Greenland: East Coast Zoom-down With Ice Data

  • Released Thursday, March 4, 1999
  • Updated Friday, May 22, 2015 at 5:03PM
  • ID: 586
The largest decrease in ice elevation occurred on Greenland's east coast. Dark blue indicates the area of largest ice loss. This animation is match-moved to animation #585 and the reverse of #588.

Zoom-down to the east coast of Greenland showing changes in ice thickness from 1993-1994 to 1998-1999 as measured by the Airborne Topographic Mapper

Colorbar for ice change data

Colorbar for ice change data

Video slate image reads, "Greenland Ice Changes (GIC 7)Zoom down to Greenland's east coast centering on area where laser altimeter data shows the largest decrease in ice elevation over the past year. (Blue indicates elevation decreases, where orange/red indicate elevation increases.)".

Video slate image reads, "Greenland Ice Changes (GIC 7)
Zoom down to Greenland's east coast centering on area where laser altimeter data shows the largest decrease in ice elevation over the past year. (Blue indicates elevation decreases, where orange/red indicate elevation increases.)".

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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