Chasing Ice is the story of one man’s mission to change the tide of history by gathering undeniable evidence of climate change. Using time-lapse cameras, his videos compress years into seconds and capture ancient mountains of ice in motion as they disappear at a breathtaking rate.
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Just an attempt to follow sea ice dynamics and escape Arctic winter darkness. Source video should be available from the Vimeo page in case you miss frame by frame playback. First frame is dated 2013-01-15. I'll try to update it once per week or so.
Jennifer Francis and The Arctic Paradox
Jennifer Francis makes a great job drawing a line from sea ice retreat to slower moving weather patterns on the northern hemisphere. Probably it is strongly against common sense to accept colder winter and more snow as an aspect of global warming, but eventually even a room full of meteorologists absorbs the message - if properly presented.
-> continue readingAre you ready for the real Weather Report?
Acting by Pippa Mackie and Kai Nagata, written by Heather Libby and filmed at Strut Studios in Vancouver. More: deeprogueram.tumblr.com/
The Devil's Symphony
Creepy sounds from an intact ice pack uploaded by NOAAPMEL.
Subtext: These sounds of the movement Arctic sea ice pack have been called "The Devil's Symphony" by early Arctic explorers. The sounds you hear were captured by hydrophones on moorings deployed in Bering Strait during winter of 2011-2012, and are the same as those so vividly described by early Arctic explorers. See www.pmel.noaa.gov/arctic/rediscover/ & www.arctic.noaa.gov/aro/russian-american/
Melting in Barents Sea and Kara Sea
Above are the last 100 days of the European Sector animated using a cloud-free algorithm. Especially the Kara Sea is worth to look at - it became ice free within a few days. Unfortunately Fram Strait was mostly covered by clouds and the mass export is not visible. Make sure to switch to the high resolution version (1280x720) and go fullscreen.
Credit goes to the NASA Rapid Response Team
TV AD: Are We Ready to Drill in the Arctic Ocean?
This TV advertisement aired in the D.C. market on This Week, Face the Nation, Meet the Press, and State of the Union on December 4. It also will air during the week of December 5-9 on Morning Joe, The Daily Show, and Rachel Maddow.
PewEnvironment.org: Are We Really Ready to Drill in America's Arctic Ocean?Timelapse Ice Video from Murmansk to Dudinka Port
credit: Timelapser@Vimeo
2 years old - still awesome. Enjoy this day and night trip from Murmansk to Dudinka Port via Barents Sea, White Sea, Pechora Sea, Kara Strait, Kara Sea, Yenisei Gulf, Yenisei River. All timelapses were photographed at temperatures from -30C to -50C, you can notice "boiling" water when icebreaker unseals ice armor.
Music -"Circle" from "Contact Note" by Jon Hopkins, 2004
More timelapse videos here.
See Thick Ice vanishing in the Beaufort Gyre
credit: NOAA
NOAA climate service animation based on the work of James Maslanik, Colorado, showing ice age distribution beginning January 1987 through mid-summer 2011. The Beaufort Gyre no longer fosters multiyear ice, instead it is now a dangerous place for old and thick ice.
-> continue readingAnimation of the Sea Ice Melting Season 2011
Above animation starts with a full image of the Arctic mosaic taken first week of May and then updates all cloud free parts day by day and frame by frame. Although it looks quite real, every single frame is actually a patchwork of multiple days.
During the first half the animation profits from the clear sky conditions, now at the end of the season clouds and low pressure system are coming back and the last frame dated as of yesterday shows far too much ice. Now we depend on radar and microwave images depicting the real extent of the Arctic ...
-> continue readingStriking Web Cam Video of Arctic Sea Ice Melting in Beaufort Sea
credit: datatransport.org
This web cam might become a sea floor humpback whale cam soon. The battery will acclaim bathing in warm Atlantic bottom layer, too bad the Iridium network does not support offshore underwater operation.
What happened to Sea Ice last Winter?
Since 10 days sea ice extent is falling of the cliff. Over the course of June it showed already little difference to 2010. Now it even starts with steeper decrement compared to 2007 into July. Most likely the extent will drop below 8 Msqkm today or tomorrow.
Most weather models calculate the high pressure system over Arctic Ocean for another week with less power, though. Since the Nares Strait is virtually open, the overall ice drift direction targets the region from there to Fram Strait and Barenst Sea. In short: strong multi-year ice seeks warm Atlantic.
-> continue readingSen. Lisa Murkowski (R) Floor Speech: America is an Arctic Nation
Comprehensive and condensed speech (10min), 90% about opportunities, 5% environment, 5% risks.
Script: Last week I was honored to participate in a historic trip...
Video: Sea Ice Coverage from 1978 to 2008
credit: polarbearsinternat@youtube
Description: This video shows the changes in Arctic sea ice coverage from 1978 to 2008. It was developed by Ignatius G. Rigor at the University of Washington, Seattle Applied Physics Lab.
The pulses depict the annual expansion and contraction of the sea ice from winter to summer. Pay attention to how much ice coverage there is in 1978 compared with the video's end in 2008. The red dots represent the buoys that measure the ice.
Looks like multi-year-ice plugs Fram Strait very well.
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