Greenland: Ice Change

  • Released Thursday, March 4, 1999
  • Updated Friday, May 22, 2015 at 5:03PM
  • ID: 584
This animation shows ice loss on Greenland via interpolated laser altimeter data. This animation has been match-moved to animations #583 and #582.

A pan around Greenland showing changes in ice thickness from 1993-1994 to 1998-1999 as measured by the Airborne Topographic Mapper

Top-down view of Greenland ice change data

Top-down view of Greenland ice change data

Angled view of Greenland ice change data

Angled view of Greenland ice change data

Ice change scale

Ice change scale

Image of Greenlands largest area of ice loss

Image of Greenlands largest area of ice loss

Video slate image reads, "Greenland Ice Changes (GIC 5)Shows interpolated laser altimeter data over Greenland. This scene picks up where GIC 1 leaves off, and the first half of it matches the camera motion paths of GIC 3 and 4 allowing for ealy dissolves with these other two scenes. The camera then continues on to Greenland's east coast settling on the largest elevation decrease shown in the data."

Video slate image reads, "Greenland Ice Changes (GIC 5)
Shows interpolated laser altimeter data over Greenland. This scene picks up where GIC 1 leaves off, and the first half of it matches the camera motion paths of GIC 3 and 4 allowing for ealy dissolves with these other two scenes. The camera then continues on to Greenland's east coast settling on the largest elevation decrease shown in the data."

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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