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Warm Winds Trigger Melting in Antarctica

Unusual late-season events could produce long-term changes to the snowpack on the Larsen C ice shelf.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Warm Winds Trigger Melting in Antarctica.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and using Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica (REMA) data from the Polar Geospatial Center at the University of Minnesota. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published April 11, 2019
Data acquired March 3, 2016