Ayles Ice Shelf Breakup in Arctic
-
- Visualizations by:
- Cindy Starr
- View full credits
On August 13, 2005, almost the entire Ayles Ice Shelf calved from the northern edge of Ellesmere Island. This reduced the remaining ice shelves there from 6 to 5, and continues a trend of dramatic loss of these ice shelves over the past century. Since 1900, approximately 90% of the Ellesmere Island ice shelves have calved and floated away. This is a one-way process as there is insufficient new ice formation to replace the ice that has been lost. The Ayles calving event was the largest in at least the last 25 years; a total of 87.1 sq km (33.6 sq miles) of ice was lost in this event, of which the largest piece was 66.4 sq km (25.6 sq. miles) in area. This piece is equivalent in size to approximately 11,000 football fields or a little larger than the island of Manhattan.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
MODIS data courtesy of MODIS Rapid Response Project (NASA/GSFC and University of Maryland - http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov)
The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).
-
Visualizer
- Cindy Starr (Global Science and Technology, Inc.) [Lead]
-
Scientist
- Luke Copland (University of Ottawa)
Missions
This visualization is related to the following missions:Datasets used in this visualization
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)
Terra Land Surface Reflectance (Collected with the MODIS sensor)
NASA
2005-08-13 to 2005-08-14
Dataset can be found at: http://landweb.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/browse/browse.cgi
See more visualizations using this data setNote: 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.
You may also like...
Loading...