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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #950 on: July 02, 2017, 05:56:46 PM »
sentinel is great for this, this image is of a piece of ice grounded in shallow water off the east siberian coast. Landfast ice between the grounded piece and the coast seen near the bottom of the image has now broken away but the grounded piece is still stuck.
http://apps.sentinel-hub.com/sentinel-playground/?lat=70.70029171169845&lng=165.69820404052734&zoom=11&preset=1_NATURAL_COL0R&layers=B04,B03,B02&maxcc=41&gain=0.5&gamma=1&time=2015-01-01|2017-06-18&cloudCorrection=none&atmFilter=&showDates=false&evalscript=

it looks like layers of accretion around a particularly big chunk which ran agground

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« Reply #951 on: July 02, 2017, 07:35:07 PM »
Nice!!
For comparison, this is what Worldview shows in the same location and day.
With the new tool, some discussion whether that is "garbage ice" or slush or not will be more easily solved (or will it create some more). https://go.nasa.gov/2uyO8bY
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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #952 on: July 03, 2017, 03:08:47 AM »
Time for a little game. Identify this ship in Hudson Strait at noon today! It was sailing eastwards, dodging some smallish floes.

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #953 on: July 03, 2017, 12:49:27 PM »
Time for a little game. Identify this ship in Hudson Strait at noon today! It was sailing eastwards, dodging some smallish floes.

The S.S. Minnow? The Pequod? The USS Caine? Hard to tell from the image. :)

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #954 on: July 03, 2017, 01:07:59 PM »
Seen in the Parry Channel...   ...Jabba the Hut?

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #955 on: July 03, 2017, 06:14:40 PM »
Time for a little game. Identify this ship in Hudson Strait at noon today! It was sailing eastwards, dodging some smallish floes.

The S.S. Minnow? The Pequod? The USS Caine? Hard to tell from the image. :)

Between the GPS information embedded in the jpg and the public ship logs it should be possible to work it out exactly. I don't actually know the answer.

It was a beautiful day to fly YOW-YFB: starting about at the tree line in Quebec, there were no clouds. I'll have to go through my collection and pick out some nice ones of e.g. the glacial striations on the ground (caused by the retreat of the ice sheets), and the sea which still has wisps of ice in it. And I caught the final approach on video.

An iPhone looking out a passenger window of a 737 isn't the best photography platform, but it's better than you might expect! The main difficulty is when it decides to focus on an ice crystal instead of the background.

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #956 on: July 05, 2017, 02:00:14 PM »
Summer has arrived to melt away the hardest iron shield of the Arctic Ice at the core of the ocean. Many other areas of the Arctic Ocean shows rapidly fracturing ice cover, or readily pulverized ice - even near the North Pole (good snapshots to be seen in many areas of the ocean in clear skies):
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=2017-07-05&z=3&v=-1009232.144502394,374380.88566378993,-747088.144502394,539500.8856637899
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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #957 on: July 06, 2017, 06:21:01 AM »
Lots of activity and Barrow looks down right green!

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #958 on: July 07, 2017, 06:42:27 PM »
Here's a candidate for longest observed contrail.
It extends across the Beaufort Sea from a point north (approximately) of Tuktoyaktuk (NU Canada), to a point north (approximately) of Prudhoe Bay (AK USA).

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #959 on: July 08, 2017, 10:49:15 PM »
 Brian Brettschneider‏ @Climatologist49 25m25 minutes ago

Melt stream running through ice at toe of Matanuska Glacier.

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #960 on: July 08, 2017, 10:56:17 PM »
Waves lapping the shore at Barrow Alaska. Wave erosion is bound to increase as larger areas of open water appear. This in addition to melting "perma"frost may cause rapid coastal erosion.


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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #961 on: July 09, 2017, 10:56:55 PM »
Beautiful view of a cyclone over the Hudson bay from space today

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #962 on: July 10, 2017, 02:37:54 AM »
An entire weekend of strong winds straight up Frobisher Bay and all I got was these lousy little floes.

There's a lot more off in the distance, just not coming up into Koojessee Inlet.

