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| View Original: | 2013 Daily Arctic Sea Ice from AMSR2 May - September 2013 STILL IMAGE.png (5760x3240) | |||
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| Keywords: 2013 Daily Arctic Sea Ice from AMSR2 May - September 2013 STILL IMAGE.png en A still image of the Arctic sea ice on September 12th 2013 when the sea ice reached the annual minimum extent of 5 22 million square km 2013-09-19 http //svs gsfc nasa gov/goto 4104 NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio AMSR2 data courtesy of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency JAXA The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency JAXA provides many water-related products derived from data acquired by the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 AMSR2 instrument aboard the Global Change Observation Mission 1st-Water SHIZUKU GCOM-W1 satellite Two JAXA datasets used in this animation are the 10-km daily sea ice concentration and the 10 km daily 89 GHz Brightness Temperature In this animation the daily Arctic sea ice and seasonal land cover change progress through time from May 16 2013 through September 12 2013 when the sea ice reached its minimum area of coverage for 2013 Over the water Arctic sea ice changes from day to day showing a running 3-day minimum sea ice concentration in the region where the concentration is greater than 15 The blueish white colour of the sea ice is derived from a 3-day running minimum of the AMSR2 89 GHz brightness temperature Over the land monthly data from the seasonal Blue Marble Next Generation fades slowly from month to month cc-zero Uploaded with UploadWizard Arctic AMSR2 Arctic sea ice extent | ||||
