2005 Sea Ice over the Arctic derived from AMSR-E

  • Released Monday, January 30, 2006
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This animation shows the Spring retreat and subsequent Autumn advance of sea ice over the Arctic from 1/1/2005 through 12/31/2005. The false color of the sea ice, derived from the AMSR-E 6.25 km brightness temperature, was designed to highlight the fissures in the sea ice. Moving 3-day minimum brightness temperatures provide a background for smooth ice movement over which the actual daily brightness temperatures were mapped for definition of the ice structures. The sea ice extent was defined by a 3-day moving average of the AMSR-E 12.5 km sea ice concentration, showing as ice all areas having a sea ice concentration greater than 15%.



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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Release date

This page was originally published on Monday, January 30, 2006.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:55 PM EDT.


Datasets used in this visualization

  • Daily L3 6.25 km 89 GHz Brightness Temperature (Tb) [Aqua: AMSR-E]

    ID: 236
    Sensor: AMSR-E Dates used: 1/1/2005 through 12/31/2005
  • Sea Ice Concentration (Daily L3 12.5km Tb, Sea Ice Concentration, and Snow Depth) [Aqua: AMSR-E]

    ID: 237
    Sensor: AMSR-E Dates used: 1/1/2005 through 12/31/2005

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