Operation IceBridge - Western Greenland Sea Ice

  • Released Monday, December 9, 2019

NASA’s Operation IceBridge images Earth’s polar ice in unprecedented detail to better understand processes that connect the polar regions with the global climate system. IceBridge utilizes a highly specialized fleet of research aircraft and the most sophisticated suite of innovative science instruments ever assembled to characterize annual changes in thickness of sea ice, glaciers, and ice sheets. In addition, IceBridge collects critical data used to predict the response of earth’s polar ice to climate change and resulting sea-level rise.

In 2019, IceBridge was based out of Kangerlussuaq in western Greenland, surveying both sea ice and land ice.



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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

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This page was originally published on Monday, December 9, 2019.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:45 PM EDT.


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