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Icy, Mountainous Terrain Near Western Coast of Greenland
Icy, mountainous terrain in Greenland - November 27th, 2008 This radar (ASAR) image allows us to see some of the mountainous, icy terrain near the coast of Greenland and Baffin Bay. Greenland is the...
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Melting Glacier in Greenland
Melting glacier in Greenland - November 30th, 2008 A glacier gradually melts into the Arctic Ocean off the coast of Greenland. Glaciers form where snow and ice accumulation exceed snow and ice melt. As...
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Glacier on West Coast of Greenland
Glacier melting on west coast of Greenland - November 30th, 2008 Here we can see a large glacier off the western coast of Greenland, seemingly fed by three ice streams. The largest glaciers are...
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Labrador Sea between Canada and Greenland
Labrador Sea between Canada and Greenland - March 4th, 2009 The Labrador Sea is an arm of the North Atlantic Ocean between Labrador and Greenland. Water depths in the center of Labrador Sea are around...
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Greenland’s Disko Island, in Baffin Bay
Greenland - April 5th, 2009 Greenland‘s central ice sheet is blanketed by white snow; its western edges evident by the start of grooved terrain along the coastline. Further west, much of Baffin Bay is...
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Ice in the Davis Strait
Davis Strait - April 13th, 2009 As northern hemisphere temperatures warm up, sea ice breaks apart and melts in the Davis Strait, which lies between mid-western Greenland (upper right) and Baffin Island...
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Ice off Greenland’s East Coast
Greenland - June 7th, 2009 Part of Greenland’s eastern coast is visible here, bordered by the Greenland Sea. All towns and settlements of Greenland are situated along the coast, although the population...
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Southwestern Coast of Greenland in Summer
Greenland - July 28th, 2009 The coastline of Greenland visible here stretches from Disko Island, or Qeqertarsuaq, at the top left, to the town of Paamiut towards the lower right. Many fjords are...
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Ice Moving Towards the Coast of Greenland
Greenland - September 30th, 2009 The total area of Greenland is 2,166,086 km² (836,109 sq mi), of which the Greenland Ice Sheet covers 1,755,637 km² (677,676 sq mi) (81%). The weight of this massive...
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Peary Land: the Mountainous Polar Desert of Northern Greenland
Greenland - November 10th, 2009 Peary Land is a peninsula in northern Greenland, extending into the Arctic Ocean. It is only a bit more than 700 km south of the North Pole. It is bounded by Lincoln Sea...
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Disko Island Between Greenland Mainland and Baffin Bay Ice
Greenland - February 23rd, 2010 Disko Island or Qeqertarsuaq (meaning “the large island”), is a big island in Baffin Bay, off the west coast of Greenland at a latitude of 70° North, and to the north of...
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Swirled Patterns of Sea Ice Off the Southeastern Shores of Greenland
Greenland - March 5th, 2010 Sea ice creates a white paisley pattern parallel to the southeastern shores of Greenland. The swirled designs are created by the melting and freezing of ice in the shape of...
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Large Iceberg Calving Off Petermann Glacier, Greenland – July 21st, 2012
Calving from July 11th-18th, 2012 Petermann Glacier, Greenland On July 16-17 2012, a 150 km2 (59 square-mile) chunk calved from the northern tip of the Petermann Glacier, a large glacier located in...
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Cloud Vortex Southeast of Greenland
Greenland – January 26th, 2013 A large area of convection forming a spiral cloud vortex (bottom right quadrant) can be seen southeast of the southern tip of Greenland (upper left quadrant). It is a...
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Fjords of Western Greenland, Sediments, Phytoplankton and Climate Change
Greenland – January 26th, 2013 Greenlandic fjords are located at the junction between the ocean and the Greenland Ice Sheet and therefore sensitive to future climate change. However, little is known...
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Greenland’s Ice and Climate Change
Greenland – June 16th, 2013 New research suggests that Greenland’s vast ice sheet isn’t as fragile as some climate scientists feared. The work indicates the majority of ice on Greenland could remain...
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Greenland Ice Sheet and Climate Change
Greenland – June 19th, 2013 The Greenland ice sheet is a vast body of ice covering 1,710,000 square kilometres (660,235 sq mi), roughly 80% of the surface of Greenland. It is the second largest ice...
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Arctic Ice by Canada and Greenland
Canada and Greenland – June 22nd, 2013 This image shows glacial ice and sea ice in the Arctic, between Canada and Greenland. Effects of Arctic climate change include a marked decrease in Arctic sea...
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