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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #800 on: March 14, 2017, 08:22:54 PM »
Is this the head of a giant snowman (yellow scarf, green mouth, dark blue eyes), as seen through a window with panes (black lines)?
(AKA screenshot from Arctic HYCOM)
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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #801 on: March 14, 2017, 11:41:55 PM »
He looks a bit sad......

"Frosty the Snowman knew the sun was hot that day
So he said let's run and we'll have some fun now
Before I melt away......" 

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"Setting off atomic bombs is considered socially pungent as the years are made of fleeting ice that are painted by the piling up of the rays of the sun."


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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #804 on: March 18, 2017, 01:22:17 PM »
The "eye of Quebec."

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"Setting off atomic bombs is considered socially pungent as the years are made of fleeting ice that are painted by the piling up of the rays of the sun."

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #806 on: March 20, 2017, 02:04:31 PM »
Sea Ice Transport 20.03.2017: a vast tongue of sea ice is passing well past the Franz Joseph Land to the Barentz Sea and weak sea ice around Svalbard today: https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?p=arctic&l=MODIS_Aqua_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor,MODIS_Terra_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor,Coastlines,Reference_Labels(hidden),Reference_Features(hidden)&t=2017-03-20&z=3&v=638544.5625044382,-490825.29911611415,1687120.5625044382,169654.70088388585
From the size and shape of the floes, I'd bet that those are some of the die-hard MYI boulders which made it through last summer in the Northern Laptev. So long...

(...and thanks for all the fish)

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #807 on: March 20, 2017, 03:14:21 PM »
Hi All
This is my first blog on your wonderful site which I have been watching for nearly a year.
Today NASA announced that Greeland and Antarctic are losing 400 gigatons of ice / year. I have just calculated this as giving 2.38 mm / year height increase. Water thermal expansion + glacial and other surface ice would be in addition to this (also aquafier surface pumping). Does this seem a bit high ?

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #808 on: March 20, 2017, 04:39:02 PM »
Welcome, Jontenoy. Your profile has been released now, so you can post freely.  I see that you've asked your question in the SLR thread as well. This one is for Arctic images.
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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #809 on: March 20, 2017, 07:33:53 PM »
I guess I found the creature who is eating all the ice near Svalbard - Worldview, Mar 12 - Mar 13.
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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #810 on: March 20, 2017, 10:16:59 PM »
It's Icepacman!  :o

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« Reply #811 on: March 20, 2017, 10:41:40 PM »
It's Icepacman!  :o

hehe.... good that i saw your post before writing the same :-) uhhh.... just remembering 45 years ago sitting in front of those machines for hours each day :-)

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #812 on: March 23, 2017, 02:16:16 PM »
I guess I found the creature who is eating all the ice near Svalbard - Worldview, Mar 12 - Mar 13.

Ha ha ha !
Good one.

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #813 on: March 23, 2017, 04:38:32 PM »
Great fun - thank you for posting :)

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #814 on: March 23, 2017, 04:59:40 PM »
That image is addictive.  "Stop," I say, "Stop!  Turn it off.  Unplug it if you have to.  Stop the machine - it has gone too far!  We've lost too much sea ice already."  :'(
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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #815 on: March 25, 2017, 01:10:44 AM »
The icepacman of the Fram Strait has been active today: 350 km x 325 km chunk of sea ice is now leaving the Central Arctic today (24th March 2017) with large separation gap forming. I doubt that any bigger section of the Arctic Ocean ice cap could get through the gap, but you never know what comes next behind the bend (or more correctly what leaves from behind the bend [of Greenland])... https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?p=arctic&l=MODIS_Aqua_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor,MODIS_Terra_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor,Coastlines,Reference_Labels(hidden),Reference_Features(hidden)&t=2017-03-24&z=3&v=87993.52285053895,-1196593.2128281824,1136569.522850539,-536113.2128281824
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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #817 on: March 26, 2017, 10:23:18 PM »
Icepacman is great! He`s made my day ;D

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #818 on: March 30, 2017, 01:51:28 PM »
It's spring on the NE coast of Newfoundland, which means the polar bears that follow the whelping herds of harp and hood seals out on the pack ice are on the move. Some come ashore and often wander around remote communities, at great peril to local residents----and, sometimes, sadly, to themselves. This one was spotted in Wesleyville  (latitude N49.15) on March 29, which is near the southernmost limit of their range. The RCMP and wildlife officials have issued warnings and are monitoring.

PHOTO by local resident Dana Blackmore.


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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #819 on: March 30, 2017, 01:57:41 PM »
They are some beastly animals...

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #820 on: March 30, 2017, 09:02:17 PM »
UPDATE on that Newfoundland bear, with a photo that will probably go viral:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/praying-polar-bear-picture-wesleyville-1.4047414

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #821 on: March 31, 2017, 10:15:56 AM »
UPDATE on that Newfoundland bear, with a photo that will probably go viral:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/praying-polar-bear-picture-wesleyville-1.4047414
Personally prefer the second photo, but the first has more chance of going viral.


