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How cables in glaciers could help forecast future sea level rise – MENAFN.COM

Fibre-optic cables usually make us think of ultra-fast internet – or maybe the irritation of new installation works digging up the pavement. But there are now such…

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(MENAFN – The Conversation) Fibre-optic cables usually make us think of ultra-fast internet or maybe the irritation of new installation works digging up the pavement. But there are now such cables snaking their way through the centre of the planet’s second largest body of ice, the Greenland ice sheet.
Fibre-optic technologies are allowing us to monitor the internal structure of glaciers in unprecedented levels of detail. , we show how fibre-optics are offering extraordinary new insight into how…

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