Climate change study gives icebergs wi-fi
A team of scientists from the UK are to fit sat-nav censors to Greenland’s icecap in a bid to decipher how icebergs are formed. The researchers will fly helicopters over the country’s rapidly decreasing glaciers and drop off the low-power wi-fi transmitters so the path and shape of the ice can be tracked.
The forming of icebergs has traditionally be hard to measure as the nodes usually stop working or get misplaced as the ice crumbles away. These transceivers will however continue to work, even if part of the ice sheet they are on breaks away.
Glaciers in Greenland are thought to be particularly sensitive to climate change, especially those on the southeast edge of the ice sheet. Deep crevasses have however previously made it hard to fit the terrain with anything substantial enough to collate accurate data.
The work is being funded by the Natural Environ
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