Tracing Arctic meltdown

摘要

A fibre-optic cable-based technique will be used for the first time to monitor the effect the warming climate is having on permafrost in the Arctic region.rnVictor Bense, a lecturer in hydro-geology at the University of East Anglia, will lead a team of researchers that will install a 10km distributed temperature sensing (DTS) fibre-optic cable along the bank of a lake in northern Greenland in 2010.rnThe cable will measure the temperature changes along its length and help the research team determine if and where groundwater is seeping into the lake.