Sea Ice: Thickness and Volume Matter - It’s not just the surface area of sea ice covering the Arctic that matters — the thickness and overall volume of the ice play a critical role in just how stable the ice pack is and how it affects global climatic systems. This video contains an animation comparing the difference in the area, volume and depth of the average September Arctic sea ice between 1979, shown in blue, and 2013, shown in orange. Video by Jefferson Beck. Animation by the Scientific Visualization Studio at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. - Learn more at nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasa-perspective-four-decades-of-sea-ice-from-space-the-future/#.VGP6XBaRnzI Learn more about the video at svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=10186
Posted on: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 04:09:54 +0000
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