A 9-kilometre fibre-optic cable that captured the sounds of melting ice throughout a whole glacier may enhance how researchers measure ice loss
Environment
14 December 2022
Rhone glacier in Switzerland has been monitored by an optical fibre Tomas Bazant/Shutterstock
A fibre-optic cable recorded the sounds of a melting glacier within the Swiss Alps throughout its total size. This marks the primary time that researchers have been in a position to seize such sounds throughout a whole glacier.
“The truth that you’ll be able to simply spool out a fibre on the floor of a glacier and let it get snowed in after which use that as a sensor, that’s revolutionary,” says Brad Lipovsky on the College of Washington in Seattle.
Lipovsky and his colleagues …
