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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #250 on: April 28, 2014, 08:54:33 AM »
Swirling ice off the East coast of Greenland, October 2012.



From NASA Earth Observatory:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=79521&eocn=image&eoci=related_image

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #251 on: April 29, 2014, 10:06:43 AM »
Jumping auroral dog over Alaska.



From NASA's Astronomical Picture of the Day.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140429.html

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #252 on: May 05, 2014, 09:12:47 PM »
The Sauna and Ice Pool service at Kap Jackson (Washington Land, North West Greenland) is now open for business:
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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #253 on: May 05, 2014, 10:52:58 PM »
Nice detail, Espen, that bathtub always appears first in Nares' spring, doesn't it?

I liked todays trembling atmosphere in the wake of the De Long Islands, N of the Novosibirskye Ostrova:



Bennett Island always ripples best being 426 m high, but today Henrietta and Jeannette Islands joined through their 315 and 351 m rocky outcrops.

I wonder if the wide stress lead along the East Siberian Continental Plain plays a role. The southern winds crossing them pick up moisture over there (see the upper right corner). It condenses when the top of the boundary layer is lifted over these cliffs.

In that case, it is a sign of spring and anomalous moisture spreading over the sea ice...

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #254 on: May 09, 2014, 09:26:29 PM »
Jan Mayen:

Beerenberg the world's northernmost subaerial active volcano is here seen thru the clouds.

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #255 on: May 11, 2014, 10:06:59 AM »
A Harp seal in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Not actually taken in the Arctic, but it could have been, so wth.




http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day/harp-seal-ice-madeleine-islands/

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #256 on: May 14, 2014, 11:50:48 AM »
Detail of the McKenzie River delta as seen by Landsat 8 on May 10.

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #257 on: May 14, 2014, 03:15:49 PM »
Wipneus.....interesting snow cover pattern (I'm assuming that's what I am seeing.).

Is this pattern caused by patches of open water in the delta, still covered with ice and snow, which are surrounded by less wet and perhaps vegetated areas?

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« Reply #258 on: May 16, 2014, 08:39:34 AM »
Wipneus.....interesting snow cover pattern (I'm assuming that's what I am seeing.).

Is this pattern caused by patches of open water in the delta, still covered with ice and snow, which are surrounded by less wet and perhaps vegetated areas?

Possbly that's frozen marshland, the more solid patches of ground have lost their snow...
Image is pretty though.

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #259 on: May 17, 2014, 08:38:45 PM »
A rare sighting, Bouvet Island the most remote island and controlled by Norway.
By the way it is the national day of Norway (May 17th):

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

93 % of the island is covered by a glacier, I wonder if Mauri covered this one?
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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #260 on: May 18, 2014, 10:17:24 AM »
A well fed Polar Bear, from National Geographic  Photo of the Day.

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #261 on: May 18, 2014, 11:49:01 AM »
A well fed Polar Bear, from National Geographic  Photo of the Day.

Where did they find that? Did they have to drag one up from the archives?
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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #262 on: May 18, 2014, 11:55:08 AM »
Just a warning.
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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #263 on: May 24, 2014, 01:29:29 PM »
Lena river delta melting looks like a piece of art.

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #264 on: May 24, 2014, 01:34:49 PM »
Lena river delta melting looks like a piece of art.

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It looks like false color lava flows to me, certainly beautiful.

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #265 on: May 24, 2014, 04:22:12 PM »
Awesome sculpture by Cordal in Berlin called "Politicians discussing global warming."

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #266 on: May 26, 2014, 05:05:56 PM »
The Ellesmere Shore lead crosses Nares Strait entrance, develops further cracks northwards

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #267 on: May 26, 2014, 11:24:38 PM »
First thing I noticed as well when the Lance Modis opened the "curtains" of today! Very massive scale, I Guess we can't blame a herd of Narewhales for this incident ;D. Will be extremely exicting to see if this cracking will continue and even more to observe if these openings will continue to grow and allow the sunrays to heat up the darker water in between the ice :).
My fancy for ice & glaciers started in 1995:-).

