Sentences with phrase «radar studies at»

Not exact matches

And yet it's remarkable that we find such similar features on both worlds,» said Alex Hayes, a Cassini radar team associate at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, and a co-author of the study.

Although Mercury's daytime temperatures exceed 800 degrees Fahrenheit, radar studies indicate that the planet has vast deposits of ice within the perpetually dark, frigid craters at its poles.

«IceBridge surveyed previously unexplored parts of the Greenland Ice Sheet and did it using state - of - the - art CReSIS radars,» said study co-author Mark Fahnestock, an IceBridge science team member and glaciologist from the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF - GI).

The study, conducted at the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) at the University of Cambridge, used airborne radar measurements to reveal the lakes underneath the ice sheet.

«Studies conducted at the Universities of Guelph, Waterloo, and Western Ontario have demonstrated that deregulation has had an impact on the demographics of their enrolment,» according to Joel Duff, the Ontario chairperson of the CFS, such that «students from lower - income backgrounds have almost dropped off the radar screen.»

There is an urgent need for such climate study projects in temperate regions across the world, says Eric Rignot, principal scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Radar Science and Engineering Section.

Such radio traffic could be readily apparent On the earth, for example, a new radar system employed with the telescope at the Arecibo Observatory for planetary studies emits a narrow - bandwidth signal that, if it were detected from another star, would be between a million and 10 billion times brighter than the sun at the same frequency.

Detection of the falling meteor by Doppler weather radar allowed for rapid recovery so that scientists could study for the first time a primitive meteorite with little exposure to the elements, providing the most pristine look yet at the surface of primitive asteroids.

Flying under the accounting radar Derek Scissors, a research fellow in the Asian Studies Center at the Heritage Foundation, questioned whether looking at the past decades is a useful comparison, particularly for hydro development, since industrialized countries like the United States built their dams decades ago.

Now only visible with satellite radar (see an image), the channels flowed intermittently from present - day Libya and Chad to the Mediterranean Sea, says Anne Osborne, a geochemist at the University of Bristol, UK, who led the new study.

The P - 3 Orion, based at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, will carry IceBridge's most comprehensive instrument suite: a scanning laser altimeter that measures surface elevation, three types of radar systems to study ice layers and the bedrock underneath the ice sheet, a high - resolution camera to create color maps of polar ice, and infrared cameras to measure surface temperatures of sea and land ice.

Then a professor at Columbia University and a consultant for Bell Telephone Laboratories, Townes had transitioned from working on radar during World War II to using shorter wavelengths of light to study the energy states of molecules, a field called spectroscopy.

«We're the first to have developed a strategy using data assimilation to successfully forecast the evolution of magma overpressures beneath a volcano using combined ground deformation datasets measured by Global Navigation Satellite System (more commonly known as GPS) and satellite radar data,» explains Mary Grace Bato, lead author of the study and a researcher at the Institut des Sciences de la Terre (ISTerre) in France.

«Radar studies of ice thickness and surface features at the mouths of ice streams D and E, Antarctica,» Antarctic Journal of the United States, XXVII (5) p. 47 - 49.

Years ago, I pushed the idea of developing a reality - TV show, «Extremities,» on science at the edge of what's possible, sort of Mythbusters with a rotating cast that'd include biologists climbing cliffs in Greenland to study nesting falcons, the team I joined on the sea ice near the North Pole and — certainly — scientists driving around Oswego, N.Y., with portable Doppler radars to plumb the innards of storms that produce that region's astounding lake - effect snow, one result of which is depicted in this photo (NOAA):

According to one of the studies, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, which used radar measurements from the European Space Agency's Sentinel - 1 satellite, Smith Glacier's «grounding line» — the boundary between the bedrock and the ocean — has been retreating at a rate of 1.24 miles per year since 1996.

The Merlin radar studies presented in the EIR are worthless, except for telling us in what season and at what time of day we can expect the highest number of casualties from collisions.

«A case study of microphysical structures and hydrometeor phase in convection using radar Doppler spectra at Darwin, Australia.»

People who study birds are now using radar to make maps that can forecast migration at night.

In the first step of the inclusion process, adolescents at increased risk for developing externalizing symptoms were oversampled, because of a specific focus of the RADAR study on delinquency development.