Thursday, July 2, 2009

Timelapse Video Shows 30 Years Of Arctic Ice

Here is an Arctic Sea Ice video timelapse from 1978 to 2009. It was animated by Jeff Id and is built on data generated by the NASA funded National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado. This one is about four minutes long and is quite mesmerising to watch, and it's clockwork repetition is oddly reassuring, especially if you are a polar bear. In this projection, Newfoundland is at the far right of the screen just below center. You can skip along the time line if you want to.



And Jeff Id's 1978 - 2009 Antarctic Sea Ice timelapse is posted at Watts Up With That? Keep scrolling. It shows a remarkably similar pattern. This one is over 10 minutes long.