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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #600 on: August 30, 2015, 12:18:49 AM »
I think I saw playful behavior between species documented in the wild as well - as long as they weren't hunter and prey or direct rivals for the same food.
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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #601 on: August 30, 2015, 01:11:48 PM »
Polar Bears are not what they used to be:

Thanks for that most interesting link Espen, which eventually took me to a more recent Polar bear video. If you edit out the 's' at the end of https in the link YouTube provides the video will embed itself. A bit like this:

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #602 on: August 30, 2015, 05:14:09 PM »
Polar Bears are not what they used to be:



The key observation to make here is that the bears in the video are in excellent condition. Grizzly bears in coastal Alaska and British Columbia can also be extremely tolerant of other bears and human observers when they are well-fed on abundant salmon. Aggressive predatory behavior increases drastically with hunger and reduced resources.

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #603 on: August 31, 2015, 07:37:10 PM »
Polar Bears are not what they used to be:



The key observation to make here is that the bears in the video are in excellent condition. Grizzly bears in coastal Alaska and British Columbia can also be extremely tolerant of other bears and human observers when they are well-fed on abundant salmon. Aggressive predatory behavior increases drastically with hunger and reduced resources.
What do you mean?

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #604 on: August 31, 2015, 08:24:37 PM »
Polar Bears are not what they used to be:



The key observation to make here is that the bears in the video are in excellent condition. Grizzly bears in coastal Alaska and British Columbia can also be extremely tolerant of other bears and human observers when they are well-fed on abundant salmon. Aggressive predatory behavior increases drastically with hunger and reduced resources.
What do you mean?

I think Magma is saying that the bears are often nice so long as they're not hungry, so it's hard to say from (just) this video that they're in trouble.

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #605 on: September 02, 2015, 01:53:11 PM »
since the picture is more than 8 years old, still not sure what it means... and it might be older than that. I remember reading the original article back then, it was about the psychology of how animals recognize a "play attitude"

[just to be clear, I was referring to the earlier post, not the most recent one... my laptop hadn't loaded the recent one, apparently it's a bit slow...]
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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #606 on: September 03, 2015, 06:02:38 PM »
The Permian–Triassic extinction event, a.k.a. the Great Dying, occurred about 250 million years ago and is the most severe known extinction event. Up to 96% of all marine species and 70% of terrestrial vertebrate species became extinct; it is also the only known mass extinction of insects.

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #607 on: September 03, 2015, 08:27:03 PM »
Another picture from 8 years ago?
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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #608 on: September 03, 2015, 11:36:08 PM »
Negative, it's from Aug 24. (Click the text -- it's a link.)
The Permian–Triassic extinction event, a.k.a. the Great Dying, occurred about 250 million years ago and is the most severe known extinction event. Up to 96% of all marine species and 70% of terrestrial vertebrate species became extinct; it is also the only known mass extinction of insects.

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #609 on: September 04, 2015, 05:51:22 AM »
Negative, it's from Aug 24. (Click the text -- it's a link.)


I recognise that the article is dated the 24th, but I don't recall seeing that much bare rock in NW Greenland this year. It's no biggy, but I check Flade Isblink on a daily basis & that picture, with the expanse of bare rock while Independence Fjord is frozen was unusual, to say the least.


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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #610 on: September 04, 2015, 08:29:49 AM »
Ok, reading the blurb, it's not from Aug. 24th. It's from July 16th, 2015. Or so it says...

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As the northern hemisphere experiences the heat of summer, ice moves and melts in the Arctic waters and the far northern lands surrounding it. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this true-color image of sea ice off Greenland on July 16, 2015.

Large chunks of melting sea ice can be seen in the sea ice off the coast, and to the south spirals of ice have been shaped by the winds and currents that move across the Greenland Sea. Along the Greenland coast, cold, fresh melt water from the glaciers flows out to the sea, as do newly calved icebergs. Frigid air from interior Greenland pushes the ice away from the shoreline, and the mixing of cold water and air allows some sea ice to be sustained even at the height of summer.

According to observations from satellites, 2015 is on track to be another low year for arctic summer sea ice cover. The past ten years have included nine of the lowest ice extents on record. The annual minimum typically occurs in late August or early September. The amount of Arctic sea ice cover has been dropping as global temperatures rise. The Arctic is two to three times more sensitive to temperature changes as the Earth as a whole.

Image Credit: NASA/Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/sea-ice-in-the-greenland-sea

I double-checked using Aqua on Worldview, and it seems to check out (att).
The Permian–Triassic extinction event, a.k.a. the Great Dying, occurred about 250 million years ago and is the most severe known extinction event. Up to 96% of all marine species and 70% of terrestrial vertebrate species became extinct; it is also the only known mass extinction of insects.

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #611 on: September 04, 2015, 08:52:10 AM »
If you zoom in to the quickly receding calving front at Zachariae Isstrom you can verify that the image is from this year...

Compare to this image:
http://forum.arctic-sea-ice.net/index.php/topic,400.msg55043.html#msg55043


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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #613 on: September 04, 2015, 03:14:36 PM »
Thanks all
My bad
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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #614 on: September 08, 2015, 10:24:21 PM »
One strange thing about this season is the remaining sea ice in Cumberland Sound / Baffin Island, relatively south at +66?
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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #615 on: September 14, 2015, 12:15:52 PM »
Sentinel-1 multitemporal image of the Jakonbshaven Isfjord in Greenland:

R=19.8.2015
G=31.8.2015
B=12.9.2015

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #616 on: September 17, 2015, 10:09:40 PM »
Climate what climate?
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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #617 on: September 18, 2015, 01:41:50 AM »
oh my god that poor bear!!! :(

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #618 on: September 18, 2015, 02:01:27 AM »
To be fair, you can't tell about climate from a single bear. There have always been sick and old polar bears.

