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ICE SHEET MEASUREMENTS  

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  • Scientists have adopted three general approaches to ice sheet mass balance measurement: comparing outflow and melt to snowfall accumulation (the mass budget method), observing changes in glacier elevation (volume change or geodetic method), and detecting changes in the Earth’s gravity field over the ice sheet (gravimetric method). (en)

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  • 2015-12-10 17:15:20.0 [aaleman] Insert Concept add broader relation (ICE SHEET MEASUREMENTS [6d6a2b61-5d2c-4ec1-a164-34000f481588,158557] - ICE SHEETS [10b1872b-4a48-4360-a449-388e8988bca9,84415]);
  • 2015-12-10 17:15:47.0 [aaleman] Insert Concept add narrower relation (ICE SHEET MEASUREMENTS [6d6a2b61-5d2c-4ec1-a164-34000f481588,158557] - RIFTS [8a8fa93e-6424-46dd-ae97-d8afbac41b89,158561]);
  • 2017-03-15 13:10:43.0 [mgenazzi] Definition added insert Definition (id: null text: Scientists have adopted three general approaches to ice sheet mass balance measurement: comparing outflow and melt to snowfall accumulation (the mass budget method), observing changes in glacier elevation (volume change or geodetic method), and detecting changes in the Earth’s gravity field over the ice sheet (gravimetric method). language code: en);

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