News tagged with sheet
Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains enigma unraveled in East Antarctica
The birth of the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains buried beneath the vast East Antarctic Ice Sheet – a puzzle mystifying scientists since their first discovery in 1958 – is finally solved. The remarkably ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 16, 2011 |
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Antarctic rocks help predict sea levels
Ancient rocks embedded in the West Antarctic ice sheet could help University scientists improve sea level predictions.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 14, 2011 |
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Watching the birth of an iceberg
(PhysOrg.com) -- After discovering an emerging crack that cuts across the floating ice shelf of Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica, NASA's Operation IceBridge has flown a follow-up mission and made the first-ever ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 02, 2011 |
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Extreme melting on Greenland ice sheet, team reports
The Greenland ice sheet can experience extreme melting even when temperatures don't hit record highs, according to a new analysis by Dr. Marco Tedesco, assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 25, 2011 |
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CryoSat rocking and rolling
(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA’s ice satellite is rolling left and right in orbit to help it continue its precise measurements of the vast ice sheets that blanket Greenland and Antarctica.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 18, 2011 |
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NASA continues critical survey of Antarctica's changing ice
Scientists with NASA's Operation IceBridge airborne research campaign began the mission's third year of surveys this week over the changing ice of Antarctica.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 13, 2011 |
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Engineering team heads to Antarctica to explore hidden lake
Next week a British engineering team heads off to Antarctica for the first stage of an ambitious scientific mission to collect water and sediment samples from a lake buried beneath three kilometres of solid ice. This extraordinary ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 10, 2011 |
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NEEM ice core drilling in Greenland provides comprehensive new results
The drilling through the ice sheet at NEEM (77 N, 51V) was completed in August and now scientists can begin to review whether the drilling was a success. 14 nations participated in the scientific work at NEEM, ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 07, 2011 |
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Colored solar cells could make display screens more efficient
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new kind of screen pixel doubles as a solar cell and could boost the energy efficiency of cell phones and e-readers. The technology could also potentially be used in larger displays to make ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 07, 2011 |
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'Flying carpet': Princeton team's plastic sheet can hover above ground (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A thin sheet of plastic has been making headlines at Princeton as a magical flying carpet, after the publication of a paper describing experiments by the team with their prototype sheet of ...
Oct 01, 2011 |
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Scientists raise concerns regarding erroneous reporting of Greenland ice cover
Scientists from the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) have raised concerns regarding what they believe are erroneous claims of a 15% decrease in the permanent ice cover of Greenland in just 12 years.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 20, 2011 |
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Scientists develop new coral dating method, hint at future sea-level changes
New evidence of sea-level oscillations during a warm period that started about 125,000 years ago raises the possibility of a similar scenario if the planet continues its more recent warming trend, says a research team led ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 11, 2011 |
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Pics of Greenland glacier melt shocks expert
Breathtaking before-and-after pictures showing how fast a Greenland ice sheet has melted in just two years have shocked a climate change expert familiar with the glacier.
Sep 06, 2011 |
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eBay eyes investments in Japan and China: report
Online auction house eBay is on the look-out for investment targets in Japan and China, a report said Thursday, as it seeks to expand in fast-growing Asia.
Sep 01, 2011 |
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Ethane levels yield information about changes in greenhouse gas emissions
Recent data from NSF-funded research in both Greenland and Antarctica demonstrate that fossil-fuel related emissions of both methane and ethane, two of the most abundant hydrocarbons in the atmosphere, declined ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 15, 2011 |
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