收集彼得曼冰川的数据资料。
上个星期，彼得曼冰川失去了100平方英里(约259平方公里)的大冰块。
Last week, the Petermann glacier lost a 100 sq mile chunk of ice.
格陵兰岛西北海岸凯恩海湾(在彼得曼冰川正南)的鸟瞰图展示水面漂浮着一个小冰山。
An aerial view of Kane Basin (which is just south of Petermann glacier) on the north west coast of Greenland, showing a small iceberg floating in the water.
一部冰透雷达安装在连成一串的四艘橡皮船上，用来考察格陵兰岛彼得曼冰川的一个截面。
An ice penetrating radar is deployed from a string of four kayaks to survey a section of the Petermann glacier in Greenland.
彼得曼冰川曾在2001年和2008年产生了较小的浮冰岛(34平方英里和10平方英里)。
Petermann Glacier spawned smaller ice islands in 2001 (34 square miles) and 2008 (10 square miles).
明肖告诉通报会，在过去七年里，他收到的资金只够在彼得曼冰川附近测量三天海洋气温。
Muenchow told the briefing that over the last seven years he had only received funding to measure ocean temperatures near the Petermann Glacier for a total of three days.
这块厚达600英尺的巨型冰坨，于周四在距离北极以南620英里的地方脱离彼得曼冰川。
The huge chunk of ice, which is 600ft thick, broke off the Petermann Glacier, located about 620 miles south of the North Pole, on Thursday.
彼得曼冰川正南，两座冰川从对面注入一条狭窄的峡湾（彼得曼冰川本身没有出现在画面上）。
Two glaciers drain from opposite sides into a narrow fjord, just south of the Petermann glacier (Petermann itself is not pictured here).
本次冰川崩裂是1962年以来最大的一次，研究者估计彼得曼冰川的冰舌部分损失了近1/4的体积。
The "ice island" was the largest calving event on the glacier since 1962, and researchers estimated Petermann lost nearly a quarter of its floating ice tongue in one go.
这项工作将更多地揭示冰层厚度、基底融化速度的复杂特性，帮助科学家进一步了解彼得曼冰川前段解体的状况。
This will reveal more of the complex nature of the ice thickness, basal melt-rates and insight into the breakup at the front section of Petermann.
格陵兰的彼得曼冰川，摄于2009年。8月5日，卫星图像显示大约43英里长的浮动冰架约有4分之一已经脱落。
Greenland's Petermann Glacier, shown in 2009, lost about one-quarter of its 43-mile-long floating ice-shelf on Aug. 5, satellite imagery shows.
Muenchow说它曾预计过会从格林兰两大冰川之一的彼得曼崩解出一块冰块，因为彼得曼冰川的体积在过去七到八年的时间都一直在增大。
Muenchow said he had expected an ice chunk to break off from Petermann, one of the two largest remaining glaciers in Greenland, because it had been growing in size for seven or eight years.
Muenchow说它曾预计过会从格林兰两大冰川之一的彼得曼崩解出一块冰块，因为彼得曼冰川的体积在过去七到八年的时间都一直在增大。
Muenchow said he had expected an ice chunk to break off from Petermann, one of the two largest remaining glaciers in Greenland, because it had been growing in size for seven or eight years.
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