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New technology used to record Antarctic Ocean, ice temperatures
Description: A team of scientists spent two weeks on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica installing fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing equipment to conduct long-term monitoring of climate change effects on the ice pack and its potential for collapse. The equipment continually records temperatures for every meter of the ice shelf and to the ocean bottom 800 meters below the surface. [Source: Physorg.com]
URL: http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-12-technology-antarctic-ocean-ice-temperatures.html
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Source: Physorg.com
Publish Date: 12/20/2011
Reading Level: Basic
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