East Coast Zoom-down w/ Ice Data

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Greenland: East Coast Zoom-down with Ice Data

The largest decrease in ice elevation occurred on Greenland's east coast. Dark blue indicates the area of largest ice loss. This animation is match-moved to animation #585 and the reverse of #588.

Zoom-down to the east coast of Greenland showing changes in ice thickness from 1993/1994 to 1998/1999 as measured by the Airborne Topographic Mapper

Metadata

  • Sensor

    ATM/ATM

  • Animation ID

    586

  • Video ID

    SVS1999-0007

  • Start Timecode

    1:07:54:21

  • End Timecode

    1:08:49:06

  • Animator

    Alex Kekesi

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    1999/03/04

  • Scientist

    William Krabill (NASA/GSFC Wallops)

  • Citation

    W. Krabill, E. Frederick, S. Manizade, C. Martin, J. Sonntag, R. Swift, R. Thomas, W. Wright, and J. Yungel, Rapid Thinning of Parts of the Southern Greenland Ice Sheet, Science, 283, n5407, pp 1522-1524, March 5, 1999

  • Datasets

    Topography

  • Keywords

    GCMD--Location--Greenland, Ice, Laser Altimeter

  • DLESE Subject

    Cryology

  • Data Date

    1993/06-1993/07, 1994/05-1994/06, 1998/06-1998/07, 1999/05

  • Pao ID

    g99-016_earth

  • Story URL

    stories/greenland/index.html

  • Animation Type

    Regular