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Greenland: Full West Coast
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This animation shows the ice concentration in Greenland. The ice has decreased significantly (~50 cm/year) along the coast and increased slightly in the center (+2 cm/year). Researchers view this as yet another serious warning sign of the threat of global warming.
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Greenland's ice concentration change: blues represent significant loss and yellow represent sublte gains in ice
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Entire country of Greenland: full data
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Video ID: SVS2000-0018 *
Animator: Lori Perkins
Studio: SVS
Date Completed: June 25, 2000
Duration: 1149 frames,
38.3 seconds
Scientist: Dorothy Hall (NASA/GSFC)
Citation: Krabill, W., Abdalati, W., Frederick, E., Manizade, S., Martin, C., Sonntag, J.,Swift, R., Thomas, R., Wright, W. and Yungel, J. 2000. Greenland ice sheet: High-elevation balance and peripheral thinning. Science 289: 428-430.
Instrument: Airborne Topographic Mapper
Datasets: Topography
Keywords: Ice, Greenland, Laser Altimeter
DLESESubject: Physical geography, Climatology, Cryology
Data Collected: 1993/06-1993/07, 1994/05-1994/06, 1998/06-1998/07,1999/05, 1999/06-1999/07
Story: stories/greenland/index.html
Animation Series: Greenland
AirChecks: Space News August 7 2000 pp. 25
Please give credit for this visualization to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio
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