Sentences with phrase «measured sea ice thickness»

Using Envisat radar altimeter data, scientists from the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling at University College London (UCL) measured sea ice thickness over the Arctic from 2002 to 2008 and found that it had been fairly constant until the record loss of ice in the summer of 2007.

New way of measuring sea ice thickness could help assess how sea ice is affected by climate change

ICESat - 2 will add to our understanding of Arctic sea ice by measuring sea ice thickness from space, providing scientists more complete information about the volume of sea ice in the Arctic and Southern oceans.

In addition, Sentinel - 3B will as well measure sea ice thickness and significant wave heights, the latter will be assimilated into MET Norway's wave forecast model, also a contribution to the Copernicus Marine Services.

Not exact matches

Although CryoSat - 2 is designed to measure changes in the ice sheet elevation, these can be translated into horizontal motion at the grounding line using knowledge of the glacier and sea floor geometry and the Archimedes principle of buoyancy — which relates the thickness of floating ice to the height of its surface.

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.

In addition to the thickness of the snow cover on top of the sea ice, the buoys also measure the air temperature and air pressure.

At the moment, the only way to measure the thickness of sea ice is to drill hundreds of ice cores.

The motivation for this time series is to visualize the fact that the long term Arctic - wide loss of sea ice is not only happening in extent, which is well measured by satellites, but also in thickness, which isn't.

Ice volume, the product of sea ice area and thickness, is a measure for the total loss in sea ice and the total amount of energy involved in melting the iIce volume, the product of sea ice area and thickness, is a measure for the total loss in sea ice and the total amount of energy involved in melting the iice area and thickness, is a measure for the total loss in sea ice and the total amount of energy involved in melting the iice and the total amount of energy involved in melting the iceice.

Sea ice thickness is also being measured since 2004 and there has been a dramatic decrease in thickness according to NASA's press release, NASA Satellite Reveals Dramatic Arctic Ice Thinning dated July, 20ice thickness is also being measured since 2004 and there has been a dramatic decrease in thickness according to NASA's press release, NASA Satellite Reveals Dramatic Arctic Ice Thinning dated July, 20Ice Thinning dated July, 2009.

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.

Although CryoSat - 2 is designed to measure changes in the ice sheet elevation, these can be translated into horizontal motion at the grounding line using knowledge of the glacier and sea floor geometry and the Archimedes principle of buoyancy — which relates the thickness of floating ice to the height of its surface.

The scientists have measured average sea ice thickness to less than a meter in the area, and observed a late start of the freeze up period.

Peter Wadhams, President of the International Association on Sea Ice and Head of the Polar Ocean Physics Group / Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, says: «It is quite urgent that we recognize what is going on... the ice has been getting thinner over the last 40 years since I have been measuring it, and it has lost about one - half of its thickness... five years ago the shrinkage started to acceleraIce and Head of the Polar Ocean Physics Group / Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, says: «It is quite urgent that we recognize what is going on... the ice has been getting thinner over the last 40 years since I have been measuring it, and it has lost about one - half of its thickness... five years ago the shrinkage started to acceleraice has been getting thinner over the last 40 years since I have been measuring it, and it has lost about one - half of its thickness... five years ago the shrinkage started to accelerate.

Since it is the area that is measured this does not account the variation of sea ice thickness, which is needed to understand the total melt.

Poitou & Bréon do not explain why the ice pack volume would be relevant for the albedo; according to Haas (2005)[47] the changes of the thickness of the sea ice are small since they are correctly measured by an airborne radio apparatus, only over the Arctic.

We usually focus on summer because that's the most dramatic, but now the winter is starting to respond,» said Stroeve, who just returned from an Arctic expedition where she measured sea - ice thickness.

CryoSat was launched in 2010 to measure sea - ice thickness in the Arctic, but data from the Earth - observing satellite have also been exploited for other studies.

The NSIDC is also facing hot competition from the British Catlin Arctic Survey, which employs good old - fashioned Arctic explorers to do, we are told, what satellites can not, which is to measure the thickness of Arctic sea ice.

Sea ice area isn't the only way to measure the health of Arctic sea ice; the thickness of the sea ice has also suffered during the repeated incursions of warmSea ice area isn't the only way to measure the health of Arctic sea ice; the thickness of the sea ice has also suffered during the repeated incursions of warmsea ice; the thickness of the sea ice has also suffered during the repeated incursions of warmsea ice has also suffered during the repeated incursions of warmth.

NSIDC Scientist, Mark Serreze, drills into Arctic sea ice to measure its thickness.

Relating the age of Arctic sea ice to its thickness, as measured during NASA's ICESat and IceBridge campaigns.