Rink Glacier Multi-Year Surface Elevation Comparison

This visualization explores 25 years of elevation measurements from the Airborne Topographic Mapper over the Rink glacier in Greenland. Each year is color-coded with blues representing the oldest data and red representing the newest. The camera zooms in to a view comparing data collected from many aircraft flights over the same region, showing the ice loss over several years. The camera then zooms out to see the coverage pattern for ICESat-2, which will study ice loss on a global scale.
This video is also available on our YouTube channel.

This visualization explores 25 years of elevation measurements from the Airborne Topographic Mapper over the Rink glacier in Greenland. Each year is color-coded with blues representing the oldest data and red representing the newest. The camera zooms in to a view comparing data collected from many aircraft flights over the same region, showing the ice loss over several years. The camera then zooms out to see the coverage pattern for ICESat-2, which will study ice loss on a global scale. This version has no dates or legends.

Print Still - 25 years of elevation measurements over the Rink glacier, color coded by year. Each line represents data recorded during an airfract flight over the glacier.

Print Still - 25 years of elevation measurements over the Rink glacier, color coded by year.

Print Still - 25 years of elevation measurements over the Rink glacier, color coded by year.

Print Still - Side view of elevation data, color coded by year

Print Still - Side view of elevation data from 1993 (blue) and 2015 (red)

Print Still - Side view of elevation data from 1993 (blue) and 2015 (red). Surface is aproximated by shading/highlighting.

Print Still - ICESat-2 orbit and ground tracks showing global coverage.

Color coded year legend.

Dates used in the composited video at the top of this page