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #268 on: May 29, 2014, 06:45:23 AM »
Ice in the port of Churchill is looking pretty rotten now.  Shows up in the live camera feed.

http://www.omnitrax.com/media-center/portofchurchillcamerafeeds


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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #269 on: June 09, 2014, 09:57:29 AM »
The last remaining sea ice in the sea of Okhotsk for this season:
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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #270 on: June 11, 2014, 07:12:24 AM »
What do you see here?
Well, what I see is a lake (the Laptev bite), with kind of the shape and possibly the size of the United Kingdom Island, in a place that we would not dreamed ten years ago. But the Arctic sea ice is OK. At 2014 we are far from reaching the 2012 record, so we have to wait until all the Arctic sea ice is gone, in order to believe that AGW is happening. Anyway, thanks to Global Warming, we have new maritime routes at the Arctic.
Yes, I am being sarcastic. Isn't this reality bad enough? We should wait until the permafrost will melt, releasing methane and CO2? In my opinion, this waiting time until we reach another record is a waste of time. There should be a special place on this forum with the name "We ought to..."
« Last Edit: June 11, 2014, 02:12:24 PM by Juan C. García »
Which is the best answer to Sep-2012 ASI lost (compared to 1979-2000)?
50% [NSIDC Extent] or
73% [PIOMAS Volume]

Volume is harder to measure than extent, but 3-dimensional space is real, 2D's hide ~50% thickness gone.
-> IPCC/NSIDC trends [based on extent] underestimate the real speed of ASI lost.

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #272 on: June 12, 2014, 05:41:30 AM »
Thanks for the link, trebuh.
In a way, you show me I am right in my comment.
It is true that we had an important Laptev bite at 1990, but the sea ice at 1990 was strong, so it didn´t develop the way it is going to develop at 2014. On the other hand, if we check the other years, there was not an important Laptev bite until 2007 and 2012 (2009 has no data).
In a way, I am dissapointed that I asked for an action in this forum and some forum users answered that we should not have "we ought to..." proposals on this forum.
Surely I was not active enough. I should push harder.
Anyway, the true is that at 2013, the IPCC was critized for exagerating AWG, when my point of view is that it is the other way around.

What do you think? Do you agree that the IPCC models, as they are right now, are worthless? Would you like to make the effort to include a PIOMAS volume forecast on the USA Third Climate Assessment Report?
Which is the best answer to Sep-2012 ASI lost (compared to 1979-2000)?
50% [NSIDC Extent] or
73% [PIOMAS Volume]

Volume is harder to measure than extent, but 3-dimensional space is real, 2D's hide ~50% thickness gone.
-> IPCC/NSIDC trends [based on extent] underestimate the real speed of ASI lost.

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #273 on: June 18, 2014, 05:20:25 AM »
contrast-enhanced MODIS-image of an arctic specialty, poorly defined mesoscale cyclone (weak 'polar low') inside an otherwise uniform cloud cover (or that's my interpretation). They do not usually produce significant worsening of weather conditions, if they're the same that pass Finland occasionally, rather you note thicker clouds and a slight increase in precipitation and winds, lasting at max some 15-30minutes, or these happening a couple of times during the snow event. ('tuisku' or 'tomakka' we might call the stronger ones in finland, the 4th worst type of snowstorms that some people still enjoy)

resolution 250m/px so the system size is just 75km :-)
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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #274 on: June 19, 2014, 12:51:33 PM »


Nice shot of the inshore ice at Barrow breaking up and drifting off-shore

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #275 on: June 20, 2014, 09:40:40 PM »
One of the great scenes of Greenland: The 5 Star:
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« Reply #276 on: June 20, 2014, 10:23:48 PM »


Nice shot of the inshore ice at Barrow breaking up and drifting off-shore

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #277 on: June 21, 2014, 12:31:11 AM »

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #278 on: June 21, 2014, 06:47:20 AM »
Forget image of the day. That one gets my vote for image of the year. Maybe the decade. Awesome.

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« Reply #279 on: June 22, 2014, 06:28:07 PM »

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #280 on: June 23, 2014, 06:00:35 PM »
ESA Sentinel-1 images Disco Bay on 7.6.2014 (misses Jakobshaven though for now):


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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #281 on: June 24, 2014, 07:25:06 AM »
Wildfires near Great Bear Lake:

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« Reply #282 on: June 24, 2014, 07:47:10 AM »
The same as above but using the 7-2-1 bands on Aqua/MODIS:

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« Reply #283 on: June 24, 2014, 02:36:33 PM »
Great Bear Lake is the largest lake entirely in Canada, the fourth largest in North America, and the eighth largest in the world.

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« Reply #284 on: June 24, 2014, 02:54:40 PM »
Just what the AIS and Greenland need this year........lower albedo from wildfires..... :P
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« Reply #285 on: June 25, 2014, 12:08:57 PM »
Just what the AIS and Greenland need this year........lower albedo from wildfires..... :P
Wildfires must be a rather regular thing in the Arctic during summer.

