Christopher Allen

A Brief History Of Radio – Echo Sounding Of Ice

The application of radio-echo sounding (RES) to thickness measurements of glacial and sheet ice has been demonstrated since the early 1960s. The concept for this approach can be traced to 1933 at Admiral Byrd’s base, Little America, Antarctica where the first indication that snow and ice are transparent to high frequency radio signal was observed.

Christopher Allen, posted on September 26th, 2008
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