Sentences with phrase «take ice thickness»

Sea ice volume measurements, which take ice thickness into account, also hit a record low this year.

Sea ice volume measurements, which take ice thickness into account, also hit a record low this year.

Not exact matches

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.

Together with his AWI colleague Dr Stefan Hendricks, they evaluated the sea ice thickness measurements taken over the past five winters by the CyroSat - 2 satellite for their sea ice projection.

Khan and his colleagues combined GNET data with ice thickness measurements taken by four different satellites: the Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM), the Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat), and the Land, Vegetation and Ice Sensor (LVIS) from NASA; and the Environmental Satellite (ENVISAT) from the European Space Agenice thickness measurements taken by four different satellites: the Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM), the Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat), and the Land, Vegetation and Ice Sensor (LVIS) from NASA; and the Environmental Satellite (ENVISAT) from the European Space AgenIce, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat), and the Land, Vegetation and Ice Sensor (LVIS) from NASA; and the Environmental Satellite (ENVISAT) from the European Space AgenIce Sensor (LVIS) from NASA; and the Environmental Satellite (ENVISAT) from the European Space Agency.

One example offered in their paper is typical: On Oct 3, 2015, an NSF / NCAR research aircraft took off from southern Chile and flew south to measure the thickness of the Antarctic ice shelf.

The second Belgian Antarctic Research Expedition (Belare 2005) visited the base construction site in Utsteinen Nunatak to take additional topographic and ice thickness measurements and to refurbish the Automatic Weather Station...

Given that there this much work about sea ice which will take a while to resolve, there is another method of sensing its decline, another equation like the one giving ice thickness which has nothing to do with looking at the sea.

Instead, a rather casual article in the Independent showed the latest thickness data and that quoted Mark Serreze as saying that the area around the North Pole had 50/50 odds of being completely ice free this summer, has taken off across the media.

This thicker multiyear ice takes longer to melt back (both because of greater thickness and higher albedo than first - year ice) and so in conjunction with the weather it is responsible for more extensive ice in the late summer in this region.

Even if the subs up there took constant ice thickness measurements, it would still be an incomplete picture, a series of snap shot pictues of local conditions, which wouldn't sum to big picture measurement of total ice volume.

They took samples of the ice and measured its thickness, temperature and salinity.

So, prompted by reports of the heaviest sea ice conditions on the East Coast «in decades» and news that ice on the Great Lakes is, for mid-April, the worst it's been since records began, I took a close look at ice thickness charts for the Arctic.

* To the right is an example of a data table taken from the IceBridge MCoRDS L2 Ice Thickness data set

By comparing changes in ice thickness taken in 1999 to measurements made earlier in the decade, they concluded that the continent is giving up nearly 50 gigatons — that s 50 billion tons — of water per year, with greatest losses coming from the eastern coast.