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Greenland: East Coast Zoom-down with Ice Data
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    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

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Video ID: SVS1999-0007 *
Animator: Alex Kekesi
Studio: SVS
Date Completed: March 04, 1999
Duration: 298 frames, 9.933333 seconds
Scientist: William Krabill (NASA/GSFC Wallops)
Citation: 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
Instrument: Airborne Topographic Mapper
Datasets: Topography
Keywords: Greenland, Ice, Laser Altimeter
DLESESubject: Cryology
Data Collected: 1993/06-1993/07, 1994/05-1994/06, 1998/06-1998/07, 1999/05
PAOID: g99-016_earth
Story: stories/greenland/index.html
Animation Series: Greenland



Please give credit for this visualization to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio


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