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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #900 on: May 30, 2017, 09:33:30 AM »
This American has a wife who describes his slow driving as "poodling along". I find it's use as describing a puddle rather charming after many years of my wife describing my driving to me. I will cease my own referencing it now as I take a bow to all the international people here who speak and write in English as I only can handle enough words in German after six years of living there to order a beer and get slapped after I have drunk it and say something uncouth to a fraulein at the bar. Instead I will be quiet and continue to learn about the Arctic from all of you.
That would be "pootling" along!

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #901 on: June 01, 2017, 10:07:11 PM »
a quite special and interesing atmosphere :-)

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #902 on: June 06, 2017, 08:48:11 PM »

Yenisei River in stark contrast!

https://go.nasa.gov/2sPcBJ5


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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #903 on: June 06, 2017, 09:00:10 PM »
pretty picture of the conversion to brash against low clouds north of Svalbaard
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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #904 on: June 06, 2017, 09:41:19 PM »
ice floes → brash ice → water → water vapor   :D
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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #905 on: June 07, 2017, 07:41:31 AM »
Excellent picture - it would be very interesting to know the SST of the waters in each represented area.

ice floes → brash ice → water → water vapor   :D

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #906 on: June 10, 2017, 10:50:56 AM »
a clear view of the lena delta at this time is always a spectacular sight.
https://go.nasa.gov/2s7lJf8
the dark lines aginst a white background are easy to understand, the white lines against a dark backround I find puzzling. Makes a beautiful picture I could look at for a long time.

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #907 on: June 10, 2017, 01:18:06 PM »
..., the white lines against a dark backround I find puzzling. ....
Just a guess (never been there  :) ) Grey/dark is sea ice flooded with meltwater from the river. White lines are ridges in the ice, still covered with snow?

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #908 on: June 10, 2017, 02:00:59 PM »
..., the white lines against a dark backround I find puzzling. ....
Just a guess (never been there  :) ) Grey/dark is sea ice flooded with meltwater from the river. White lines are ridges in the ice, still covered with snow?

My guess is the white lines are thicker ice in these estuary like channels.  The dark is low lying land that has become wet.  Since the ice in the channels is thicker it hasn't melted but surrounded with melt water, which extend like fingers onto the seaice.

I compared with a day in July last year.


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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #909 on: June 10, 2017, 02:07:05 PM »
My interpretation:  With flooding, the ice 'floating' on many of the channels stays on top of the water, whereas the flooded neighboring lowland just had snow that is now melted/washed away/saturated with muddy water.  When these ice ribbons break, they will form impressive ice dams. (Fabulous picture pair, Jay!)
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« Reply #910 on: June 10, 2017, 10:28:18 PM »
My guess is the white lines are thicker ice in these estuary like channels.  The dark is low lying land that has become wet.  ...
indeed. I was referring to the bottom left corner of the image. I think you are correct regarding the top right corner.... :)

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #911 on: June 12, 2017, 09:58:08 PM »
Looks like a giant polar bear watching towards Norway. Image: Worldview, June 12.

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« Reply #912 on: June 13, 2017, 07:16:13 AM »
My guess is the white lines are thicker ice in these estuary like channels.  The dark is low lying land that has become wet.  ...
indeed. I was referring to the bottom left corner of the image. I think you are correct regarding the top right corner.... :)

Jay's image is the bottom right corner.  I suspect the bottom left corner has the same cause.  It certainly looks weird though!! 

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #913 on: June 13, 2017, 05:02:40 PM »
someone was mentioning kimmirut as heavily delayed this year to make his point, don't remember the tread but considering the words i remember and that we are just 3 days later i'd say that this kind of delay, if any, is within a healty range due to weather conditions

the snow on the mountains "IS" almost gone and the ice will be gone within a few days as well, water is dark blue as compared to light blue ponds, hence what we see are micro leads if that term is allowed, at least i don't know any better one, ready to listen to a native who knows a better term for those "holes" in the ice.

