Earth  ID: 3552

Yearly Antarctic Sea Ice Minima from 1979 through 2008

Visualizations by Greg Shirah Released on September 20, 2008
This visualization shows Antarctic sea ice minima from 1979 through 2008. Near the end of each southern hemisphere summer (usually in February), the Antarctic sea ice cover reaches its minimum extent and what is left is called the perennial ice cover which consists mainly of thick multi-year ice floes.
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Yearly Antarctic Sea Ice Minima from 1979 through 2008 without climatology (average from 1979 to 2008)
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Yearly Antarctic Sea Ice Minima from 1979 through 2008 with red climatology (average from 1979 to 2008)

Visualization Credits

Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC): Lead Animator
Josefino Comiso (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio Thanks to Rob Gerston (GSFC) for providing the data.

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Data Used:
DMSP/SSM/I
SSMI sea ice data: 1979/02/17, 1980/03/01, 1981/02/18, 1982/02/21, 1983/02/24, 1984/02/19, 1985/02/19, 1986/02/28, 1987/02/21, 1988/02/24, 1989/02/16, 1990/02/21, 1991/02/28, 1992/02/21, 1993/02/14, 1994/02/11, 1995/02/14, 1996/02/20, 1997/02/19, 1998/02/17, 1999/02/21, 2000/02/16, 2001/02/19, 2002/02/16, 2003/02/16, 2004/02/20, 2005/02/14, 2006/02/19, 2007/02/19, 2008/02/16
Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Special Sensor Microwave Imager
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Comiso's Daily Sea Ice Concentration
Data Compilation - NASA/GSFC
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Keywords:
DLESE >> Cryology
SVS >> HDTV
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Cryosphere >> Sea Ice
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Cryosphere >> Sea Ice >> Sea Ice Concentration
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NASA Science >> Earth

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0