Earth ID: 12403

Arctic Sea Ice Age 2016 with VO from Walt Meier

Released on October 28, 2016

Arctic sea ice, the vast sheath of frozen seawater floating on the Arctic Ocean and its neighboring seas, has been hit with a double whammy over the past decades: as its extent shrunk, the oldest and thickest ice has either thinned or melted away, leaving the sea ice cap more vulnerable to the warming ocean and atmosphere. This video, narrated by NASA Goddard sea ice researcher Walt Meier, shows how sea ice age has decreased during the last three decades.

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Credits

Jefferson Beck (USRA): Lead Producer
Cindy Starr (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Lead Visualizer
Walt Meier (NASA/GSFC): Lead Scientist

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Keywords:
SVS >> Climate
SVS >> Sea Ice
GCMD >> Location >> Arctic
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