Working on thinning ice: Custom-designed radar measures Antarctic ice with millimeter accuracy
Posted by Oceanography News -- ScienceDaily on 27 February, 2014
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A series of radars just deployed on Antarctica will give researchers their first ever day-by-day measurements of the health of one of the ice shelves that surround the frozen continent. The ice shelves around Antarctica can be up to 2 kilometres thick, but preliminary trials show the new radar system can detect changes of as little as a millimetre -- about the amount the Pine Island Glacier melts in just 30 minutes....