Nice to see a bear that doesn't appear emaciated.


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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #822 on: April 01, 2017, 02:52:46 AM »
Nor this one

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/03/31/polar-bears-spotted-scotland-animals-flee-melting-arctic-ice/

But a few corpses appear to have been washed up on Britains beaches in the last year.

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #823 on: April 01, 2017, 03:19:57 AM »
Nor this one

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/03/31/polar-bears-spotted-scotland-animals-flee-melting-arctic-ice/

But a few corpses appear to have been washed up on Britains beaches in the last year.

The famous Lirpa Loof rears its head.   :)
I wonder if it will get the same response as the Isle of San Seriffe?

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #824 on: April 04, 2017, 03:00:46 PM »
Beauty shot: muskoxen, north of Zachariae glacier, Greenland on April 3.
Photo by NASA Operation Icebridge/Jeremy Harbeck.
Lots more on their FB page.


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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #825 on: April 05, 2017, 01:39:46 PM »
Another one from NASA Operation Icebridge.

"Clouds (near the center of the photo) over the sea ice in Nares Strait as seen from a window of NASA’s P3." Posted on their FB page April 4.




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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #826 on: April 05, 2017, 08:21:54 PM »
Here's my view of the North end of Hudson Strait a few miles from Baffin Island a few minutes ago:
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« Reply #827 on: April 05, 2017, 08:24:25 PM »
Oops, that's huge and rotated! I'll edit that when I get to my computer.

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« Reply #828 on: April 06, 2017, 10:55:13 AM »
Oops, that's huge and rotated! I'll edit that when I get to my computer.
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"Setting off atomic bombs is considered socially pungent as the years are made of fleeting ice that are painted by the piling up of the rays of the sun."

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #830 on: April 07, 2017, 08:34:14 AM »
Fragility of sea ice revealed by a topographic constraint: circular ice breaking area radiates from an island north of the Kara Sea: <snip>
Great Image, VeliAlbertKallio!

That demonstrates categorically just how vulnerable the ice is in that region.
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« Reply #831 on: April 11, 2017, 03:27:02 PM »
I came down with a cold just after landing last week, then had to nurse my sweetheart who for some reason blames me for bringing the plague up to Inuit territory like I'm a genocidal European explorer.

But now that we're better, I have time to share a few photos. I'll space them out this week.

Today's photo, a cool feature I saw on approach to Iqaluit: rings of ridged ice around the shores of Frobisher Bay and its islands.

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #832 on: April 15, 2017, 12:19:14 AM »
"Petermann glacier's east wall near the terminus of the floating ice shelf, with blowing snow visible coming from the plateau to the east."
Photo NASA/John Sonntag. Posted today by NASA Operation Icebridge.


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« Reply #833 on: April 15, 2017, 06:30:00 PM »
"Petermann glacier's east wall near the terminus of the floating ice shelf, with blowing snow visible coming from the plateau to the east."
Photo NASA/John Sonntag. Posted today by NASA Operation Icebridge.

That is a truly beautiful image.

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« Reply #834 on: April 17, 2017, 05:18:56 PM »
Here's a close-up view of the ringed ice I photographed from the sky. This is on the bay between the Tundra Valley and Apex neighbourhoods of Iqaluit.

When you're in it, you can't see the pattern. It's about 200m of rough ice (at a guess; I could be off by a fair bit) out to the smooth ice in the bay; there's a clear phase shift at about 150m from shore where suddenly you only get a few big lumps and mostly smooth ice. I can guess at mechanisms for that phase shift but I don't know exactly -- my main guess is that it's where the low tide shoreline is.

Where I took this picture is a sand beach, so the rough ice has a lot of sand embedded: it formed when the water froze at low tide, then got lifted up (the tide is very strong -- about 8m here). Now that it's April, we see the ice around the dark sand melting out very fast.

The sun is incredibly strong: air temperature was -15 C but I was in a small sweater, snow on my boots was melting almost immediately, and when I headed back, the snow had warmed enough that it wasn't sticking to the wax on my skis. Also I had a good sunburn.

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #835 on: April 19, 2017, 07:18:14 AM »
Grounded iceberg near Ferryland, Newfoundland - see http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39632047


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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #836 on: April 19, 2017, 10:48:29 AM »
Grounded iceberg near Ferryland, Newfoundland - see http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39632047


Ha! I just came onto this thread in order to post that image!

One doesn't see a sight like that very often in South West England these days. (It's been a while since the LGM.)

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #837 on: April 19, 2017, 12:19:54 PM »
That is just the 10% above the water!

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #838 on: April 19, 2017, 01:04:09 PM »
Grounded iceberg near Ferryland, Newfoundland - see http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39632047

That's an amazing sight. Trying to judge the size of a more or less featureless chunk of out-of-context white can be tricky, but there's got to be, what, 60 meters of freeboard on that thing?

