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Funder: NASA Cryospheric Sciences ... : AbstractIce‐penetrating radar observations are critical for projecting ice‐sheet contribution to sea‐level rise; however, these prognostic models have significant uncertainties due to an incomplete understanding of glacial subsurface processes. Existing radars...
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ftdatacite:10.17863/cam.73069 2024-02-27T08:34:18+00:00 Glaciological Monitoring Using the Sun as a Radio Source for Echo Detection ... Peters, ST Schroeder, DM Chu, W Castelletti, D Haynes, MS Christoffersen, P Romero-Wolf, A 2021 https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.73069 https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/325612 en eng American Geophysical Union (AGU) passive sounding radioglaciology radio-echo sounding cryosphere remote sensing article-journal ScholarlyArticle JournalArticle Article 2021 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.17863/cam.73069 2024-02-01T14:49:26Z Funder: NASA Cryospheric Sciences ... : AbstractIce‐penetrating radar observations are critical for projecting ice‐sheet contribution to sea‐level rise; however, these prognostic models have significant uncertainties due to an incomplete understanding of glacial subsurface processes. Existing radars that can characterize subsurface conditions are too resource‐intensive to simultaneously monitor ice sheets at both the necessary temporal—daily to multiannual—and spatial—tributary to continental—scales. Here, we investigate using an ambient radio source, instead of transmitting a signal, for glaciological monitoring. We demonstrate, for the first time, passive radio sounding using the Sun to accurately measure ice thickness on Store Glacier, Greenland. Passive radar sounding could provide low‐resource time‐series measurements of the cryosphere, enabling us to observe and understand evolving englacial and subglacial conditions across Greenland and Antarctica with unprecedented coverage and resolution. ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica glacier Greenland Ice Sheet DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Greenland |
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Funder: NASA Cryospheric Sciences ... : AbstractIce‐penetrating radar observations are critical for projecting ice‐sheet contribution to sea‐level rise; however, these prognostic models have significant uncertainties due to an incomplete understanding of glacial subsurface processes. Existing radars that can characterize subsurface conditions are too resource‐intensive to simultaneously monitor ice sheets at both the necessary temporal—daily to multiannual—and spatial—tributary to continental—scales. Here, we investigate using an ambient radio source, instead of transmitting a signal, for glaciological monitoring. We demonstrate, for the first time, passive radio sounding using the Sun to accurately measure ice thickness on Store Glacier, Greenland. Passive radar sounding could provide low‐resource time‐series measurements of the cryosphere, enabling us to observe and understand evolving englacial and subglacial conditions across Greenland and Antarctica with unprecedented coverage and resolution. ... |
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Peters, ST Schroeder, DM Chu, W Castelletti, D Haynes, MS Christoffersen, P Romero-Wolf, A |
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Peters, ST Schroeder, DM Chu, W Castelletti, D Haynes, MS Christoffersen, P Romero-Wolf, A |
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Glaciological Monitoring Using the Sun as a Radio Source for Echo Detection ... |
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Glaciological Monitoring Using the Sun as a Radio Source for Echo Detection ... |
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Glaciological Monitoring Using the Sun as a Radio Source for Echo Detection ... |
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Antarc* Antarctica glacier Greenland Ice Sheet |
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