Who's Who - Polar Acronyms
Who's Who - Polar Acronyms
PARCA
Program for Regional Climate Assessment
PARCA is a NASA project formally initiated in 1995 by combining into one coordinated program various investigations associated with efforts, started in 1991, to assess whether airborne laser altimetry could be applied to measure ice-sheet thickness changes. It has the prime goal of measuring and understanding the mass balance of the Greenland ice sheet.