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #963 on: July 12, 2017, 03:29:28 PM »
Those ice floes turned out to be bigger than they first seemed -- as I should have expected, since most of the volume is under the waterline. Here's the dragon of Koojessee Inlet:

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #964 on: July 12, 2017, 03:47:51 PM »
Those ice floes turned out to be bigger than they first seemed -- as I should have expected, since most of the volume is under the waterline. Here's the dragon of Koojessee Inlet:

Summer fashion in Iqaluit, yes? ☺️

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #965 on: July 12, 2017, 03:49:37 PM »
Those ice floes turned out to be bigger than they first seemed -- as I should have expected, since most of the volume is under the waterline.

Really neat to see these photos, thanks numerobis!

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« Reply #966 on: July 12, 2017, 05:36:27 PM »
Those ice floes turned out to be bigger than they first seemed -- as I should have expected, since most of the volume is under the waterline. Here's the dragon of Koojessee Inlet:

Summer fashion in Iqaluit, yes? ☺️

A beautiful coat of seal and caribou with beads would be more authentic -- not to mention the fox-lined hood with a baby inside. But ice floes in Iqaluit are like squirrels in Montreal: they bring out the foreigners (like me) to take photos.

The summer temperature here is very strange to me. What the thermometer says is almost irrelevant. What really matters is the sun and wind.

I can sit outside by 4 degrees in shorts & t-shirt if it's sunny with calm winds. Conversely, Monday night in my "late fall" clothes (by Montreal standards), I was huddling next to the campfire and shivering despite it being 10 degrees: it was somewhat windy!

In summer, seems wind direction matters a lot too: wind coming from the southeast is cold, wind coming from the northwest is warm. Southeast is water & ice; northwest is land (with a bit of snow left in the shady spots). In winter it's not so different given that it's snow and ice in all directions.

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #967 on: July 13, 2017, 08:29:51 PM »
Those ice floes turned out to be bigger than they first seemed -- as I should have expected, since most of the volume is under the waterline. Here's the dragon of Koojessee Inlet:

ice floes are prone to the same rules like any other swimming ice including huge icebergs, hence this is the norm, just often forgotten.

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #968 on: July 13, 2017, 08:50:51 PM »
Those ice floes turned out to be bigger than they first seemed -- as I should have expected, since most of the volume is under the waterline. Here's the dragon of Koojessee Inlet:

That's really neat. Probably not too clever to be standing right there though - it's all just good fun until you get squashed by a toppling 50-ton ice Dragon!

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #969 on: July 15, 2017, 02:39:32 PM »
A beautiful early morning in Barrow

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #970 on: July 16, 2017, 07:12:23 AM »
From Anatarctica, appears Suomi is picking up Auroras
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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #971 on: July 16, 2017, 03:45:10 PM »

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #972 on: July 16, 2017, 04:09:28 PM »
Interesting. That'll fluff up the Ionosphere and increase its insulation capacity.

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M2.4 solar flare July 14, 2017

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Region 2665 (beta) is now moving away from the center of the Earth-facing Sun, but is still potent enough to produce moderate to strong eruptions in the days ahead.

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Sunspots on July 14, 2017. Credit: NASA SDO/HMI

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WSA-Enlil model run for July 14th CME impact on July 16
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Space Weather Message Code: WARPX1
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EXTENDED WARNING: Proton 10MeV Integral Flux above 10pfu expected
Extension to Serial Number: 459
Valid From: 2017 Jul 14 0530 UTC
Now Valid Until: 2017 Jul 15 1200 UTC
Warning Condition: Persistence
Predicted NOAA Scale: S1 - Minor

Potential Impacts: Radio - Minor impacts on polar HF (high frequency) radio propagation resulting in fades at lower frequencies.

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Space Weather Message Code: WATA30
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Issue Time: 2017 Jul 14 1029 UTC

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #973 on: July 17, 2017, 01:27:02 AM »
Pity it's so bright out at midnight! And cloudy tonight.

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #974 on: July 17, 2017, 02:08:15 AM »
Pity it's so bright out at midnight! And cloudy tonight.
Yes, thick cloud and drizzle at 46 deg south made for poor viewing. :(

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #975 on: July 17, 2017, 10:58:12 PM »
CCGS Amundsen showed up this weekend (I only finally got the picture off my phone).

At the same time, two empty cargo ships showed up. I assume Amundsen escorted them.

