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Exploration glaciology: radar and Antarctic ice

H D Pritchard and R G Bingham

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The Antarctic ice sheets hold a huge reservoir of ice in a dynamic cycle fed by falling snow and drained by glaciers and ice streams. In order to predict future changes to sea level, it is vital to measure the ice sheet volume, to monitor changes in glacier flow and thickness, and to attempt to reconstruct the history of ice sheet behaviour. Radar allows us to do all of these things. This paper explains how, and presents some of the important results in this field.


PACS

92.40.Vq Glaciers

01.40.-d Education

84.40.Xb Telemetry: remote control, remote sensing; radar

93.85.-q Instruments and techniques for geophysical research: Exploration geophysics

Subjects

Electronics and devices

Instrumentation and measurement

Environmental and Earth science

Education and communication

Dates

Issue 5 (September 2007)

Received 3 July 2007



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