Maximum Antarctic Sea Ice 2015
- Visualizations by:
- Cindy Starr
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The Antarctic sea ice reached its annual maximum extent on October 6, 2015. The images shown here portray the sea ice as it was observed by the AMSR2 instrument onboard the Japanese Suzaku satellite. The opacity of the sea ice is derived from the AMSR2 sea ice concentration. The blueish white color of the sea ice is derived from the AMSR2 89 GHz brightness temperature. In some of the images, a thin red line demarks the average maximum sea ice extent from 1981 through 2010. The Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica is shown over the continent.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
Visualizers
- Cindy Starr (GST) [Lead]
- Lori Perkins (NASA/GSFC)
Writer
- Maria-Jose Vinas Garcia (Telophase)
Scientists
- Josefino Comiso (NASA/GSFC)
- Walt Meier (NASA/GSFC)
Project support
- Eric Sokolowsky (GST)
- Joycelyn Thomson Jones (NASA/GSFC)
- Leann Johnson (GST)
Technical support
- Ian Jones (ADNET)
- Laurence Schuler (ADNET)
Sr. data analyst
- Robert Gersten (SGT)
Missions
This visualization is related to the following missions:Datasets used in this visualization
SHIZUKU (GCOM-W1) 10 km Daily 89 GHz Brightness Temperature (Collected with the AMSR2 sensor)
Observed DataJapan Aerospace Exploration Agency09/08/2015
Credit: AMSR2 data courtesy of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
See more visualizations using this data setSHIZUKU (GCOM-W1) 10 km Daily Sea Ice Concentration (Collected with the AMSR2 sensor)
Observed DataJapan Aerospace Exploration Agency09/08/2015
Credit: AMSR2 data courtesy of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
See more visualizations using this data setTerra and Aqua BMNG (A.K.A. Blue Marble: Next Generation) (Collected with the MODIS sensor)
Credit: The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).
Dataset can be found at: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/
See more visualizations using this data setNote: While we identify the data sets used in these visualizations, we do not store any further details nor the data sets themselves on our site.
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