Jakobshavn Glacier Calving Front Recession (2001-2003)

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Jakobshavn Glacier Calving Front Recession (2001-2003)

Jakobshavn Isbrae holds the record as Greenland's fastest moving glacier and major contributor to the mass balance of the continental ice sheet. Starting in late 2000, following a period of slowing down in the mid 1990s, the glacier showed significant acceleration and nearly doubled its discharge of ice. The following imagery from the Landsat satellite shows the retreat of Jakobshavn's calving front from 2001 to 2003.

Animation showing the calving front recession from 2001 to 2003.

Metadata

  • Sensor

  • Animation ID

    3053

  • Start Timecode

    00:00:00:00

  • End Timecode

    00:00:00:00

  • Animator

    Alex Kekesi, Horace Mitchell

  • Studio

    SVS

  • Writer

    Sarah Dewitt

  • Visualization Date

    2004/11/30

  • Scientist

    Waleed Abdalati (NASA/HQ)

  • Citation

    Nature, Volume 432, 2 December 2004, pp. 608-610

  • Datasets

    bands 1, 2, 3

  • Keywords

    Glacier, Jakobshavn, GCMD--Location--Greenland, melting

  • Data Date

    5/20/2001, 5/23/02, 5/19/03

  • Story URL

    http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2004/dec/HQ_m04192_glacier_ice.html

  • Animation Type

    Regular