Note: This is the final article in a four-part interview series featuring the work of the 27 MIT Climate Grand Challenges finalist teams, which received a
MIT faculty from four teams in the “Using data and science to forecast climate-related risk” category of MIT’s Climate Grand Challenges competition lay out promising new technologies that can help scientists understand the Earth’s climate system on a finer scale than ever before.
Two finalist proposals for the MIT Climate Grand Challenges use a drone to monitor glaciers and ice sheets over long periods to build better models of sea-level rise to help with climate preparation and mitigation.
According to a new study performed by the researchers of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the rate of glacier ice flow seems to be highly sensitive to stress compared to what was calculated earlier. This overturns a decade-old equation that explains ice flow.
The rate of glacier ice flow is more sensitive to stress than previously calculated, according to a new study by MIT researchers that upends a decades’ old equation used to describe ice flow.