Sentences with phrase «in airborne measurements»

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The measurements suggest that for 200 days, all three swifts remained airborne while migrating to and wintering in Africa, implying that the birds can sleep on the wing (Nature Communications, DOI: 10.1038 / ncomms3554).

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.

In our flights, because of the difference in gravitational attraction associated with the presence of water instead of rock beneath the ice tongue, our airborne gravimeter was sufficiently sensitive to duplicate the Autosub measurements and to determine the shape of the cavity beyond the ridgIn our flights, because of the difference in gravitational attraction associated with the presence of water instead of rock beneath the ice tongue, our airborne gravimeter was sufficiently sensitive to duplicate the Autosub measurements and to determine the shape of the cavity beyond the ridgin gravitational attraction associated with the presence of water instead of rock beneath the ice tongue, our airborne gravimeter was sufficiently sensitive to duplicate the Autosub measurements and to determine the shape of the cavity beyond the ridge.

A new airborne Light Detection And Ranging (LIDAR) system will be built to enable future interdisciplinary ecological and environmental research involving optical measurements of fish, plankton, water turbidity, and related quantities in lakes and rivers.

Alexander is a scientist and project manager at JASCO Applied Sciences and has extensive experience in underwater and airborne acoustic modelling and measurement.

Data collection methods are standardized across sites and include in situ instrument measurements, field sampling, and airborne remote sensing.

Earlier this year, a number of research groups was able to coordinate thickness measurements (airborne, surface based and associated deployment of buoys) to help us better understand the ice thickness evolution in this sector of the Arctic.

The team, which Marc led and provided the logistical support for, deployed from Resolute to Nord Greenland before setting up a rustic field camp on the sea ice for six days, during which time we mechanically drilled the ice to measure thickness, measuring snow depth in a grid pattern along the flight lines as well as dragging instruments along the surface that produced the same measurements for comparison to the airborne data.

Assessment of fossil fuel carbon dioxide and other anthropogenic trace gas emissions from airborne measurements over Sacramento, California in spring 2009

In October 2011, researchers flying in NASA's Operation IceBridge campaign made the first - ever detailed, airborne measurements of a major iceberg calving event while it was in progresIn October 2011, researchers flying in NASA's Operation IceBridge campaign made the first - ever detailed, airborne measurements of a major iceberg calving event while it was in progresin NASA's Operation IceBridge campaign made the first - ever detailed, airborne measurements of a major iceberg calving event while it was in progresin progress.

Johannes Fürst, a researcher at the University of Erlangen - Nuremberg's Institute of Geography in Germany, and colleagues report in Nature Climate Change that they analysed years of ice thickness data from European Space Agency satellites and airborne measurements.

To date, the airborne in situ measurements of the cirrus PSD have contained large uncertainties due to errors in measuring small ice crystals (D ≲ 60 μm).

Long term changes in mass balance, which can verify the accuracy of the annual balance measurements can be made using geodetic methods, such as airborne surface profiling or surface remapping.

With respect to ongoing research, I wonder if a series of high - resolution measurements in the 53 - 57 GHz band from an airborne microwave spectrometer (vertical looking up, vertical looking down and horizontal) under measured conditions of temperature, pressure and humidity might allow improved deconvolution of the satellite data.