Jakobshavn Glacier Calving Front Recession Updated (2001-2004)
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 2004. This animation is updated from #3053 and now includes the fall 2004 calving front derived from Terra/ASTER data.
Updated animation showing the calving front recession from 2001 to 2004.
Newly updated print resolution image showing the retreat of Jakobshavns calving front from 2001 to 2004.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center - Scientific Visualization Studio, and Goddard TV
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Animators
- Alex Kekesi (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
- Horace Mitchell (NASA/GSFC)
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Video editor
- Rich Melnick (HTSI)
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Scientist
- Waleed Abdalati (NASA/HQ)
Release date
This page was originally published on Monday, December 13, 2004.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:56 PM EDT.
Datasets used
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[Terra: ASTER]
ID: 113This dataset can be found at: http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov
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Band Combination 3-2-1 [Landsat-7: ETM+]
ID: 340This dataset can be found at: http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/about/wrs.html
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