Previous Animation Next Animation Yearly Antarctic Sea Ice Minima from 1979 through 2008 This visualization shows Antarctic sea ice minima from 1979 through 2008. Near the end of each southern hemisphere summer (usually in February), the Antarctic sea ice cover reaches its minimum extent and what is left is called the perennial ice cover which consists mainly of thick multi-year ice floes.    Yearly Antarctic Sea Ice Minima from 1979 through 2008 without climatology (average from 1979 to 2008) Duration: 24.0 seconds Available formats:   640x360 (30 fps) MPEG-4   2 MB   1280x720 (30 fps) MPEG-4   9 MB   320x180     PNG           176 KB   160x80       PNG           48 KB   80x40         PNG           13 KB   1280x720 (30 fps) Frames (Without climatology) How to play our movies    Yearly Antarctic Sea Ice Minima from 1979 through 2008 with red climatology (average from 1979 to 2008) Duration: 24.0 seconds Available formats:   1280x720 (30 fps) MPEG-4   10 MB   640x360 (30 fps) MPEG-4   2 MB   1280x720 (30 fps) Frames (With climatology)   320x180     PNG           178 KB How to play our movies Animation Number: 3552 Completed: 2008-09-03 Animator: Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC) (Lead) Scientist: Josefino Comiso (NASA/GSFC) Platforms/Sensors/Data Sets: DMSP/SSM/I (SSMI sea ice data: 1979/02/17, 1980/03/01, 1981/02/18, 1982/02/21, 1983/02/24, 1984/02/19, 1985/02/19, 1986/02/28, 1987/02/21, 1988/02/24, 1989/02/16, 1990/02/21, 1991/02/28, 1992/02/21, 1993/02/14, 1994/02/11, 1995/02/14, 1996/02/20, 1997/02/19, 1998/02/17, 1999/02/21, 2000/02/16, 2001/02/19, 2002/02/16, 2003/02/16, 2004/02/20, 2005/02/14, 2006/02/19, 2007/02/19, 2008/02/16)   Comiso's Daily Sea Ice Concentration Keywords: DLESE >> Cryology SVS >> HDTV SVS >> Sea Ice GCMD >> EARTH SCIENCE >> Cryosphere >> Sea Ice GCMD >> EARTH SCIENCE >> Cryosphere >> Sea Ice >> Sea Ice Concentration SVS >> iPod     Please give credit for this item to: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio Thanks to Rob Gerston (GSFC) for providing the data. Back to Top

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