Wednesday, 12 August 2015

Cameras recording ice melt at North Pole

The melting ice at Greenland



The older ice is melting and pulling away from Canada and Greenland. The land that the ice has been up against has been anchoring much of the Arctic ice in place. 

Here is a view from buoy 9 that is on the North East corner of Greenland



North Pole Cam 1
as of 2015-08-12 07:27:55 UTC



North Pole Cam 2
as of 2015-08-12 07:27:55 UTC


This experimental product of sea ice thickness is calculated from AMSR-E and AMSR2 data by using a research algorithm developed by K. Tateyama (Kitami Institute of Technology).



More details at Arctic.io

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