Greenland West Coast

The rugged, ice-carved Greenland coastline appears to be thawing out a bit in this MODIS image from May 21, 2002. In the Davis Strait (left), a warm arm of the North Atlantic Drift flows northward and clears the winter.s ice, while the western portion of the Strait is choked with ice from the Labrador Current, flowing south from the Arctic.

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Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

Published May 27, 2002
Data acquired May 21 - 21, 2002

Source:

Terra > MODIS

Collection:

Visible Earth