Tagged: IceBridge

Cracked PIG spawns big berg - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • Nov 03, 2011 •

• Antarctica,
• Climate Science,
• IceBridge,
• NASA,
• Pine Island Glacier

NASA’s IceBridge operation for this Antarctic summer has discovered that the Pine Island Glacier is in the process of calving a massive iceberg — 880 square kilometres of the floating glacier tongue is about to go floatabout, leaving the glacier snout shorter than any time since its position was first recorded in the 1940s. The [...] … Read More

Arctic sea ice maximum reached, melt starts - Hot Topic

Gareth Renowden • Apr 07, 2010 •

• arctic,
• Climate Science,
• IceBridge,
• NASA,
• NSIDC,
• sea ice

Arctic winter sea ice extent reached its maximum on March 31st, the latest date since satellite records began in 1979 according to the latest sea ice update from the National Snow and Ice Data Centre. The maximum extent was 15.25 million square kilometers. The NASA image above shows the ice extent on March 6th, before [...] … Read More