(Yes, I'm very worried about human-caused climate change. There is plenty of evidence. It's just that this is not it.)

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #619 on: September 18, 2015, 11:12:20 AM »


This photo of the recent solar eclipse over Svalbard won first prize in the Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition for 2015

http://www.theguardian.com/science/across-the-universe/gallery/2015/sep/18/insight-astronomy-photographer-of-the-year-2015-winners-in-pictures

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #620 on: September 18, 2015, 07:56:35 PM »
To be fair, you can't tell about climate from a single bear. There have always been sick and old polar bears.

(Yes, I'm very worried about human-caused climate change. There is plenty of evidence. It's just that this is not it.)


"One man's pain is another man's gain" Bluefin tuna"   caugth for the first time in Norway in 30 years not climate related:

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #621 on: September 18, 2015, 08:43:18 PM »
Just a coincidence. Sorry for for the inappropriate relation. 
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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #622 on: September 19, 2015, 11:35:10 PM »



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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #623 on: October 14, 2015, 01:58:42 PM »
Red Fox with corpse of an Arctic Fox. This is the winner of the 2015 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.



My personal favourite is the three Red-footed Falcons.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34520185

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #624 on: October 14, 2015, 11:54:12 PM »
This still is from the May 2014 high resolution video of a calving event at Jakobshavn. The whole 11 minute youTube is very much watching -- be sure to use full screen mode.

http://jasonbox.net/news/

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #625 on: November 23, 2015, 06:37:50 PM »
See the photos at the end of the Arcticle.
Weather Man Vyacheslav Korotki
http://www.newyorker.com/project/portfolio/weather-man?mbid=social_tumblr

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #626 on: December 06, 2015, 07:29:36 PM »
Close encounter of the special kind:

A Lynx and a Wolverine in the same image. Northern Norway.

Photo: Stein Halvorsen
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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #627 on: December 08, 2015, 02:15:38 PM »
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A Lynx and a Wolverine in the same image
Well, that is what you get setting out meat in winter bait traps. Here is what you get just providing habitat.
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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #628 on: December 11, 2015, 09:31:15 AM »
Gljúfrabúi Canyon, Iceland


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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #630 on: January 01, 2016, 06:58:23 PM »
New year greetings from Wannsee (Berlin Germany) picture taken close to the ferry port December 31 2015 (either 8 months late or +4 months early?):
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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #631 on: January 17, 2016, 06:13:54 PM »


That's where sea ice gone

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #633 on: February 10, 2016, 02:13:02 PM »
Light pillars over Alaska.



http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160208.html

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #634 on: February 10, 2016, 04:03:28 PM »

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Arctic Video of the Day
« Reply #635 on: February 22, 2016, 04:07:41 PM »
Sentinel 3A dancing with the aurora borealis over Finland:



Apparently "The Sentinel 3 Synthetic Aperture Radar Altimeter is better than the CryoSat altimeter"

P.S. The embedded video seems not to function. Here's the URL:
« Last Edit: February 22, 2016, 04:19:19 PM by Jim Hunt »
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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #636 on: March 01, 2016, 09:07:36 AM »
Sharp boundary between fast ice and not-so-fast ice in the Laptev Sea in this MODIS-Aqua image.

(click to enlarge)

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #637 on: March 08, 2016, 08:59:12 AM »
Care of Climate Reanalyzer - This I think is a remarkable image.  It's Arctic temperature anomalies predicted about 42 hours out.

Most of Atlantic side of the arctic, from 90E to 90W, all the way from the pole to Iceland is red.
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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #638 on: March 08, 2016, 05:33:11 PM »
Antarctica, but still...
Sentinel 3 image. Click through for a description.



Ice cracked by European Space Agency, on Flickr

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #639 on: March 08, 2016, 05:41:06 PM »
Dayum.  2-4KM wide?  Probably close to 500M deep.

That's the best part of a 1000KM long, I'll wager.

[edit: reevaluation - probably not that deep, but still, very old, probably fairly thick ice breaking off the shelf]
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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #640 on: March 16, 2016, 09:52:18 AM »
Phoenix aurora over Iceland.



http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160316.html

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #641 on: March 16, 2016, 10:07:43 PM »
An arch in Bering Strait on March 14.

From https://news.yahoo.com/2-000-square-miles-ice-152500577.html

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #642 on: March 26, 2016, 01:25:21 PM »
Thin ice.




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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #644 on: April 04, 2016, 10:00:52 AM »

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #645 on: April 07, 2016, 04:53:15 PM »
Beaufort captured on Worldview, using brightness temperature band 31-night, with the palette compressed to -50 to 0C.  Darker is colder.

Note the streams of higher temperature being swept clockwise to the west carried along by the flow around the high pressure currently over the arctic.
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« Reply #647 on: April 11, 2016, 03:09:12 PM »

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #648 on: April 16, 2016, 02:45:02 PM »
The animation below shows the details that are actually available from Lance-Modis for day 106 of this year at their top resolution true color (after some processing). The second frame flashes in cloud cover taken from bands 367. Click to see at full size

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Re: Arctic Image of the Day
« Reply #649 on: April 17, 2016, 08:19:16 PM »
The northern most piece of real land Kaffeklubben Ø at 83,39+ is clearly seen these days even in Modis Resolution:

http://www.arcticthule.com/about/kaffeklubben
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