A Short Tour of the Cryosphere

  • Released Saturday, May 20, 2006
  • Updated Wednesday, January 14, 2015 at 12:02PM
  • ID: 3355

A newer version of this animation is available here.

This narrated, 5-minute animation shows a wealth of data collected from satellite observations of the cryosphere and the impact that recent cryospheric changes are making on our planet. This is a shorter version of a narrated, 7 1/2 minute animation entitled 'A Tour of the Cryosphere'.

See the above link for a detailed description of the full animation.

Two sections have been removed from the original animation: one showing a flyby of the South Pole station and glaciers feeding the Ross Ice Shelf and one showing solar data related to the Earth's energy balance.

For more information on the data sets used in this visualization, visit NASA's EOS DAAC website.



Credits

Please give credit for this visualization to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio Designed by EOSDIS Outreach Team ESDIS Science Operations Office NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Carol Boquist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Jennifer Farnham-Brennan, Global Science and Technology, Inc. Dr. Brian Krupp, Global Science and Technology, Inc. Directed and Edited by Dr. Horace Mitchell, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Written by Jarrett Cohen, Global Science and Technology, Inc. Michael Starobin, Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc. Narrated by Michael Starobin, Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc. Audio Engineering by Mike Velle, Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc. Music by Michael Starobin, Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc. MODIS Snow and Ice data courtesy of Dr. Dorothy Hall, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Dr. Vince Salomonson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Dr. George Riggs, Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Arctic Sea Ice data courtesy of the National Snow and Ice Data Center Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences University of Colorado MODIS Imagery courtesy of the MODIS Land Rapid Response Project NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the University of Maryland Jacques Descloitres, Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Jeffrey E. Schmaltz, Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Blue Marble MODIS data composite courtesy of the MODIS Science Team NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the NASA Earth Observatory Reto Stockli, Science Systems and Applications, Inc. RADARSAT data courtesy of the Canadian Space Agency Jakobshavn Ice Velocity data courtesy of Dr. Ian Joughin, University of Washington QuikSCAT Seawinds data courtesy of the BYU Center for Remote Sensing Dr. David Long, Brigham Young University Permafrost data courtesy of the United States Geological Survey and the International Permafrost Association Topography data courtesy of the United States Geological Survey Cloud data courtesy of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Population data courtesy of the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center SeaWiFS data courtesy of the SeaWiFS Project and GeoEye NOTE: All SeaWiFS images and data presented on this web site are for research and educational use only. All commercial use of SeaWiFS data must be coordinated with GeoEye (NOTE: In January 2013, DigitalGlobe and GeoEye combined to become one DigitalGlobe.). All other data courtesy of NASA NASA EOSDIS and other EOS data distributed by NASA's Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) http://nasadaacs.eos.nasa.gov


Series

This visualization can be found in the following series:

Datasets used in this visualization

ICESat (Collected with the GLAS sensor)
Landsat-7 (Collected with the ETM+ sensor)
Nimbus-7 (Collected with the SMMR sensor)
RADARSAT-1 (Collected with the SAR sensor)

Credit: Additional credit goes to Canadian Space Agency, RADARSAT International Inc.

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Terra (Collected with the ASTER sensor)
Terra (Collected with the MODIS sensor)
SORCE (Collected with the TIM sensor)
DMSP (Collected with the OLS sensor)

Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Operational Linescan System

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Aqua Average Net Flux (Collected with the CERES sensor)
Terra and Aqua Blue Marble Land Cover (Collected with the MODIS sensor)

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

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Circum-Arctic Map of Permafrost and Ground-Ice Conditions
Data CompilationNSIDC
Terra CO Mixing Ratio (Collected with the MOPITT sensor)
Comiso's September Minimum Sea Ice Concentration
Data CompilationNASA/GSFC
Aqua Sea Ice Concentration (A.K.A. Daily L3 12.5km Tb, Sea Ice Concentration, and Snow Depth) (Collected with the AMSR-E sensor)
Aqua Daily L3 6.25 km 89 GHz Brightness Temperature (Tb) (Collected with the AMSR-E sensor)
Gridded Population of the World (Version 3 Beta)
Data CompilationSEDAC
Infrared Global Geostationary Composite
Data CompilationNational Center for Environmental Prediction/Aviation Weather Center (NCEP/AWS)

Satellite Data Used to Produce WORLD-IR14KM Mosaic: GOES-11 - Southern hemisphere Band 4 10.7 um IR, Northern hemisphere Band 4 10.7 um IR; GOES-12 - Southern hemisphere Band 4 10.7 um IR, Northern hemisphere Band 4 10.7 um IR; Meteosat-7 - Band 8 11.5 um IR; Meteosat-9 - Band 9 10.8 um IR; MTSAT-1R - Band 2 10.8 um IR; NOAA-15 - Band 4 11 micron IR; NOAA-16 - Band 4 11 micron IR; NOAA-17 - Band 4 11 micron IR

Dataset can be found at: http://ghrc.msfc.nasa.gov/uso/ds_catalog/globalir.html

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Aqua Instantaneous Net Flux (Collected with the CERES sensor)
Aqua Instantaneous Outgoing Thermal (Collected with the CERES sensor)
Aqua Instantaneous Reflected Flux (Collected with the CERES sensor)
SeaStar ERS SAR-derived Glacial Floes (A.K.A. Land Reflectance) (Collected with the SeaWiFS sensor)

All SeaWiFS images and data presented on this web site are for research and educational use only. All commercial use of SeaWiFS data must be coordinated with GeoEye.

Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, The SeaWiFS Project and GeoEye, Scientific Visualization Studio. NOTE: All SeaWiFS images and data presented on this web site are for research and educational use only. All commercial use of SeaWiFS data must be coordinated with GeoEye (NOTE: In January 2013, DigitalGlobe and GeoEye combined to become one DigitalGlobe.).

Dataset can be found at: http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/PRODUCTS/

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ISTP/CGS Magnetopause (Collected with the Model sensor)
TRMM Monthly Average Precipitation (Collected with the PR and TMI sensor)
NOAA NDVI (Collected with the AVHRR sensor)
SeaStar NDVI (Collected with the SeaWiFS sensor)

All SeaWiFS images and data presented on this web site are for research and educational use only. All commercial use of SeaWiFS data must be coordinated with GeoEye.

Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, The SeaWiFS Project and GeoEye, Scientific Visualization Studio. NOTE: All SeaWiFS images and data presented on this web site are for research and educational use only. All commercial use of SeaWiFS data must be coordinated with GeoEye (NOTE: In January 2013, DigitalGlobe and GeoEye combined to become one DigitalGlobe.).

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Terra Outgoing Longwave Radiation (Collected with the CERES sensor)
QuikSCAT SIR (A.K.A. Scatterometer Image Reconstruction (SIR)) (Collected with the SeaWinds sensor)
Aqua Sea Ice Extent and Ice Surface Temperature Daily L3 Global 4km EASE-Grid Day (MYD29E1D) (Collected with the MODIS sensor)
DMSP September Mean Sea Ice Concentration (Collected with the SSM/I sensor)
Nimbus-7 September Sea Ice Concentration Anomaly (Collected with the SSMR sensor)
Terra Shortwave Radiation (Collected with the CERES sensor)
World Glacier Inventory
Data CompilationNSIDC

Note: While we identify the data sets used in these visualizations, we do not store any further details nor the data sets themselves on our site.


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