Ice Arch Persists Despite Warm Arctic

This natural gatekeeper, which prevents sea ice from exiting the Arctic Ocean and drifting southward into Baffin Bay, was still intact in late May 2020.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Ice Arch Persists Despite Warm Arctic.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin and Joshua Stevens, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published June 3, 2020
Data acquired May 22, 2020

Sources:: Map; Terra > MODIS