Greenland: Raw Data Flight Paths Showing Ice Change

  • Released Thursday, March 4, 1999
  • Updated Friday, May 22, 2015 at 5:03PM
  • ID: 581
Raw data flight paths over Greenland as they were collected. Match-moved to to airplane animation #580.

Animation of flight paths over Greenland showing ice thickness change data from the Airborne Topographic Mapper

Raw data flight paths colored by ice thickness change data from the Airborne Topographic Mapper

Raw data flight paths colored by ice thickness change data from the Airborne Topographic Mapper

Video slate image reads, "Greenland Ice Changes (GIC 2) Shows all the flight paths (with associated raw data) taken from Laser Altimeter equipped aircraft over Greenland. This scene matches the tail of scene GIC 1, allowing a dissolve to occur between GIC 1 and GIC 2, if desired".

Video slate image reads, "Greenland Ice Changes (GIC 2)
Shows all the flight paths (with associated raw data) taken from Laser Altimeter equipped aircraft over Greenland. This scene matches the tail of scene GIC 1, allowing a dissolve to occur between GIC 1 and GIC 2, if desired".

For More Information

See http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/stories/greenland/index.html

Credits

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Papers

This visualization is based on the following papers:
  • W. Krabill, E. Frederick, S. Manizade, C. Martin, J. Sonntag, R. Swift, R. Thomas, W. Wright, and J. Yungel, Rapid Thinning of Parts of the Southern Greenland Ice Sheet, Science, 283, n5407, pp 1522-1524, March 5, 1999

Series

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Datasets used in this visualization

(Collected with the Airborne Topographic Mapper sensor)
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