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Images & Animations
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Credit
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
Seasonal Ice Flow Backed Up
View of the Earths Magnetic Field
C-19 iceberg that calved off the Ross Ice shelf and its companion B-15 iceberg, which is anchored near the coast. The two large bergs may have disrupted normal ocean circulation that clears the Ross Sea of seasonal ice during the first months of austral summer. The ice remained in the sea long past previous thaw dates, and created trouble for ships trying to bring in supplies to McMurdo research station on Ross Island. But after months of stillness, in mid-January C-19 changed position dramatically over just a few days, pivoting northward from its eastern end. The effect was like opening a floodgate, and the sea ice trapped between C-19 and B-15 poured out into the Southern Ocean.
November 29, 2002
Metadata
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Sensor
Terra/MODIS -
Animation ID
2703 -
Video ID
SVS2003-0008 -
Start Timecode
01:00:35:00 -
End Timecode
01:00:58:03 -
Animator
Stuart A. Snodgrass -
Studio
SVS -
Writer
Rebecca E. Lindsey -
Visualization Date
2003/02/06 -
Scientist
Vincent Salomonson (NASA/GSFC) -
Keywords
C-19, Iceberg, GCMD--Location--Antarctica, Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctic Ice Sheet, Land Ice, Sea Ice -
DLESE Subject
Cryology -
Data Date
9/22/02, 10/07,08,09,11,22,23/02, 11/07,09,29/02, 12/01,31/02, 1/2,14,16,17,26,27,28,29/03, 2/2,3/03 -
Animation Type
Regular -
Other Credits
MODIS Rapid Response Team (http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov)