2005 Sea Ice over the Arctic and Antarctic derived from AMSR-E (WMS and Science On a Sphere)
Sea ice is frozen seawater floating on the surface of the ocean, typically averaging a few meters in thickness. Some sea ice is semi-permanent, persisting from year to year, and some is seasonal, melting and refreezing from season to season. This series shows the global sea ice throughout 2005, when the maximum extent occurred on March 7th and the minimum extent occurred on September 21st. Here global data from the AMSR-E instrument on the Aqua satellite is shown on a Cartesian grid. The false color in these images is derived from the daily AMSR-E 6.25 km 89 GHz brightness temperature while the sea ice extent is derived from the daily AMSR-E 12.5 km sea ice concentration.
This animation uses a 3-day running average of global daily AMSR-E Sea Ice and fades from day to day over four fames.
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Global daily AMSR-E Sea Ice for 2005 with one frame shown per day.
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Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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Visualizer
- Cindy Starr (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
Release date
This page was originally published on Sunday, January 6, 2008.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:55 PM EDT.
Datasets used in this visualization
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Daily L3 6.25 km 89 GHz Brightness Temperature (Tb) [Aqua: AMSR-E]
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Sea Ice Concentration (Daily L3 12.5km Tb, Sea Ice Concentration, and Snow Depth) [Aqua: AMSR-E]
ID: 237
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