From that article:

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It's already been a busy season in iceberg alley, with hundreds of icebergs reported in the Atlantic - many more than usual for this time of year in the coastal regions.

Indeed...

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« Reply #840 on: April 19, 2017, 09:01:02 PM »
This is not far from me. Beautiful, yes, but they keep the water and the air so cold and can ruin the summer. Ice also can play havoc with fishing gear. Tourists love it because they don't have to live here. Those of us who have grown up with ice are praying for a solid month of sou-westerlies to take the bergs and the pack well out to sea, and good riddance! :)

FYI

Latitude of Ferryland is 47° 2' N.

So, more southerly than Paris, France.
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« Reply #841 on: April 19, 2017, 09:06:32 PM »
That is just the 10% above the water!

true, while the base under water is most probably wider similar to tree roots, else it's getting ready to topple :-)

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #842 on: April 20, 2017, 12:22:47 AM »
This is Derrick Bath's vessel, Polar Adventure, battling sea ice at Twillingate, a couple hundred km north of that spectacular berg in Ferryland. Sea ice is a  a major problem for Newfoundland fishermen, coming as it does during lobster and crab season.
 
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/ice-compensation-fisherman-twillingate-1.4076069



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« Reply #843 on: April 20, 2017, 05:30:57 PM »
... battling sea ice at Twillingate, a couple hundred km north of that spectacular berg in Ferryland. ...

When people describe Twillingate as the "iceberg capital of the world", I assume they are NOT referring to a variety of lettuce.   ;)


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« Reply #844 on: April 20, 2017, 06:15:49 PM »
This is not far from me. Beautiful, yes, but they keep the water and the air so cold and can ruin the summer. Ice also can play havoc with fishing gear. Tourists love it because they don't have to live here. Those of us who have grown up with ice are praying for a solid month of sou-westerlies to take the bergs and the pack well out to sea, and good riddance! :)

FYI

Latitude of Ferryland is 47° 2' N.

So, more southerly than Paris, France.
A good reminder of how the North Atlantic Drift keeps me warm in England at 52 N.
Just once in the extraordinary winter of  62-63 there were ice floes under Brighton pier on the South Coast of England. But not 46 m high.
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« Reply #845 on: April 20, 2017, 08:07:29 PM »
...
A good reminder of how the North Atlantic Drift keeps me warm in England at 52 N. Just once in the extraordinary winter of  62-63 there were ice floes under Brighton pier on the South Coast of England. But not 46 m high.
Ah, the winter of 62/63 - fond memories indeed.  :)

Went head-over-heels outside my house in Glasgow, and ended up with a fractured coccyx.  >:(


... Beautiful, yes, but they keep the water and the air so cold and can ruin the summer. Ice also can play havoc with fishing gear...
Still, there are worse things in this world than a berg made of ice. Imagine waking up one morning, and finding one of these right in the middle of your view...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23584833        :-X


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« Reply #846 on: April 20, 2017, 10:27:13 PM »
Oo er!

I noticed this was from "Wikimedia"; so maybe it's a generic pic? Published 6 April.



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Around 450 icebergs — defined as hunks of ice covering at least 5,382 square feet and between 98-164 feet in thickness — are lurking off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, well above the average of 80 usually found for this time of year. The swarm appeared suddenly, too. Just last week, there were only 37 icebergs in the region.

The highest concentration of rogue ice is off the southeast tip of Newfoundland.
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/icebergs-are-swarming-ships-in-the-arctic-21320
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« Reply #847 on: April 20, 2017, 11:38:11 PM »
RE: The Ferryland iceberg photo posted by Bairgon...
... 46 m highest point ...

and

That is just the 10% above the water!

true, while the base under water is most probably wider similar to tree roots, else it's getting ready to topple :-)

If that was sea ice, rather than a chunk of calved glacier, AND ...

if the Lebedev formula for ice growth still had some skill over such an extreme range, then ...

if we said it had an average thickness of ~ 400 metres, then ...

the number of Freezing Degree Days necessary would be approximately 50 million.


That would just require a temperature of -50 degrees Celsius, for about 27 or 28 centuries.

Even I might be prepared to accept a small wager that such a prolonged cool snap is not on the immediate horizon.


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« Reply #848 on: April 21, 2017, 05:33:56 AM »

I noticed this was from "Wikimedia"; so maybe it's a generic pic?

Hi Susan. The metadata indicates it was taken August 14, 2011, near St. Anthony, which is near the NE end of Newfoundland's Northern Peninsula, not far from the SE tip of Labrador on the mainland.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Icebergs.jpg

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« Reply #849 on: April 21, 2017, 04:26:56 PM »
Magma: thanks. I expose my lack of knowledge (was going to say - ignorance ;) - every day). Proper skepticism is important. A friend found this useful iceberg locator:
http://icebergfinder.com/
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