Earth ID: 588

Greenland: East Coast Zoom-out With Ice Data

Visualizations by Alex Kekesi Released on March 4, 1999

Dark blue indicates large amounts of ice loss, and light blue indicates lesser amounts of ice loss. This animation is match-moved to animation #587.

Video slate image reads, "Greenland Ice Changes (GIC 9)
Reverse of GIC 7. Camera starts on the east coast of Greenland centering on the area of elevation decrease and flies up to show the continent."

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Visualization Credits

Alex Kekesi (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Lead Animator
Bob Bindschadler (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
William Krabill (NASA/GSFC Wallops): Scientist

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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