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Arctic Sea Ice Context Shot

This is a contextual setup animation intended to be shown before the visualization of several cryosphere datasets. The cryosphere datasets are rendered with the same final camera position.

This visualization was created in support of the October 2003 Cryosphere Earth Science Update (ESU).


This is a contextual setup animation intended to be shown before the visualization of several Arctic sea ice/cryosphere datasets.    This is a contextual setup animation intended to be shown before the visualization of several Arctic sea ice/cryosphere datasets.
Duration: 4.0 seconds
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  640x480 (30 fps) MPEG-1   2 MB
  720x480 (29.97 fps) MPEG-2   3 MB
  320x240 (30 fps) MPEG-1   574 KB
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Animation Number:2848
Animators:Greg Shirah (Lead)
 James W. Williams
 Cindy Starr
Studio:SVS
Completed:2003-10-15
Scientist:Josefino Comiso (NASA/GSFC)
Instrument:DMSP/SSMI
Data set:Blue Marble
Data Collected:DMSP/SSMI: 1979-2003
Series:Cryosphere 2003
Keywords:
SVS >> Ice
More Information on this topic available at:
http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/2003/1023esuice.html
Science paper:A rapidly declining perennial sea ice cover in the Arctic, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 29, No. 20, October 2002.
 
 
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