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #977 on: July 20, 2017, 09:33:11 PM »
Numerobis: "At the same time, two empty cargo ships showed up. I assume Amundsen escorted them."
As a resident, what do you suppose two empty cargo ships are doing? These must be about the first ships of the season- and I should have thought that they would be fully laden. Or does all the freight come by Amazon now? ;)

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #978 on: July 21, 2017, 03:06:55 AM »
They looked empty, but one it turns out is a tanker, not a container ship. The other I must have misunderstood what I was seeing, because it started unloading yesterday (why it was out there several days without unloading seems to have confused more than one person). That or the ship I saw was a second tanker, left, and was replaced by the first container ship of the season.

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« Reply #979 on: July 21, 2017, 03:21:48 AM »
What timing! Right after my previous comment, a container ship just steamed off. It's not the "empty" ship I'd seen -- for one, there's big cranes on it; for another, its full of containers.

It's a bit hard to observe from where I am because all but one of the ships is hidden behind an island at the entrance to the inlet. There's no port here. At high tide a barge goes out and they haul cargo onto it.

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« Reply #980 on: July 21, 2017, 10:11:05 AM »
What timing! Right after my previous comment, a container ship just steamed off. It's not the "empty" ship I'd seen -- for one, there's big cranes on it; for another, its full of containers.
Was ist probably the Emmagracht (aka Mitiq)?
http://www.sailwx.info/shiptrack/shipposition.phtml?call=PDYX

https://www.marinetraffic.com/de/ais/details/ships/shipid:383086/mmsi:316025029/imo:9081306/vessel:MITIQ

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« Reply #981 on: July 21, 2017, 01:51:37 PM »
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10155166699849442&id=100174284441

The Mitiq arrived Wednesday apparently; if it's the one that steamed away it's ahead of schedule. The ships I saw last weekend must have been the two tankers. The paper also says it's a different icebreaker than I'd thought, unless there are two icebreakers here right now.

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« Reply #982 on: July 21, 2017, 05:02:12 PM »
From the wording of the facebook message I would assume, that there were 2 icebreakers there: One that escorted the Mitiq, and one that escorts the two tankers.

If you click on the position-link on the sailwx-webpage I linked before, you will get a map and a list where the other ships in the area are also shown.
According to that, there are two ice-breakers there:
The CCGS Terry Fox and the CCGS Henry Larsen.
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« Reply #983 on: July 21, 2017, 10:16:36 PM »
Hopefully I'll be able to take a photo tonight or tomorrow morning. There are two cargo ships and a tanker visible from town, whereas sailwx only shows one.

A bit of ice has floated in as well owing to the SE winds all week long. Might be a pretty sight!

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« Reply #984 on: July 24, 2017, 06:23:35 PM »
One ship came in during our hike on Saturday, and another left just before sunset. The barges have been unloading madly.

This panorama shows the ship coming in on the left (Southeast), the suburb of Apex on the right (Northwest), the neighbourhoods of Tundra Ridge and Tundra Valley in the middle, and the fuel tanks that store our precious reserve of deadly fossil fuels. No barges yet visible -- they must have been about to head out with the tide coming in.

The wind was been from the Southeast for days, so the ice moved in. On the far right you can see how big those chunks of ice really are, though they barely float above the water.

You can see the road to Apex on the far right, then a small path down to the water. That was our path. We started hiking a bit before 2pm, when the tide was at 2.6m. About halfway across the inlet I called on the rest of the group to stop taking so many pictures of the growlers, because the tide moves fast. They though I was being a doddering old man but agreed to placate me. When we finally got across after just an hour of walking, the tide was at 4.5m. We had lunch, headed up a small hill, looked back, and that's when my companions realized that the tide is not something you fuck with around here. At the new moon it rises faster than 2 meters per hour!

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #985 on: July 24, 2017, 10:17:08 PM »
Caught a ship at Kimmirut:

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« Reply #986 on: July 25, 2017, 03:58:57 AM »
For the earlier discussion: the Mitiq left on the 22nd but not to Pangnirtung -- the schedule flipped two destinations, delaying the Pang trip by five days on account of ice.

Apparently both the Zélada (which has my stuff) and the Qamutik showed up on the 22nd. I don't know which is which in the picture.

