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Arctic Sea Ice Minimum Extent for 2010
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- Trent L. Schindler
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Sea ice is frozen seawater floating on the surface of the ocean. Some sea ice is semi-permanent, persisting from year to year, and some is seasonal, melting and refreezing from season to season. The sea ice cover reaches its minimum extent at the end of each summer and the remaining ice is called the perennial ice cover.
In this animation, the Arctic sea ice and seasonal land cover change progress through time, from March 31, 2010 when sea ice in the Arctic was at its maximum extent, through September 19, 2010, when it was at its minimum. The blueish white color of the sea ice is derived from a 3-day running maximum of the AMSR-E 89 GHz brightness temperature. Over the terrain, monthly data from the seasonal Blue Marble Next Generation fades slowly from month to month.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).
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Animators
- Trent L. Schindler (USRA) [Lead]
- Helen-Nicole Kostis (USRA)
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Visualizer
- Cindy Starr (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Writer
- Kathryn Hansen (SSAI)
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Video editors
- Laura Motel (UMBC)
- Rich Melnick (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Scientist
- Josefino Comiso (NASA/GSFC)
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Producer
- Michelle Williams (UMBC)
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Project support
- James W. Williams (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
- Shiloh Heurich (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
Missions
This visualization is related to the following missions:Datasets used in this visualization
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Aqua Daily L3 6.25 km 89 GHz Brightness Temperature (Tb)
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Aqua Sea Ice Concentration (Daily L3 12.5km Tb, Sea Ice Concentration, and Snow Depth)
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Terra and Aqua Blue Marble Land Cover
ID: 510Credit: The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).
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