Sentence examples for monitoring this ice from inspiring English sources

"We began monitoring this ice when it was more than 100 miles away," Shell said.

The center said the satellites monitoring the ice were fooled by broad stretches of fresh water pooling atop ice floes, which can resemble open sea lanes.

"The iceberg is one of the largest recorded and its future progress is difficult to predict," said Adrian Luckman, professor at Swansea University and lead investigator of Project MIDAS, which has been monitoring the ice shelf for years.

How unusual is this?Monitoring sea ice is a fairly recent activity.

From the air, scientists can monitor the ice surface to keep track of accumulating meltwater under the glaciers.

NASA will finish its year of space exploration by launching a small flurry of satellite missions to monitor the ice and sea winds of Earth and to look at the bubble of hot gas that surrounds the Milky Way.

There has been a 30percentt increase in the melting of the Greenland ice sheet between 1979 and 2007, and in 2007, the melt was 10percentt bigger than in any previous year, said Konrad Steffen, director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado, which monitors the ice.

An army of snowploughs and maintenance engineers work 24 hours a day to ensure the ice is in tip top shape while the NCC's Ice Safety Committee monitors the ice on an hourly basis.

"We're losing our capability to monitor the ice," says Eric Rignot, a scientist with the University of California, Irvine, and JPL and lead author on the study.

A satellite that monitors the ice malfunctioned, forcing the center to suspend the service.

Scientists were shocked in September 2007 when the extent of sea ice over the Arctic Ocean plummeted to the lowest level ever recorded since satellites have monitored the ice.