Change in Elevation over Greenland with Alternate Color Scale
- Visualizations by:
- Cindy Starr
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Credits
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
The Next Generation Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).
Animator
- Helen-Nicole Kostis (USRA)
Visualizer
- Cindy Starr (GST) [Lead]
Scientists
- Jay Zwally (NASA/GSFC)
- Waleed Abdalati (University of Colorado Boulder/CIRES)
Missions
This visualization is related to the following missions:Datasets used in this visualization
ICESat (Collected with the GLAS sensor)
TRMM Monthly Average Precipitation (Collected with the PR and TMI sensor)
Nimbus-7 September Sea Ice Concentration Anomaly (Collected with the SSMR sensor)
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