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Greenland: Full West Coast
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This animation shows the ice concentration in Greenland. The ice has decreased significantly (~50 cm/year) along the coast and increased slightly in the center (+2 cm/year). Researchers view this as yet another serious warning sign of the threat of global warming.
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Greenlands ice concentration change: blues represent significant loss and yellow represent sublte gains in ice
Duration: 38.0 seconds
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Entire country of Greenland: full data
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| Animation Number: | 1255 |
| Completed: | 2000-06-25 |
| Animator: | Lori Perkins (NASA/GSFC) (Lead) |
| Scientist: | Dorothy Hall (NASA/GSFC) |
| Platforms/Sensors/Data Sets: | Airborne Topographic Mapper
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| | Airplane/Airborne Topographic Mapper/Topography |
| Data Collected: | 1993/06-1993/07, 1994/05-1994/06, 1998/06-1998/07,1999/05, 1999/06-1999/07 |
| Series: | Greenland |
| Video: | SVS2000-0018 * |
Keywords:
DLESE
>> Climatology
DLESE
>> Cryology
SVS
>> Ice
SVS
>> Laser Altimeter
DLESE
>> Physical geography
GCMD
>> Location
>> Greenland
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More Information on this topic available at:
stories/greenland/index.html
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This work has been visible on
Space News August 7 2000 pp. 25 |
| Science paper: | Krabill, W., Abdalati, W., Frederick, E., Manizade, S., Martin, C., Sonntag, J.,Swift, R., Thomas, R., Wright, W. and Yungel, J. 2000. Greenland ice sheet: High-elevation balance and peripheral thinning. Science 289: 428-430. |
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Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio |
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