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Arctic Sea Ice Four Year Moving Average
This animation shows a moving 4 year average of annual minimum sea ice extent and concentration from 1979-1982 through 2000-2003. This visualization was created in support of the October 2003 Cryosphere Earth Science Update (ESU).

Web resolution movie of sea ice moving averages    Web resolution movie of sea ice moving averages

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Average of sea ice minumum extent from 2000 through 2003    Average of sea ice minumum extent from 2000 through 2003

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Average of sea ice minumum extent from 1979 to 1982    Average of sea ice minumum extent from 1979 to 1982

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Animators: Greg Shirah
James W. Williams
Cindy Starr
Studio: SVS
Date Completed: October 15, 2003
Duration: 422 frames, 14.066667 seconds
Scientist: Josefino Comiso (NASA/GSFC)
Citation: A rapidly declining perennial sea ice cover in the Arctic, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 29, No. 20, October 2002.
Instrument: DMSP/SSMI
Datasets: MODIS Bluemarble
Keywords: ice
Data Collected: DMSP/SSMI: 1979-2003
Story: http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/2003/1023esuice.html
Animation Series: Cryosphere 2003



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


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