Earth ID: 11823

NASA On Air: Great Lakes Ice Time Lapse - Winter 2013 to 2014 (3/25/2015)

Released on March 25, 2015

LEAD: Instruments aboard NASA satellites are able to track the winter ice growth and retreat across the Great Lakes.

1. Changes in lake ice within a six-month period between 2013 and 2014 can be seen in 18 seconds.

2. The maximum ice extent occurred on March 6, 2014 and covered 92% of the Great Lakes.

3. It was the second most extensive ice cover of the past 40 years of satellite observations.

TAG: The ice in eastern Lake Superior reached a thickness of three and a half feet, which disrupted shipping routes.

For More Information

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/national/2014/13

Credits

Howard Joe Witte (ADNET): Producer
Dorothy Hall (NASA/GSFC): Lead Scientist
George Leshkevich (NOAA): Lead Scientist
Son Nghiem (NASA/JPL CalTech): Scientist
Cindy Starr (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Data Visualizer
Laurence Schuler (ADNET Systems, Inc.): Technical Support
Ian Jones (ADNET Systems, Inc.): Technical Support
Joy Ng (USRA): Video Editor

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

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Keywords:
DLESE >> Cryology
SVS >> HDTV
SVS >> Ice
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Atmosphere >> Precipitation >> Snow
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Cryosphere >> Snow/Ice >> Ice Extent
GCMD >> Location >> Great Lakes
NASA Science >> Earth

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0