Sentence examples for ice height from inspiring English sources

The effect of the accreted ice height, H, on the aerodynamic coefficients is investigated.

Oscillations between glacial and interglacial climates controls ice height and distribution, which, in turn, modulates the locus and mode of erosion in the landscape.

A team led by hydrospheric scientist William Krabill of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia, used a laser altimeter to survey the ice height over southern Greenland by flying 400 meters above the massive ice cap.

The American spacecraft's laser altimeter first noted a drop in the ice-surface height associated with the slumping.

Erosion by things like wind and ice keeps the height of the Himalayas at nearly a steady state, Mr. Seeber said.

Radar can pass through foliage and clouds and be used for tasks like measuring the thickness of ice or the height of waves.

The Arctic or, rather, its sea ice is similarly expiring as the Earth warms up in response to more of another gas, carbon dioxide.The area of the Arctic Ocean covered by ice at the height of summer has been shrinking by 11% a decade for the past 35 years.

Think Jesse Owens winning gold medals as Hitler looked on; or the American hockey team's Miracle on Ice at the height of the Cold War; or Gabby Douglas, whose family overcame bankruptcy threats.

Far more of Earth's water was locked up as ice at the height of the last ice age than previously thought, and current climate change models may need to be adjusted to account for it, according to a new study.

Its primary instrument is the SAR Interferometric Radar Altimeter (SIRAL), which is designed to measure changes in the height of ice of less than 1 cm (0.4 inch) per year.

GLAS's main job was measuring the height of ice sheets, but the data that came back from forested areas contain a lot of information about the height of the canopy and the density of the vegetation there.