News tagged with ice thickness

NRL scientists optimize arctic sea ice data products

Scientists from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Marine Geosciences Division are assisting NASA, the US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) and the European Space Agency (ESA) ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Via research aircraft instead of dog sled

With dog food and a pack of huskies Dr. Veit Helm would not get far on his Antarctic expeditions. Instead, the geophysicist at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association conducts ...

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created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New CryoSat-2 satellite redraws Arctic sea-ice map

Scientists have produced the most extensive map of Arctic sea-ice thickness yet using just two months' worth of data from the European Space Agency's ice mission, CryoSat-2.

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created Jun 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Creatures not adapting to environmental changes in Antarctic, study finds

Organisms found in the Antarctic region are not quick to adapt to changes in the environment, new international research shows. The study, carried out by 200 scientists from 15 countries, is the culmination ...

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created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Satellites and submarines give the skinny on sea ice thickness

This summer, a group of scientists and students — as well as a Canadian senator, a writer, and a filmmaker — set out from Resolute Bay, Canada, on the icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent. They were headed through ...

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created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (7) | comments 1

British team trek to North Pole to measure sea ice

Three British explorers have set out on a 90-day skiing expedition to the North Pole, measuring sea ice thickness the whole way to find out exactly how fast it is disappearing, according to the Catlin Arctic ...

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created Mar 01, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (36) | comments 3

Research aircraft Polar 5 returned from spring measurements in the high Arctic

The research aircraft Polar 5 of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association returned to Bremerhaven from a six-week expedition in the high Arctic on May 6. Joint flights with aircraft ...

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created May 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0