Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica Iceberg B-46 Calving Event

From Jeffrey Carpenter 9/30/2021

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In late October, 2018, West Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier released about 300 square kilometers (100 square miles) of ice. The largest iceberg, B46, was 226 square kilometers. With topography mapped by satellite and supercomputer in the REMA project, the AVL team animated the calving event centered around November 2018

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Date of creation: 9/6/2021 12:00 AM
Video credits: Visualization by Advanced Visualization Lab, NCSA, University of Illinois
Contributors and team members: DEM data created by the Polar Geospatial Center from DigitalGlobe, Inc. imagery; optical imagery from LANDSAT; radar mapping from ESA’s Sentinel-1 satellite.
Appears In: NCSA Advanced Visualization Lab CADENS NCSA

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