Earth  ID: 1071

March Monthly Sea Ice Concentrations for 1979-1998 (Purple)

Visualizations by Tom Biddlecome Released on May 30, 2000
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Arctic sea ice concentrations in March of each year from 1979 through 1998
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March monthly sea ice concentrations for 1979-1998".

 

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March Monthly Sea Ice Concentrations for 1979-1998 (White)
March Monthly Sea Ice Concentrations for 1979-1998 (Green)

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Visualization Credits

Tom Biddlecome (Raytheon): Lead Animator
Claire Parkinson (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

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Data Used:
Nimbus-7 and DMSP/SMMR and SSM/I/Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I Passive Microwave Data also referred to as: Sea Ice Concentrations
1940/03-1998/03
This data set is generated from brightness temperature data derived from Nimbus-7 Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) and Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) -F8, -F11 and -F13 Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) radiances at a grid cell size of 25 x 25 km. The data are provided in the polar stereographic projection.
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This item is part of this series:
Arctic Ice

Keywords:
DLESE >> Cryology
SVS >> Ice
NASA Science >> Earth