Sentences with phrase «sparse measurement network»

Not exact matches

In previous work, air measurements from planes and a sparse network of monitoring towers have revealed that the inventory - based numbers are coming in low — roughly 50 percent low.

To ascertain the annual balance of a glacier from a sparse network of observations is optimized by detailed mapping of mass balance across the glacier determined from a high - density measurement network during several years.

We compared the mass balance results from a dense network of measurements with variously sparse networks, to determine the error resulting from using increasingly sparse networks.

Particularly in the pre-satellite era (around 1979), data is relatively sparse and reliant on networks of in - situ measurements.