Daily Arctic Sea Ice, By Year

  • Released Monday, November 28, 2022
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This visualization shows the daily Arctic sea ice and seasonal land cover change progressing through time, with a single frame rendered for each day (available from the drop-down of each image window), and an animation created from these frames.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) provides many water-related products derived from data acquired by the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2) instrument aboard the Global Change Observation Mission 1st-Water "SHIZUKU" (GCOM-W1) satellite. Two JAXA datasets are used in this animation: the 10-km daily sea ice concentration and the 10 km daily 89 GHz Brightness Temperature.

In this visualization sea ice changes from day to day, with the amount of ice shown being determined by the AMSR2 sea ice concentration data. A running 3-day minimum is used, with a minimum threshhold concentration of 15%. The blueish white color of the sea ice is derived from a 3-day running minimum of the AMSR2 89 GHz brightness temperature. Over the terrain, monthly data from the seasonal Blue Marble Next Generation fades slowly from month to month.

The numerical portion of the frame filename begins with the four-digit year, followed by the three-digit day of the year for that frame.

Arctic daily sea ice, two years from present, with dates

2024 Arctic daily sea ice with date

2024 Arctic daily sea ice

2023 Arctic daily sea ice with date

2023 Arctic daily sea ice

2022 Arctic daily sea ice with date

2022 Arctic daily sea ice

2021 Arctic daily sea ice with date

2021 Arctic daily sea ice

2023 date frames, for compositing

2023 date frames, for compositing

2022 date frames, for compositing

2022 date frames, for compositing

2021 date frames, for compositing

2021 date frames, for compositing

Credits

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio

This page was originally published on Monday, November 28, 2022.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, November 20, 2024 at 12:16 AM EST.

Datasets used

  • BMNG (Blue Marble: Next Generation) [Terra and Aqua: MODIS]

    ID: 508
    Sensor: MODIS

    Credit: The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).

    This dataset can be found at: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/

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  • 10 km Daily Sea Ice Concentration [SHIZUKU (GCOM-W1): AMSR2]

    ID: 795
    Type: Observed Data Sensor: AMSR2 Collected by: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

    Credit: AMSR2 data courtesy of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).

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  • 10 km Daily 89 GHz Brightness Temperature [SHIZUKU (GCOM-W1): AMSR2]

    ID: 796
    Type: Observed Data Sensor: AMSR2 Collected by: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

    Credit: AMSR2 data courtesy of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).

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