Waves by Air and Sea

About 250 kilometers from the Antarctic mainland, the ice-capped tops of the Balleny Islands protrude from theSouthern Ocean. Located near the intersection of opposing wind and current systems, the archipelagos threemain islands can be battered by weather from all sides.But when satellites acquired...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lieser, JL
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: EOS Project Science Office, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 2017
Subjects:
Earth Sciences
Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience
Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience not elsewhere classified
Antarctic
The Antarctic
Balleny Islands
Antarc*
Online Access:https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=91372
http://ecite.utas.edu.au/122984
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Summary:About 250 kilometers from the Antarctic mainland, the ice-capped tops of the Balleny Islands protrude from theSouthern Ocean. Located near the intersection of opposing wind and current systems, the archipelagos threemain islands can be battered by weather from all sides.But when satellites acquired these images on November 26, 2017, the winds were probably not that turbulent,allowing the formation of organized wave patterns in the clouds and at the oceans surface. Jan Lieser, a marineglaciologist from Australias Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Center, noticed the curiouspatterns while browsing satellite images.

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