Radio Echo Studies of Glaciers

• Main Author: Ewen Smith, Beverley Michael
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Cambridge 1971
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Norway; Baldwin; Antarc*; Antarctica; glacier; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/297933; https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.44987

There is a need for measurements of the thickness of glaciers, ice sheets, and ice shelves. Radio waves propagating in naturally occurring ice masses are attenuated by absorption in the conducting medium, by reflection from discontinuities, and by scattering from inhomogeneities. These scattering ce...