Daily Arctic Sea Ice - Summer 2009
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- Cindy Starr
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Duing the summer of 2009, the arctic sea ice reached its minimum extent on September 12th. The 2009 minimum extent was the third lowest extent measured since the beginning of the satellite record in 1979. This animation shows the summer retreat of sea ice over the Arctic from 7/1/2009 through 9/12/2009. The sea ice was defined by a 3-day moving average of the AMSR-E 12.5 km sea ice concentration, showing the region where the sea ice concentration was greater than 15%. The false color of the sea ice was derived from the AMSR-E 6.25 km brightness temperature.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
Animator
- Trent L. Schindler (USRA)
Visualizer
- Cindy Starr (GST) [Lead]
Producer
- Laura Motel (UMBC)
Series
This visualization can be found in the following series:Datasets used in this visualization
Aqua Daily L3 6.25 km 89 GHz Brightness Temperature (Tb) (Collected with the AMSR-E sensor)
Aqua Sea Ice Concentration (A.K.A. Level 3 12.5 km Sea Ice Concentration) (Collected with the AMSR-E sensor)
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