environmental Satellite (ENVISAT) from the European Space Agency.
«He has pioneered the use of AUVs (autonomous underwater vehicles) to measure under - ice topography and has worked with the Royal Navy since the 1970s in carrying out
ice thickness measurement work from Navy submarines on Arctic deployments.»
The threat of unnatural thinning introduced in the late 1990s was based on the
original ice thickness measurements taken by USS Sargo, a submarine that traversed under the ice in 1960.
A team of scientists used satellite observations and
ice thickness measurements gathered by NASA's Operation IceBridge to calculate the rate at which ice flows through Greenland's glaciers into the ocean.
During the past weeks, sea -
ice thickness measurements were the main topic of the TIFAX (Thick Ice Feeding Arctic Export) campaign, which involved research aircraft using laser scanners and a towed electromagnetic probe.
The second Belgian Antarctic Research Expedition (Belare 2005) visited the base construction site in Utsteinen Nunatak to take additional topographic and
ice thickness measurements and to refurbish the Automatic Weather Station (AWS).
The second Belgian Antarctic Research Expedition (Belare 2005) visited the base construction site in Utsteinen Nunatak to take additional topographic and
ice thickness measurements and to refurbish the Automatic Weather Station...