Operation IceBridge 2011 Arctic Flight Paths and Change in Elevation Data over Greenland

  • Released Monday, March 28, 2011
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With the aircraft resources of NASA's Airborne Sciences Program, Operation IceBridge is taking to the sky to ensure a sustained, critical watch over Earth's polar regions. Flight lines (black) are shown for the 2011 campaign over Arctic sea ice and Greenland's land ice. Many flights target outlet glaciers along the coast where NASA's Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) shows significant thinning. Blue and purple colors, respectively, indicate moderate to large thinning. Gray and yellow, respectively, indicate slight to moderate thickening. Since its launch in January 2003, the ICESat elevation satellite has been measuring the change in thickness of ice sheets. This image of Greenland shows the changes in elevation over the Greenland ice sheet between 2003 and 2006.

Nine Flights are being flown over Arctic Sea Ice

Elevation Change over Greenland

Elevation Change over Greenland

Flights over Ellesmere Island and Baffin Island

Flights over Ellesmere Island and Baffin Island

Flights over Peteman glacier and Humboldt glacier

Flights over Peteman glacier and Humboldt glacier

Operation IceBridge investigates elevation changes over cryoland and the northeast zone in Greenland.

Operation IceBridge investigates elevation changes over cryoland and the northeast zone in Greenland.

Operation IceBridge flies over Greenland's Jakobshavn and Russell glaciers.

Operation IceBridge flies over Greenland's Jakobshavn and Russell glaciers.

Flight paths over Geilie and Hei-Kang regions.

Flight paths over Geilie and Hei-Kang regions.

IceBridge also flies several flights over Southern Greenland.

IceBridge also flies several flights over Southern Greenland.

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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).

This page was originally published on Monday, March 28, 2011.
This page was last updated on Sunday, November 12, 2023 at 10:02 PM EST.

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