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #914 on: June 14, 2017, 05:03:47 PM »
We are used to looking at open water, but this is odd because of where it is, off the corner of Greenland headed down the Fram, doomed to reach warm southern waters and then become, well uh, warmer water.
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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #915 on: June 14, 2017, 06:38:24 PM »
We are used to looking at open water, but this is odd because of where it is, off the corner of Greenland headed down the Fram, doomed to reach warm southern waters and then become, well uh, warmer water.

and what we see where ice still ice, counts as 100% Extent LOL while with a bit of bad luck ( or luck, depending LOL) the entire image could count as close to 100% ice covered, obviously without it being the case.

one could post images from all over the arctic nowadays and most of them look very similar to this one as far as ice quality and concentration is concerned.

i'd be very suprised if extent wouldn't drop lke a stone once the 15% are reached over millions of km2 at or close to the same time. let's see, just the entire place looks doomed taking about arctic sea ice only here.
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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #916 on: June 14, 2017, 06:57:30 PM »
 ???

https://go.nasa.gov/2tmG51r What does this look like? Ice that's one day away from melting and we see a 3 million sqkm extent drop tomorrow?
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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #917 on: June 14, 2017, 11:29:34 PM »
Open water visible offshore from Utqiagvik


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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #918 on: June 15, 2017, 04:49:57 PM »
Open water visible offshore from Utqiagvik

you are totally right just that its sounds like new while that open water is there for weeks already. you can crosscheck with sat-images a month back and even then there was mostly coastal ice (fast ice of some kind ) while farther out one was able to distinguish that dark shadow, at times it even shows in the cloud since the surface color has an impact of low clouds color.

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #919 on: June 15, 2017, 06:06:21 PM »
Hard to beat this one from O-Buoy 14. There's been some discussion of it on the What the buoys are telling thread.

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #920 on: June 15, 2017, 07:18:05 PM »
Open water visible offshore from Utqiagvik

Worldview captures large ice mass breaking off June 12th.
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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #921 on: June 15, 2017, 07:24:53 PM »
that was a bear grunting "land in sight" just to find out that it was a buoy :-)

no they really have to hurry to reach land in that direction before it's all gone

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #922 on: June 16, 2017, 02:07:28 AM »
I was looking at this image because of the interesting colors in the Bering Strait.   But then noticed the contrails in the lower left corner.

http://feeder.gina.alaska.edu/npp-gina-alaska-truecolor-images/2017_06_15_14_38_jd166
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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #923 on: June 16, 2017, 01:33:07 PM »
I was looking at this image because of the interesting colors in the Bering Strait.   But then noticed the contrails in the lower left corner.

http://feeder.gina.alaska.edu/npp-gina-alaska-truecolor-images/2017_06_15_14_38_jd166

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Those contrails are large enough to completely shroud the Diomede islands in what would appear to be fog. At present, it is also foggy in Utqiagvik. Worldview of the Bering Strait does not show as many contrails, but does show some. Further, worldview shows wispy clouds that could be the remnant of the contrail blasts shown in the image posted by Jay.

In addition to impressive imagery, the contrails that are being spotted raise questions as to whether or not they cause environmental impacts; and, if so, what are the impacts.


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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #924 on: June 17, 2017, 02:44:41 PM »
What just happened in the Kara Sea?

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #925 on: June 19, 2017, 12:26:58 PM »
The last bits of ice jarring onto Greenland...
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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #926 on: June 22, 2017, 10:15:43 AM »
Fires in Siberia. Multiple fires north of Lake Baikal. Some soot from these is sure to end up on the ice. It is unusually warm in the area, as the temperature anomaly map shows.





The smoke is getting worse. A huge pall of smoke:

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« Reply #927 on: June 23, 2017, 01:05:44 PM »
Smoke may heat the atmosphere but filters the sunlight. I always remember smoke taking the heat from early-season sunshine on a cool day. Soot on snow (with solar radiation) has the opposite effect, may compensate?

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #928 on: June 23, 2017, 04:52:36 PM »


Black carbon is regarded as a short lived climate pollutant, but there is some debate as to whether light particles offset the dark particles in smoke to inhibit GHG warming. See page 41 onward in the policy guidance document below:

https://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/shortlived/meetings/03142017/final_slcp_report.pdf

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #929 on: June 24, 2017, 01:44:45 AM »
cross posted in the buoys thread but could be  an image of the day as well

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #930 on: June 24, 2017, 02:26:49 AM »

