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Operation IceBridge Greenland Spring 2010 Flight Paths

Visualizations by Lori Perkins Released on March 17, 2010
Operation Ice Bridge is a six-year campaign of annual flights to each of Earth's polar regions. The first flights in March and April carried researchers over Greenland and the Arctic Ocean. This spring's Artic campaign, led by principal investigator Seelye Martin of the University of Washington, will begin the first sustained airborne research effort of its kind over the continent. Data collected by researchers will help scientists bridge the gap between NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) — which is operating the last of its three lasers — and ICESat-II, scheduled to launch in 2014.

The Ice Bridge flights will help scientists maintain the record of changes to sea ice and ice sheets that have been collected since 2003 by ICESat. The flights will lack the continent-wide coverage that can be achieved by satellite, so researchers carefully select key target locations. But the flights will also turn up new information not possible from orbit, such as the shape of the terrain below the ice.

Thirteen flights are scheduled and displayed in this visualization.

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Flight Paths for Operation Ice Bridge, Greenland Spring 2010
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Flight Path aound the Peterman Glacier
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Flight Path from Thule Air Base to North East Greenland
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Second Flight Path from Thule Air Base to North East Greenland
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Sea Ice Flight Path 1
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Sea Ice Flight Path 2
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Sea Ice Flight Path 3
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Sea Ice Flight Path 4
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Sea Ice Flight Path 5
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Sea Ice Flight Path 6
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Sea Ice FLight Path 7
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Sea Ice Flight Path 8
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South East Flight Path
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North West Flight Path
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Operation ICe Bridge Greenland Spring 2010 Flight Paths for phase 1 and phase 2.
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Flight Path 1 along the Jakobshavn Glacier
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Flight Path 2 from Thule Air Base to the Jakobshavn Glacier
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Third Flight Path from Thule to North East Greenland
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Fourth Flight Path from Thule Air Base to North East Greenland
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North West Coastal Flight Path 1
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North West Coastal Flight Path 2
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Russell Glacier
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South East Coastal Flight Path
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Flight Path along the South East Glaciers

Visualization Credits

Lori Perkins (NASA/GSFC): Lead Animator
Michelle Williams (UMBC): Producer
John Sonntag (EGG): Scientist
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

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Mission:
Operation IceBridge

Data Used:
Operation Ice Bridge Flight Paths
March 2010
NASA DC-8 Flight Path
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Operation IceBridge

Keywords:
SVS >> HDTV
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Cryosphere >> Glaciers/Ice Sheets
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Cryosphere >> Glaciers/Ice Sheets >> Glacier Elevation/Ice Sheet Elevation
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Cryosphere >> Glaciers/Ice Sheets >> Glacier Topography/Ice Sheet Topography
GCMD >> Location >> Arctic
SVS >> For Educators
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