Radio-Echo Sounding of Mountain Glaciers

Mapping subglacial surfaces of temperate valley glaciers by two-pass migration of a radio-echo sounding survey

Radio Echo Sounding of the Greenland Inland Ice

Radio echo sounding has been used for a number of years in the exploration of polar ice such as the inland ice in Greenland and Antarc­ tica. By means of this technique a number of important glaciological and geophysical parameters may be deter­ mined. Examples are ice thickness, bedrock topography and structure, stratification patterns which are used for climate and flow patterns studies, and ...

Ice Cores , High - Mountain Glaciers , and Climate

The near-global retreat of high-mountain glaciers and the shrinkage of ice fields and ice caps and retreat of their associated outlet glaciers are perhaps the most visible evidence for 20th-century climate change and the recent increase in the globally averaged near-surface temperatures of the Earth’s surface. The loss of high-mountain glaciers—including ice fields, ice caps, and other glaciers...

Instrwnents and Methods Miniature high-power illlpulse transmitter for radio-echo sounding

We have developed a miniature high-power impulse transmitter for radio-echo sounding of glaciers. It features two synchronous second break-down pulse generators operating in a differential configuration. Specifications include bipolar 550 V pulses having rise times less than 2 ns, 512 Hz repetition rate, 180 mA at 10-14 V d.c. operating power, 5 mA standby current and maximum dimension of 12 cm...

Asynchronous Maximum Advances of Mountain and Continental Glaciers

The last maximum glacier advance in many mountain ranges appears to have predated the last maximum advance of the Wisconsinan continental ice sheets (-20,000 years B.P.). Published evidence from widely spaced localities in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Hawai'i suggests that some mountain glaciers extended farther during one or more stades early in the last glaciation, roughly 115,0...