OMG Maps Greenland Sea Floor Depth
This image shows a region off the coast of northwest Greenland mapped as part of the fall 2015 campaign of NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) mission. This mission will test the connection between ocean warming and ice loss in Greenland. The data, shown here on a backdrop of Landsat-8 scenes from the same time period, will be used to understand the pathways by which warm water can reach glacier edges.
The color overlay on the water shows the depth of the sea floor, with deep blue colors representing depths of more than 1,000 meters. In the second image the color overlay on the land show the icesheet velocity from InSAR data (MEaSUREs Greenland Ice Sheet Velocity Map from InSAR Data)
Sea floor depth off the North West coast of Greenland.
Sea floor depth and Icesheet velocity
For More Information
See omg.jpl.nasa.gov
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Release date
This page was originally published on Tuesday, April 12, 2016.
This page was last updated on Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 12:32 AM EST.
Missions
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OMG Bathymetry MBES Level 2 Gridded Data [Cape Race (Ship): Multibeam Echo Sounder System (MBES)]
ID: 922This dataset can be found at: https://omg.jpl.nasa.gov/portal/browse/OMGEV-BTYSS/
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