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Jøkelbugt / North East Greenland
« on: April 20, 2013, 06:08:10 PM »
Action is coming to Jøkelbugt:

A big piece of sea ice went off today/yesterday off Isle De France (Now off. Prince Henriks Ø):

http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/imagery/subsets/?subset=Arctic_r02c03.2013110.terra.250m
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Re: Jøkelbugt/North East Greenland
« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2013, 11:53:46 AM »
Flade Is Blink / North East Greenland;

Although not exactly in the Jøkelbugt area, but a "bit" North, the action is continuing, a big piece of sea ice took off from the eastern point of Flade Isblink, the whole area will be interesting to watch over the next couple of weeks!

http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/imagery/single.cgi?image=crefl2_143.A2013111053500-2013111054000.1km.jpg
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Re: Jøkelbugt/North East Greenland
« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2013, 05:59:05 PM »
I noticed that too, Espen. I make it aboubt 6,000 sq km, or about 0.75 Corsicas (Neven established the Corsica a few years ago as the standard measure for large events :) ).

It looks like the stretch from there down to Shannon Island (maybe 10,000 sq km in total) is fairly thin and weak - seems likely to break up quite soon.

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Re: Jøkelbugt/North East Greenland
« Reply #3 on: April 22, 2013, 10:40:00 PM »
Big action around Jøkelbugt and Dove, the ice is getting beaten up:

http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/imagery/subsets/?subset=Arctic_r02c03.2013112.terra

I think we will see a ice free area around July, and it will be interesting to follow how Zachariea and 79 will react, and will this season be the last for Spaltegletscher?
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Re: Jøkelbugt/North East Greenland
« Reply #4 on: May 08, 2013, 06:19:56 PM »
The turquoise color often seen last year, now appears in several places on land in the Jøkelbugt / Dove area:

250 m image:
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/imagery/single.cgi?image=crefl2_143.A2013128125000-2013128125500.250m.jpg

4 km image:
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/imagery/subsets/?subset=Arctic_r02c03.2013128.aqua
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Re: Jøkelbugt/North East Greenland
« Reply #5 on: May 08, 2013, 06:56:10 PM »
Spring tide comes to Greenland today & tomorrow. Watch for fast ice drifting away from shore in the next few days.


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Re: Jøkelbugt/North East Greenland
« Reply #6 on: May 08, 2013, 07:10:51 PM »
Spring tide comes to Greenland today & tomorrow. Watch for fast ice drifting away from shore in the next few days.


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Re: Jøkelbugt/North East Greenland
« Reply #7 on: May 13, 2013, 11:20:07 AM »
The last remaining fast ice around Nordøstrundingen / Flade Isblink is now been "peeled" of :

http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/imagery/single.cgi?image=crefl2_143.A2013133050000-2013133050500.250m.jpg
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Re: Jøkelbugt/North East Greenland
« Reply #8 on: June 07, 2013, 11:24:51 AM »
The break up of sea ice off Jøkelbugt is speeding up, a large piece of sea ice broke away since yesterday right outside 79 Fjords Glacier:

http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/imagery/single.cgi?image=crefl2_143.A2013158063000-2013158063500.250m.jpg
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Re: Jøkelbugt/North East Greenland
« Reply #9 on: June 10, 2013, 10:15:02 AM »
Another big piece of sea ice took off outside Germania Land and Danmarkshavn today.
Aprox. 1500 km2

http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/imagery/single.cgi?image=crefl2_143.A2013161052500-2013161053000.2km.jpg
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Re: Jøkelbugt/North East Greenland
« Reply #10 on: June 11, 2013, 07:41:00 PM »
Checking forth and back, I believe the On-Shore melt is something like 20 days ahead of 2012.
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Re: Jøkelbugt/North East Greenland
« Reply #11 on: June 13, 2013, 04:33:28 PM »
I prefer to get the imagery, more choices at
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/modis.uk.php
Looking at Landsat images of this area today.

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Re: Jøkelbugt/North East Greenland
« Reply #12 on: June 18, 2013, 01:34:23 PM »
New post on 79 Glacier with imagery from this week. <a href="http://glacierchange.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/nioghalvfjerdsbrae-79-glacier-northeast-greenland/">79 Glacier</a>.

