Satellites track Antarctic ice loss over decades02 May 2017 Over two decades of observations by five
radar satellites show the acceleration of ice loss of 30 glaciers in Western Palmer Land in the southwest Antarctic Peninsula.
Not exact matches
InSAR uses a highly accurate
radar to measure the change in distance between the
satellite and ground surface, allowing the team to
show that injecting water into the wells at high pressure caused ground uplift near the shallower wells, the release said.
Radar flown by plane and dragged by snowmobile, as well as
satellite measurements
show how the ice cap is potentially turning into a Slip «N Slide for meltwater to rush to the Atlantic.
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Microwave
radars of the European Remote - Sensing
Satellites (ERS), radiometers of the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) and the dual - frequency altimeter TOPEX - POSEIDON have
shown their ability to improve the description and location of storms, especially in the case of tropical cyclones for which very few traditional observations exist.
The image below
shows atmospheric temperatures overlaid atop ground - based
radar and
satellite visible images, according to a JPL release.
Radar imagery from ESA's Sentinel - 1
satellite appears to
show the slick resulting from this spill, as it drifts away from the storage tanker and heads toward shore.
They used airborne
radar soundings and
satellite data to
show that beneath the glacial ice were valleys so deeply incised that some of them were hundreds of metres below sea level, at distances tens of kilometres from the sea.
The next
satellite /
radar animation
shows yet more anomalies of warm rain cells «turning over to snow» as moisture continues to migrate north.
This precipitation free wedge is also very visible in the in the
satellite /
radar animation just
shown above.
The first
satellite /
radar image below was taken at 11:30 am (ET), Monday,
shows a ribbon of warm air and moisture flowing in a northeasterly direction all the way from far west of Baja California, across Mexico and Texas (picking up even more warm moisture from the Gulf of Mexico).
The zone of moisture over New Mexico is of special interest in the
satellite /
radar loop
shown above.
The
satellite /
radar image below
shows the earlier mentioned microwave transmission source (southwest of Eureka) with much more clarity.