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« Reply #286 on: June 25, 2014, 06:21:17 PM »
Just what the AIS and Greenland need this year........lower albedo from wildfires..... :P
Wildfires must be a rather regular thing in the Arctic during summer.
Localized, yes. generalized, and at this scale, no. This is a new phenomena, directly tied to increased high latitude heat and drying.
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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #287 on: June 26, 2014, 05:48:39 PM »
Further breakup underway at Barrow
3582_radar-uaf-barrow-seaice-images_2014-6-25_1-day-animation.mp4

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #288 on: June 29, 2014, 10:38:49 AM »
Break up at Kimmirut:


http://www.kimmirutweather.com/
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« Reply #289 on: June 29, 2014, 06:15:04 PM »
http://www.kimmirutweather.com/webcam.jpg

what a difference in only a few hours ! And temps of 10.2'C ..
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« Reply #290 on: June 29, 2014, 09:31:45 PM »
what a difference in only a few hours ! And temps of 10.2'C ..

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« Reply #291 on: July 02, 2014, 08:45:18 AM »
This sequence in Nares is pretty extraordinary...







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« Reply #292 on: July 02, 2014, 10:17:50 AM »
Looking at that this morning, the thing that struck me was how quickly the shards of ice shrink as they are ejected to the south west - ice islands the size of Manhattan just vanish in a couple of days.

On a peripherally related note... I think maybe there's a flip side to the lack of Fram transport over the past few weeks. If the sun is shining on all that open NA/GS water, and there's no ice melt to cool it, is it just storing up heat which will either end up either migrating west under the ice - melting as it goes on the one hand, or causing rapid melt of future
eastward-migrating ice on the other?

Trying to think of a way that sunshine on open water doesn't store up trouble for later - but rolling a doughnut here...

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #293 on: July 02, 2014, 12:26:12 PM »

Anybody fancy a golf day in the Arctic?


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« Reply #294 on: July 02, 2014, 12:35:58 PM »
Not sure I'd want to risk losing the golf ball in all those water traps.

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The difference a few days make..
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« Reply #295 on: July 02, 2014, 01:38:11 PM »

Anybody fancy a golf day in the Arctic?

Hey Seattlerocks,
That's my mini-cyclone on this thread:

A detail that is of interest within the fog-low cloud discussion.

This 10 km diameter swirl is visible on MODIS today:




Yours is from a later MODIS-run; diff probably 3-6 hours. The swirl made 60 km to the South and has lost it's vorticity. The 'contrail' is delusive; it doesn't emerge from the 'golfball'. Though it looks to be flowing North, the band seems related to the clearing of the fog/low clouds to the SW.
It looks like a diurnal process in action.
The exposed ice looks worse than before. Many pothole-polynia's are appearing, remaining snowcover is rapidly melting away and exposing the individual floes. On top of that, the floes turn a 'deeper shade of grey-blue'.
Soon, the Laptev Bite may expand deeper into this region.

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« Reply #296 on: July 02, 2014, 03:01:41 PM »
A little OT:

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« Reply #297 on: July 02, 2014, 04:33:33 PM »
This sequence in Nares is pretty extraordinary...
Yes, it's fascinating to watch. Here's yesterday's shot upstream a bit from your shots. You can see that another chunk has broken off. And further up, at the top of the strait, there's open water and very thin ice, suggesting that the whole thing will likely go pretty soon.

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« Reply #298 on: July 02, 2014, 10:04:30 PM »

Hey Seattlerocks,
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This 10 km diameter swirl is visible on MODIS

Yours is from a later MODIS-run; diff probably 3-6 hours. The swirl made 60 km to the South and has lost it's vorticity. The 'contrail' is delusive; it doesn't emerge from the 'golfball'. Though it looks to be flowing North, the band seems related to the clearing of the fog/low clouds to the SW.
It looks like a diurnal process in action.
The exposed ice looks worse than before. Many pothole-polynia's are appearing, remaining snowcover is rapidly melting away and exposing the individual floes. On top of that, the floes turn a 'deeper shade of grey-blue'.
Soon, the Laptev Bite may expand deeper into this region.

Is this rare or a normal phenomenon in the Arctic? I wonder what drives power to the vortex

Edit. I just read your post in the other thread so nevermind. It is really amazing

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« Reply #299 on: July 03, 2014, 06:37:20 PM »
Is this rare or a normal phenomenon in the Arctic?

I would have interpreted it as a polar low birth if I'd seen it just on one image but now I'm not anymore sure. I do not recall seeing anything this small persisting for so long (occasional checks of MODIS images since 2008.) Could be a new sort of phenomenon. Association of mid-size cumulus-clouds that could grow in to a supercell or two in lower latitudes but here up north there's no chance for that to happen? Weird.
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