National Weather Digest WEATHER SATELLITE VIEWS ICEBERG
the size of the state of Rhode Island, broke away from Ant-arctica and was drifting in the Ross Sea. The iceberg broke from the Ross Ice Shelf, a region of freshwater ice formed from snow, at a point called the Bay of Whales. Icebergs often break away from the Antarctic ice shelves where they are af...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.665.2845 2023-05-15T13:34:14+02:00 National Weather Digest WEATHER SATELLITE VIEWS ICEBERG Henry W. Br She Lf The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives 1987 application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.665.2845 http://nwas.org/digest/papers/1988/Vol13-Issue2-May1988/Pg16-Brandli.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.665.2845 http://nwas.org/digest/papers/1988/Vol13-Issue2-May1988/Pg16-Brandli.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://nwas.org/digest/papers/1988/Vol13-Issue2-May1988/Pg16-Brandli.pdf text 1987 ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T17:04:00Z the size of the state of Rhode Island, broke away from Ant-arctica and was drifting in the Ross Sea. The iceberg broke from the Ross Ice Shelf, a region of freshwater ice formed from snow, at a point called the Bay of Whales. Icebergs often break away from the Antarctic ice shelves where they are affected by weather and tidal forces. This new iceberg (B 9) equaled two to three times the amount of ice that normally breaks free in a year. On 19 February 1988, the Defense Meteorological Satellite (DMSP) obtained a visual view of the iceberg (Fig. I). The iceberg was about 25 miles wide and 98 miles long, for an area of2,450 square miles and estimated at 750 feet thick. An interesting concept appeared in a recent issue ofInsight Magazine: "Equatorial lands in need offresh water may soon have access to a new source, Antarctic icebergs. Soviet sci- Text Antarc* Antarctic Ice Shelf Ice Shelves Iceberg* Ross Ice Shelf Ross Sea Unknown Antarctic Bay of Whales ENVELOPE(-170.000,-170.000,-77.833,-77.833) Ross Ice Shelf Ross Sea The Antarctic |
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the size of the state of Rhode Island, broke away from Ant-arctica and was drifting in the Ross Sea. The iceberg broke from the Ross Ice Shelf, a region of freshwater ice formed from snow, at a point called the Bay of Whales. Icebergs often break away from the Antarctic ice shelves where they are affected by weather and tidal forces. This new iceberg (B 9) equaled two to three times the amount of ice that normally breaks free in a year. On 19 February 1988, the Defense Meteorological Satellite (DMSP) obtained a visual view of the iceberg (Fig. I). The iceberg was about 25 miles wide and 98 miles long, for an area of2,450 square miles and estimated at 750 feet thick. An interesting concept appeared in a recent issue ofInsight Magazine: "Equatorial lands in need offresh water may soon have access to a new source, Antarctic icebergs. Soviet sci- |
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