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #931 on: June 27, 2017, 11:27:40 PM »
I am dreaming of the North Pole and Central Arctic Basin full of round ice floes with no square shapes to be seen anymore. Today's thin sea ice in the CAB is no longer capable to survive intact when sea ice floes toss each other (due to winds and ocean currents), turning them all round.   ??? Perfect example: https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?p=arctic&l=VIIRS_SNPP_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor(hidden),MODIS_Aqua_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor(hidden),MODIS_Terra_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor,Graticule,Reference_Labels(hidden),Reference_Features(hidden),Coastlines&t=2017-06-27&z=3&v=433591.2246794036,-507290.4474063759,695735.2246794036,-342170.4474063759
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« Reply #932 on: June 28, 2017, 02:30:16 AM »
I am dreaming of the North Pole and Central Arctic Basin full of round ice floes with no square shapes to be seen anymore. Today's thin sea ice in the CAB is no longer capable to survive intact when sea ice floes toss each other (due to winds and ocean currents), turning them all ....
Deli, you may have accidentally found the single largest surviving block of ice in the CAB...
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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #933 on: June 28, 2017, 08:30:13 AM »
I am dreaming of the North Pole and Central Arctic Basin full of round ice floes with no square shapes to be seen anymore. Today's thin sea ice in the CAB is no longer capable to survive intact when sea ice floes toss each other (due to winds and ocean currents), turning them all ....
Deli, you may have accidentally found the single largest surviving block of ice in the CAB...

That's a depressing thought. Perhaps they will put it in the ice museum...

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #934 on: June 28, 2017, 10:17:01 PM »
Tic Tac Toe over the Beaufort Sea, or does 'X' mark the spot?
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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #935 on: June 29, 2017, 09:11:49 PM »
Smoke may heat the atmosphere but filters the sunlight. I always remember smoke taking the heat from early-season sunshine on a cool day. Soot on snow (with solar radiation) has the opposite effect, may compensate?

There is an interesting science brief from the GISS about fossil carbon soots and organic carbon soots :
https://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/bauer_01/

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #936 on: June 29, 2017, 10:46:19 PM »
Utqiagvik webcam appears to be down. Is there soot in the air there?

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #937 on: June 30, 2017, 12:48:24 AM »
The last remnants of sea ice in the Hudson Bay (the island is Mansel Island).

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #938 on: June 30, 2017, 12:52:44 AM »
Ghostly patterns of melting ice in Ungava Bay.

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #939 on: June 30, 2017, 01:47:45 AM »
Utqiagvik webcam appears to be down. Is there soot in the air there?

cam has been up all day and is up now, of course it can be down for a short time but usually, before reporting cam down i usually check again a few times, often it's temporary and just bad luck, so if you didn't see yet, cam is up now (1 minute ago) just in case you still want to have a look and did not already ;)

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« Reply #940 on: June 30, 2017, 01:49:55 AM »
The last remnants of sea ice in the Hudson Bay (the island is Mansel Island).


thanks for the nice image

since each year someone was talking about several meter thick multiyear ice in hudson i for sure will make and save a screenshot of the empty hudson this season to post as a reply next year.
at least i'm totally sure that there will be no ice left in hudson and certainly not several meter thick MYI

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #941 on: July 01, 2017, 10:37:47 AM »
just another kind of graph than the ones we're all used to see :-)

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #942 on: July 01, 2017, 07:27:05 PM »
Duck or dragon? Hopen island today

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #943 on: July 01, 2017, 07:32:10 PM »
Duckanado !!! Another made-for-TV movie coming to cable tv forever!!!
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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #944 on: July 01, 2017, 07:53:49 PM »
Awesome.  ;D
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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #945 on: July 02, 2017, 12:29:13 AM »
Meltponds southern part of Greenland. Never having seen sea ice in my life, I was quite excited the sky was clear.

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #946 on: July 02, 2017, 12:33:46 AM »
Gletcher from Greenland, close to the Labrador sea. I don't know if it has a name.

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #947 on: July 02, 2017, 02:00:25 PM »
Spotted this on EOSDIS in the Kara Sea. Anyone care a guess to the hexagon shape of the image.

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #948 on: July 02, 2017, 02:28:28 PM »
The lower two sides are defined by cracks in the ice, while the other four, curiously, are defined by cloud edges.  (I have visited cloud image blogs, and there are amazing shapes and textures out there!) [Is this The Great Juju having some fun?]
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« Reply #949 on: July 02, 2017, 05:34:36 PM »