Earth  ID: 586

Greenland: East Coast Zoom-down With Ice Data

Visualizations by Alex Kekesi Released on March 4, 1999
The largest decrease in ice elevation occurred on Greenland's east coast. Dark blue indicates the area of largest ice loss. This animation is match-moved to animation #585 and the reverse of #588.
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Zoom-down to the east coast of Greenland showing changes in ice thickness from 1993-1994 to 1998-1999 as measured by the Airborne Topographic Mapper
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Colorbar for ice change data
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Video slate image reads, "Greenland Ice Changes (GIC 7)
Zoom down to Greenland's east coast centering on area where laser altimeter data shows the largest decrease in ice elevation over the past year. (Blue indicates elevation decreases, where orange/red indicate elevation increases.)".
 

Alternate Version

Greenland: East Coast Zoom-down without Ice Data

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http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/stories/greenland/index.html

Visualization Credits

Alex Kekesi (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Lead Animator
William Krabill (NASA/GSFC Wallops): Scientist
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Science Paper:
W. Krabill, E. Frederick, S. Manizade, C. Martin, J. Sonntag, R. Swift, R. Thomas, W. Wright, and J. Yungel, Rapid Thinning of Parts of the Southern Greenland Ice Sheet, Science, 283, n5407, pp 1522-1524, March 5, 1999

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Data Used:
Airborne Topographic Mapper
1993/06-1993/07, 1994/05-1994/06, 1998/06-1998/07, 1999/05
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This item is part of this series:
Greenland

Goddard TV Tape:
G1999-016

Keywords:
DLESE >> Cryology
SVS >> Ice
SVS >> Laser Altimeter
GCMD >> Location >> Greenland
NASA Science >> Earth

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0