Island Tour w/ Airplane Tracks

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Greenland: Top-down view of Island tour with airplane tracks

Top-down view of Greenland Island tour.This animation shows the ice concentration in Greenland. The ice has decreased significantly (~50 cm/year) along the coast and increased slightly in the center (+2 cm/year). Researchers view this as yet another serious warning sign of the threat of global warming.

Animation to show how a plane takes coastal measurements

Metadata

  • Sensor

    ATM/ATM

  • Animation ID

    1253

  • Video ID

    SVS2000-0018

  • Start Timecode

    1:00:35:00

  • End Timecode

    1:02:20:00

  • Animator

    Lori Perkins

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    2000/06/25

  • Scientist

    Dorothy Hall (NASA/GSFC)

  • Citation

    Krabill, W., Abdalati, W., Frederick, E., Manizade, S., Martin, C., Sonntag, J.,Swift, R., Thomas, R., Wright, W. and Yungel, J. 2000. Greenland ice sheet: High-elevation balance and peripheral thinning. Science 289: 428-430

  • Datasets

    Topography

  • Keywords

    Ice, GCMD--Location--Greenland, Laser Altimeter, glacier, coastal measurement

  • DLESE Subject

    Technology, Climatology, Cryology

  • Data Date

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

  • Story URL

    stories/greenland/index.html

  • Animation Type

    Regular