Baffin Bay, Ellesmere Island (Northernmost Canada) and North Coast of Greenland

  • Credit

    Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

This series of MODIS images from April 8-29, 2002, shows winter sea ice--and the beginnings of spring thaw.in Baffin Bay between Greenland (right) and EllesmereIsland, Canada (top island at left). Warmer waters from the Labrador Sea to the south begin to encroach into the Bay as spring progresses, eventually freeing the Bay of its winter ice.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Terra/MODIS

  • Visualization Date

    2002-04-23