Studying Arctic glaciers with airborne radar: UArizona project attracts $30M from NASA

June 10, 2024
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Airplane in snow field

Ski-equipped deHavilland Otter aircraft on Bagley Icefield, Alaska, during NASA’s Operation IceBridge, a previous airborne program. Snow4Flow will use similar aircraft instrumented with multiple radars and a scanning laser altimeter to map snow depth and ice thickness over many glaciers and ice fields including this one, which is the largest ice mass outside of Antarctica and Greenland.

Jack Holt

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