ESA Portal - New ice thickness map of the Arctic unveiled
ESA Portal - New ice thickness map of the Arctic unveiled : "However, to understand fully how climate change is affecting the fragile polar regions , there is a need to determine exactly how the thickness of the ice is changing. ESA's ice mission To answer this question, a group of scientists together with Prof . Duncan Wingham from University College London proposed the CryoSat mission to ESA in 1998. The loss of the original CryoSat satellite in 2005 as a result of a launch failure has unfortunately made this a longer than normal wait." Related articles Research aircraft Polar 5 returned from spring measurements in the high Arctic (eurekalert.org) "Obama launches new national policy to strengthen management of oceans" and related posts (taragana.com) Arctic reindeer moves closer to endangered listing (yubanet.com) Record loss of ozone over Arctic (yubanet.com) Satellite-based inventory and monitoring: snow and glaciers of the Hima...