Sentences with phrase «mapping ice loss»
Many studies have focused on mapping ice loss from specific glaciers.
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Aerial mapping of Kilimanjaro's summit in February 2000 revealed a 33 % loss of ice since the last map in 1989 and an 82 % decline since 1912, says geologist Lonnie Thompson of Ohio State University's Byrd Polar Research Center in Columbus.
Glaciologists worldwide use these and other maps in modeling the rate of ice loss in Greenland and projecting future losses.
Through some very clever technical improvements, McMillan and his colleagues have produced the best maps of Antarctic ice - loss we have ever had.
Just thinking out loud (and I only know enough to be dangerous;), but with IR radiation mapping during winter, one might be able to infer a sub-surface temperature profile and compare that with mass loss and ice sheet thickness.
The maps suggests growth of parts of coastal East Antarctica, little change in the interior and ice mass loss in West Antarctica (basins 18 - 27 and 1) focused on the Amundsen Sea Coast region (basins 20 - 23).
A map of the glacier is then prepared contoured for the observed gain or loss of snow or ice in water equivalent units.
Maps pinpointing regions with the greatest basal melt, 48 highlighted here by red dots, coincide with the greatest loss of glacier ice along the Amundsen Sea hot spot.
Buoys provide key observations for mapping and attributing summer ice loss: drift, bottom vs. top melt, amount of snow accumulation, nature of ponds (even if anecdotal from web cams), and thickness of level ice.