Earth  ID: 11361

Warm Ocean Melting Pine Island Glacier

Released on September 12, 2013
For five years an international team of experts, led by NASA emeritus glaciologist Robert Bindschadler and funded by the National Science Foundation and NASA, planned and orchestrated a mission to drill through the floating ice shelf of the Pine Island Glacier. Finally they persevered over harsh weather conditions, a short Antarctic field season, and the remote location of the glacier, and installed a variety of instruments to measure the properties of the ocean water below the ice shelf.
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This animation shows the drill site location on the Pine Island Ice Shelf along with velocity-colored ocean flows from the ECCO3 model.

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Cindy Starr (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Lead Animator
Jefferson Beck (USRA): Producer
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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

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