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Re: Jøkelbugt/North East Greenland
« Reply #13 on: June 18, 2013, 05:02:07 PM »

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Re: Jøkelbugt/North East Greenland
« Reply #14 on: June 23, 2013, 10:01:03 PM »
Update Jøkelbugt June 2013:

What can we expect in the Jøkelbugt area this season, we may get back to the situation in the early 2000s when Jøkelbugt was more or less sea ice free, the reason why I believe this could happen is due to the little sea ice we receive from the Fram Strait (export) 2013, I expect the sea temperature will be relatively higher this season and with that more (fast) sea ice melting. The last 10 years we have seen the fast ice was grounded due to the shallow water of Belgica Bank, this may not be so this season and we may see the same situation as seen below on the image from 2003.
Note the fairly big retreat of Spaltegletscher, during the past 10 years ( 6 - 8 km).
Both the Nioghalvfjerdsbræ (79) and Zachariae Isstrøm, is more or less the same, the tongue of the latter is in the process of being separated south of Lambert Land though.
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Re: Jøkelbugt/North East Greenland
« Reply #15 on: June 24, 2013, 02:32:34 PM »
The fast ice of Jøkelbugt is changing color now from white to turquoise, a clear sign of melting.
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Re: Jøkelbugt / North East Greenland
« Reply #16 on: July 11, 2013, 12:15:51 PM »
Another big sized piece of fast ice will soon be released from the pack:


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Re: Jøkelbugt / North East Greenland
« Reply #17 on: July 11, 2013, 02:03:09 PM »
Cracking is seen better now, a bit Photoshop stuff added ;)
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Re: Jøkelbugt / North East Greenland
« Reply #18 on: July 11, 2013, 06:31:37 PM »
And now the real craks without Photoshop assistance ;):
 
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Re: Jøkelbugt / North East Greenland
« Reply #19 on: July 11, 2013, 06:48:43 PM »
Wow, Photoshop really is powerful software, Espen! ;)
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Re: Jøkelbugt / North East Greenland
« Reply #20 on: July 11, 2013, 06:53:18 PM »
Neven, yes  it is too powerful sometimes! :-\

It is only a 2800 km2 job!
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Re: Jøkelbugt / North East Greenland
« Reply #21 on: July 12, 2013, 09:18:42 AM »
Moving a bit from yesterday:
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Re: Jøkelbugt / North East Greenland
« Reply #22 on: July 21, 2013, 07:35:44 PM »
More sea ice coming apart:
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Re: Jøkelbugt / North East Greenland
« Reply #23 on: July 24, 2013, 09:20:38 AM »
More break up:

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Re: Jøkelbugt / North East Greenland
« Reply #24 on: July 25, 2013, 02:34:24 AM »
Big Berg, north east water, and further fracturing of land-fast ice...
Complete with algal bloom in the north of the shot??
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Re: Jøkelbugt / North East Greenland
« Reply #25 on: July 25, 2013, 08:33:11 AM »
JMO,

Yes it is big, but not a berg but a ice island (fast ice).
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Re: Jøkelbugt / North East Greenland
« Reply #26 on: July 25, 2013, 11:02:57 AM »
Break down of fast ice in the North East is in full progress:

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Re: Jøkelbugt / North East Greenland
« Reply #27 on: July 25, 2013, 01:43:12 PM »
Thanks, Espen, for that information.  I almost asked a day or two ago how old the remaining fast ice is.  Shoreward of the 2003 area (now 10-year old ice), are some of the ice shelfs in this area ancient?
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Re: Jøkelbugt / North East Greenland
« Reply #28 on: July 25, 2013, 03:42:27 PM »
Tor,

Ancient? No, not along the East Coast of Greenland, but there may be a spot or 2 on the North Coast, Hunt Fjord may be one of them?
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Re: Jøkelbugt / North East Greenland
« Reply #29 on: July 25, 2013, 04:30:50 PM »
Espen,
I recall your posting the graphic of the remaining bits and pieces of the Ellesmere Ice Shelf (https://forum.arctic-sea-ice.net/index.php/topic,219.0.html) in Canada.
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Re: Jøkelbugt / North East Greenland
« Reply #30 on: July 25, 2013, 04:38:11 PM »
Tor;

No there is a Hunt Fjord in the very north of Greenland, Johannes V. Jensen Land, I suspect there is a Ice Shelf in there, but not 100% sure, have not been there lately ;).
Not to be mixed up with Ward Hunt in Canada (Ellesmere Island).
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Re: Jøkelbugt / North East Greenland
« Reply #31 on: July 26, 2013, 08:55:09 AM »
Further break up of fast ice this time just north- west of Isle de France, a nice big piece, the crack is enhanced by image editor, sorry for the poor quality of the image it only a prelim swath image:
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Re: Jøkelbugt / North East Greenland
« Reply #32 on: July 26, 2013, 05:59:59 PM »
Jøkelbugt and Tobias Ø:

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Re: Jøkelbugt / North East Greenland
« Reply #33 on: July 26, 2013, 06:00:07 PM »
Jøkelbugt and Tobias Ø (aprox. 2 km2):

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Tobias Ø (Island)
First observed in 1907.
First proven existence in
1998 by Gereon Budeus.
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Re: Jøkelbugt / North East Greenland
« Reply #34 on: July 26, 2013, 11:10:02 PM »
This is the first sign of open water near buoy 2012M. 2012M has shown 55cm of surface melt in the past 30 days or so. Going, going, going....

