Greenland: Top-down View of Island Tour with Airplane Tracks
Top-down view of Greenland Island tour.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.
Animation to show how a plane takes coastal measurements
Scientist-provided color scale image with air track pattern of data collection
Plane making Lidar measurements of ice concentration
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Animation to show how a plane takes coastal measurements
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Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animator
- Lori Perkins (NASA/GSFC)
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Scientist
- Dorothy Hall (NASA/GSFC)
Release date
This page was originally published on Sunday, June 25, 2000.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:58 PM EDT.
Series
This visualization can be found in the following series:Papers used in this visualization
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
Datasets used in this visualization
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Topography [Airplane: Airborne Topographic Mapper]
ID: 232
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