Earth ID: 3825

Operation IceBridge 2011 Arctic Flight Paths and Change in Elevation Data over Greenland

Visualizations by Lori Perkins Released on March 28, 2011

With the aircraft resources of NASA's Airborne Sciences Program, Operation IceBridge is taking to the sky to ensure a sustained, critical watch over Earth's polar regions. Flight lines (black) are shown for the 2011 campaign over Arctic sea ice and Greenland's land ice. Many flights target outlet glaciers along the coast where NASA's Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) shows significant thinning. Blue and purple colors, respectively, indicate moderate to large thinning. Gray and yellow, respectively, indicate slight to moderate thickening. Since its launch in January 2003, the ICESat elevation satellite has been measuring the change in thickness of ice sheets. This image of Greenland shows the changes in elevation over the Greenland ice sheet between 2003 and 2006.

Visualization Credits

Lori Perkins (NASA/GSFC): Lead Animator
Cindy Starr (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Visualizer
Jefferson Beck (UMBC): Producer
Jay Zwally (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
Thorsten Markus (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
Lora Koenig (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
John Sonntag (EGG): Project Support
Kathryn Hansen (Wyle Information Systems): Writer

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio The Next Generation Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).

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Missions:
Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat)
Operation IceBridge

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