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Re: Jøkelbugt / North East Greenland
« Reply #35 on: July 28, 2013, 11:51:36 AM »
More breakup of fast Ice:
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Re: Jøkelbugt / North East Greenland
« Reply #36 on: July 29, 2013, 05:08:24 PM »
Update ice:


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Re: Jøkelbugt / North East Greenland
« Reply #37 on: July 30, 2013, 04:48:48 PM »
Update ice:


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Re: Jøkelbugt / North East Greenland
« Reply #38 on: July 30, 2013, 08:33:29 PM »
More action in Jøkelbugt this afternoon, cracks are seen now in many places.

I am pretty sure now that we will see Jøkelbugt free of fast-ice by the end of this melting season.

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« Reply #39 on: July 31, 2013, 11:11:46 AM »
More action in Jøkelbugt and there will be a lot to watch over the next coming days:

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Re: Jøkelbugt / North East Greenland
« Reply #40 on: July 31, 2013, 04:12:02 PM »
Fast Ice / Jøkelbugt:

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Re: Jøkelbugt / North East Greenland
« Reply #41 on: August 01, 2013, 05:57:05 PM »
Fast Ice / Jøkelbugt:

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Re: Jøkelbugt / North East Greenland
« Reply #42 on: August 06, 2013, 10:40:34 PM »
From DMI:

An iceberg (island) named Topp supposedly "born" in the Jøkelbugt area, is now located south of Greenland, and passed Kap Farvel already, I will report more on this when back from my travel.
The article is in Danish, please a translating tools:
http://www.dmi.dk/nyheder/arkiv/nyheder-2013/8/isbjerget-topp-passerer-groenlands-bund/
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Re: Jøkelbugt / North East Greenland
« Reply #43 on: August 07, 2013, 06:10:43 PM »
Tried to upload yesterday in Praha, but line to bad. I will try this time from Leipzig:

As you can see from the image below, the whole area of fast ice  in Jøkelbugt in now broken up into zones, this is by the way the last fast ice in North Eastern Greenland , depending on how long the melting season will last this season and refreeze begins it will be be very interesting to follow.

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Re: Jøkelbugt / North East Greenland
« Reply #44 on: August 16, 2013, 04:45:15 PM »
Fast ice update North East Greenland: The Belgica Bank fast ice is being reduced and the Zacharia x-tongue is elevated to fast ice status:
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Re: Jøkelbugt / North East Greenland
« Reply #45 on: August 16, 2013, 06:47:08 PM »
Espen,
I notice your name is occasionally on the images, just as a glacier or island name is occasionally included.  I imagine looking at an enlargement of the image and seeing you right there! :)

Related to what you wrote, I imagine this x-tongue now fast ice might be quite thick.  But I don't know whether to image in my mind 15 m thick or 150 m thick ice.  Do you know?

(If I'd attended my 2nd choice graduate school in the 70's, I would have done field work on Greenland, and would maybe have answers to my wunderings.  But I went south instead.)
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Re: Jøkelbugt / North East Greenland
« Reply #46 on: August 16, 2013, 06:52:43 PM »
Hi Tor,

I believe the x-tongue, now fast ice, will remain there for many years, the only difference now is it will not be supplied with new ice from Mummy (Zachariae). And will be attacked from 2 fronts.
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Re: Jøkelbugt / North East Greenland
« Reply #47 on: August 20, 2013, 11:36:59 AM »
The remaining fast ice located of Jøkelbugt is at least going to be halved there is a large crack right in the middle of "ice island", if all this fast ice will start to move, it will be the first time in about 10 years.

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Re: Jøkelbugt / North East Greenland
« Reply #48 on: August 21, 2013, 11:12:25 AM »
Fast ice update:
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Re: Jøkelbugt / North East Greenland
« Reply #49 on: August 22, 2013, 03:28:47 PM »
It seems like it is the eastern part (with a cross) that is moving, I believe the rest is either anchored to the bottom (Belgica Bank / shallow water) or to Tobias Island.

http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias_%C3%98

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias_Island
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