A qamutik is the sled that sled dogs pull (though typically these days it'll be a snowmachine instead) -- a common sight around town, most houses have one somewhere on the property. It's quite the fitting name for a cargo ship. Certainly better than the Mitiq, since I'm not sure I want "a large and fast sea duck" carrying my valuable goods.

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #987 on: July 28, 2017, 10:55:33 AM »
One ship came in during our hike on Saturday, and another left just before sunset.
Great picture!

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« Reply #988 on: July 29, 2017, 10:56:53 PM »
Absolutely perfect summer's day at Barrow today. The temperature at the time of this picture was 68F.

San Francisco weather!

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« Reply #989 on: July 30, 2017, 05:37:21 PM »
Absolutely perfect summer's day at Barrow today. The temperature at the time of this picture was 68F.

San Francisco weather!

i'm curious how much green lawns we gonna see there in a few years, perhaps i'm wrong but it looks a bit like things are getting greener than they were a few years ago. at least i always felt pity for people living in gray and brown sand and gravel and now it's getting almost pretty, relatively though :D
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« Reply #990 on: July 30, 2017, 08:14:58 PM »
Tundra is beautiful. From the sky it looks like dirt, but on the ground you see all the flowers and mosses and lichens and low shrubs.

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« Reply #991 on: July 30, 2017, 08:54:36 PM »
Tundra is beautiful. From the sky it looks like dirt, but on the ground you see all the flowers and mosses and lichens and low shrubs.

sure, didn't mean country-side, meant within city limits.

except the mosquitos i love tundra as well, since my first wife from russia i had the pleasure to grasp some of it's beauty, even though on the other side of the arctic ocean :-) one of my daughters and 2 grand-kids are currently living in Dudinka (Дудинка) at the Yenisei river (Река енисей) doing some biological research.

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« Reply #992 on: July 31, 2017, 11:37:09 AM »
From O-Buoy 14 last night, in the M'Clintock Channel:


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« Reply #993 on: July 31, 2017, 01:48:22 PM »
so beautiful

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« Reply #994 on: July 31, 2017, 05:27:20 PM »
Tundra is beautiful. From the sky it looks like dirt, but on the ground you see all the flowers and mosses and lichens and low shrubs.

sure, didn't mean country-side, meant within city limits.

Ah, I agree.

I look out onto the inlet, which is beautiful; and tundra in the distance, which is beautiful, and the city dump, which is not. Closer in I look out onto a bunch of shacks, decrepit boats (some of which double as shacks) and rusting containers (idem), dusty roads and walkways, only half of them paved. The tundra is too fragile to do well in town.

Yesterday a friend took us by zodiac out onto the inlet despite rough seas (30+ km/h winds all day). We got a close look at that young sea ice. We tried to go through a channel between some islands, but it was blocked off by "thick first-year ice" as the Canadian Ice Service puts it -- albeit at a much smaller scale than they usually look for. The mostly southeast winds we've had all of July (as opposed to the predominant northwest winds) have kept the town cool, prevented the mosquitoes from breeding, and blown a lot of ice up.

There's no more ice that we can see in Frobisher Bay -- it looks like it's all been blown on shore (except one small chunk we saw floating on its side; presumably it had been on shore, melted down, then floated off with the tide). The ice maps show that this holds most of the way to the mouth of the bay.

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« Reply #995 on: July 31, 2017, 06:03:41 PM »
numerobis,
What is the height (above the water) of those pieces of floating ice?  (What is the freeboard?)
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« Reply #997 on: July 31, 2017, 10:58:26 PM »
numerobis,
What is the height (above the water) of those pieces of floating ice?  (What is the freeboard?)

You can see the zodiac I'm in for scale; the ice is 50cm-1m above the water line.

They aren't floating though -- small boats stay well clear of anything that's floating! You can walk across that spot except at high tide.

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #998 on: August 01, 2017, 12:53:02 AM »
Thanks; my best guess was 'most of a meter', but I wondered if my sense of perspective was off, because 3/4 meter freeboard would mean 6.75 meters below (or the mass equivalent spread out), and there isn't much 7+ m thick FYI!  Your saying that ice is all grounded makes the scene make sense to me.
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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #999 on: August 01, 2017, 01:38:31 AM »
You can actually see the melt line on this ice which became exposed as the tide went out and the ice grounded.