Baffin Bay, Ellesmere Island (Northernmost Canada) and North Coast of Greenland

This series of MODIS images from April 8-29, 2002, shows winter sea ice--and the beginnings of spring thaw.in Baffin Bay between Greenland (right) and EllesmereIsland, Canada (top island at left). Warmer waters from the Labrador Sea to the south begin to encroach into the Bay as spring progresses, eventually freeing the Bay of its winter ice.

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

Published April 23, 2002
Data acquired April 11 - 11, 2002

Source:

Terra > MODIS

Collection:

MODIS Rapid Response