Sentences with phrase «ice thickness measurements taken»
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.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/
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.
Not exact matches
Researchers from Norway and China have collaborated on developing an autonomous buoy with instruments that can more precisely measure the optical properties of Arctic sea ice while also taking measurements of ice thickness and temperature.
Sea ice volume measurements, which take ice thickness into account, also hit a record low this year.
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...
Sea ice volume measurements, which take ice thickness into account, also hit a record low this year.
Even if the subs up there took constant ice thickness measurements, it would still be an incomplete picture, a series of snap shot pictues of local conditions, which wouldn't sum to big picture measurement of total ice volume.
By comparing changes in ice thickness taken in 1999 to measurements made earlier in the decade, they concluded that the continent is giving up nearly 50 gigatons — that s 50 billion tons — of water per year, with greatest losses coming from the eastern coast.