Sea Ice Minimum Extent (1979-2003)

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Sea ice minimum extent for 1979-2003

This animation shows the annual minimum sea ice extent and concentration for 24 years, from 1979 to 2003. The year 2002 showed lowest level of sea ice on record. This visualization was created in support of the October 2003 Cryosphere Earth Science Update (ESU).

Sea ice minimum extent for 1998

Metadata

  • Sensor

  • Animation ID

    2850

  • Video ID

    None

  • Start Timecode

    00:00:00:00

  • End Timecode

    00:00:00:00

  • Animator

    Greg Shirah, James W. Williams, Cindy Starr

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Visualization Date

    2003/10/15

  • 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.

  • Datasets

    Blue Marble, USGS/GTOPO30

  • Keywords

    ice

  • Story URL

    http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/2003/1023esuice.html

  • Animation Type

    Regular