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Greenland: Multiple Flight Paths Showing Ice Change

This animation shows all the strips of data collected by the aircraft-mounted laser altimeter flying over Greenland. Match-moved to animations #584 and #582.

Animation of flight paths showing ice thickness changes as measured by the Airborne Topographic Mapper    Animation of flight paths showing ice thickness changes as measured by the Airborne Topographic Mapper
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Flight paths showing ice thickness changes as measured by the Airborne Topographic Mapper    Flight paths showing ice thickness changes as measured by the Airborne Topographic Mapper

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Animation Number:583
Animator:Alex Kekesi (Lead)
Studio:SVS
Completed:1999-03-04
Scientists:Bob Bindschadler (NASA/GSFC)
 William Krabill (NASA/GSFC Wallops)
Instrument:Airborne Topographic Mapper
Data Collected:1993/06-1993/07, 1994/05-1994/06, 1998/06-1998/07, 1999/05
Series:Greenland
Video:SVS1999-0007 *
Goddard TV Tape:G1999-016
Keywords:
DLESE >> Cryology
SVS >> Ice
SVS >> Laser Altimeter
SVS >> Path
GCMD >> Location >> Greenland
More Information on this topic available at:
stories/greenland/index.html
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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