Greenland: East Coast Zoom-out With Ice Data

  • Released Thursday, March 4, 1999
  • Updated Friday, May 22, 2015 at 5:03PM
  • ID: 588
Dark blue indicates large amounts of ice loss, and light blue indicates lesser amounts of ice loss. This animation is match-moved to animation #587.

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

East coast of Greenland showing the largest area of ice-loss

East coast of Greenland showing the largest area of ice-loss

Colorbar for Greenland

Colorbar for Greenland

Video slate image reads, "Greenland Ice Changes (GIC 9)Reverse of GIC 7. Camera starts on the east coast of Greenland centering on the area of elevation decrease and flies up to show the continent."

Video slate image reads, "Greenland Ice Changes (GIC 9)
Reverse of GIC 7. Camera starts on the east coast of Greenland centering on the area of elevation decrease and flies up to show the continent."

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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