LAWRENCE – Kansas University researchers at KU’s Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets are using sophisticated radars to map conditions below some of the most important glaciers on the planet. The radars are providing important new details about what’s below the ice in key areas of Greenland and Antarctica, said Prasad Gogineni, director of KU’s ice center. Radar data on Jakobshavn Glacier in west Greenland and Byrd Glacier in east Antarctica is rewriting forecasts about ocean sea levels and the impact of climate change and faster glacier melting, he said. The findings are the lead article in the latest issue of “The Journal of Glaciology,” the world’s leading publication on the study of ice and glaciers.
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