Sentences with phrase «track changes in the mass»

Traditional field methods are combined with remote sensing techniques to track changes in mass, geometry and the flow behaviour of the two glaciers.

Not exact matches

By separating the different atomic masses («isotopes») of the element boron in the foraminifera shells, they tracked how the pH of seawater changed during the PETM.

So, tracking changes in the magnetic field can reveal how the superheated, swirling mass of molten iron in the outer core behaves.

This spring, NASA and the German Research Centre for Geosciences are scheduled to launch the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow - On (GRACE - FO) mission, twin satellites that will continue the original GRACE mission's legacy of tracking fluctuations in Earth's gravity field in order to detect changes in mass, including the mass of ice sheets and aquifers.

Once a mass has been properly identified, it is important to keep track of any changes in size, color, shape or firmness.

But Veron has described in detail how modern climate change is on track to change the ocean so drastically that corals and the reefs they build will be driven to extinction faster than in any previous mass extinction event.