Lost: enough ice to cover California, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) 18 February 2009 and Bloomberg.com 20 Feb 2009. The extent of ice covering the Arctic Ocean in January and February 2009 was underestimated by about 500,000 square kilometres (193,000 square miles), an area about the size of California, due […]
Tag: remote sensing
Ice Melt Underestimate
Ice melt underestimate reported in Nature doi:10.1038/nature10847 published online 8 February 2012 and The Guardian 8 February 2012. Scientists in Boulder Colorado have used data from a NASA satellite project named GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) to calculate how much the world’s glaciers and ice caps are melting. They calculated that from January 2003 […]