Circulation of Ocean Currents Around the Western Antarctic Ice Shelves
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- Visualizations by:
- Trent L. Schindler
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This animation shows the circulation of ocean currents around the western Antarctic ice shelves. The shelves are indicated by the rainbow color; red is thicker (>550m), while blue is thinner (<200m). The ocean flow runs from the surface to 900 m, colored white at the surface and fading to light blue at depth, and is based on the ECCO2 model over a representative two-month period. Bathymetry, topography, and ice thickness were derived from the RTopo-1 dataset of Timmermann, et al. (http://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.741917). Ground color is from MODIS/Blue Marble.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animators
- Trent L. Schindler (USRA) [Lead]
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
- Horace Mitchell (NASA/GSFC)
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Producer
- Patrick Lynch (NASA/GSFC)
Missions
This visualization is related to the following missions:Datasets used in this visualization
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Terra Blue Marble
ID: 492Credit: The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).
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ECCO2 (ECCO2 High Resolution Ocean and Sea Ice Model)
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RTopo-1
ID: 737
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