Even Better Hi-Res Polar Ice Animation

Earlier this month I blogged about some compelling animations of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice made by Jeff Id at The Air Vent using polar satellite data generated by the NASA funded National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado.

Now Jeff points us to an even higher resolution animation from the University of Bremen. This video runs from January 1, 2003 up to June 29, 2009. You can watch a low-res version on YouTube here, or you can download a much nicer looking high-res avi file here.

Use these videos to refute anyone who tells you the Arctic ice cap has melted or that polar bears no longer have Arctic habitat. And while it appears that Arctic ice is in slow decline year over year, Antarctic ice is expanding.