Jakobshavn Glacier, Greenland flow field

  • Released Monday, December 13th, 2004
  • Updated Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 at 1:56PM
  • ID: 3072

This visualization shows flow directions and relative speeds of the Jakobshavn glacier in Greenland. The red flow lines are from 1992 data; the blue flow lines are 2000 data. Notice that the flow speed of the glacier has increased significantly from 1992 to 2000.

This visualization was created to support a talk at the Fall 2004 AGU meeting.

Jakobshavn glacier flow vectors with 1992 in red and 2000 in blue.

Jakobshavn glacier flow with 1992 data in red and 2000 data in blue

Jakobshavn glacier flow with 1992 data in red and 2000 data in blue

Jakobshavn glacier flow with 1992 data in red

Jakobshavn glacier flow with 1992 data in red

Jakobshavn glacier flow with 2000 data in blue

Jakobshavn glacier flow with 2000 data in blue

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Datasets used in this visualization

Landsat Band Combination 1, 2, 3 (Collected with the TM, ETM, ETM+ sensor)
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Landsat-7 Jakobshavn flow field (Collected with the ETM+ sensor)
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