Dr. Roy’s Earth Today #6: Ice in the Greenland Sea

October 11th, 2014 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D.

Sea ice floes originating in the Arctic Ocean swirl in the currents off of the northeast coast of Greenland today (click for full size):

Ice swirls in currents off the northeast coast of Greenland (NASA Terra MODIS image, October 11, 2014, remapped into Google Earth).

Ice swirls in currents off the northeast coast of Greenland (NASA Terra MODIS image, October 11, 2014, remapped into Google Earth).

The ice sheet of Greenland can no longer be distinguished from fresh snow which has fallen on what was bare ground only a few weeks ago along the coast.


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