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Taking Scientific Measurements17 viewsA ruler measures the ice freeboard, or the height of the ice above the water. Ice draft, on the other hand, is the depth of the ice below the surface of the water. Notice the elongated crystals. Image credit: EWG.
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180 viewsMark Serreze measures snow depth during the 2011 Arctic Observing Network (Snownet) project
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164 viewsMark Serreze measures snow depthduring the 2011 Arctic Observing Network (Snownet) project in Alaska.
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151 viewsMark Serreze measures snow depth during the 2011 Arctic Observing Network (Snownet) project in Alaska.
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151 viewsMark Serreze measures snow depth during the 2011 Arctic Observing Network (Snownet) project in Alaska.
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Setting up the magna-probes148 viewsMatthew Sturm and Mark Serreze set up magna-probes to measure snow depth.
Image courtesy Andrew Slater, NSIDC.
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76 viewsNSIDC graduate student Allison Hurley sampling snow depth on the northern slope of Alaska during the 2012 SnowNet expedition. --Credit: NSIDC, Mark Serreze
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86 viewsKelley Elder of the U.S. Forest Service examining depthoar crystals on the northern slope of Alaska during the 2012 SnowNet expedition. --Credit: NSIDC, Mark Serreze
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88 viewsResearchers measure snow/firn grain size, as well as the depth of a snow pit.
Image Credit: Courtesy Ted Scambos and Rob Bauer, NSIDC
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