Sea Ice Minimum Concentration for 1979-2005

  • Released Tuesday, September 27th, 2005
  • Updated Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023 at 1:56PM
  • ID: 3266

This animation shows the annual minimum sea ice extent and concentration for 25 years, from 1979 to 2005. Average climatology from 1979 to 2004 which is shown as a yellow outline is also included.
Three year moving average are shown from 1979-1981 through 2003-2005.


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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio


Missions

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Datasets used in this visualization

DMSP (Collected with the SSM/I sensor)

Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Special Sensor Microwave Imager

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(Collected with the GTOPO30 sensor)
Model USGS
Aqua Blue Marble (Collected with the MODIS sensor)

Credit: The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).

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Terra Blue Marble (Collected with the MODIS sensor)

Credit: The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).

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Comiso's September Minimum Sea Ice Concentration
Data Compilation NASA/GSFC

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