A 113km2 iceberg calves from Spalte Glacier, Greenland

Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 29 June 2020 at 08:34:25 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 29 June 2020 at 15:49:11 UTC
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Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 11 July 2020 at 08:34:26 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 14 July 2020 at 14:59:21 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Polar, cryosphere, iceberg, glacier, sea ice, ice sheet, climate change, global warming, Greenland, Arctic Ocean
Fig. 1 - S1 (29.06.2020) - A 113 km² iceberg calved from Spalte Glacier in Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden, Greenland.
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Fig. 2 - S1 (05.07.2020) - It highlights the progressive disintegration of the Arctic’s largest remaining ice shelf.
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Fig. 3 - S1 (11.07.2020) - Upstream is the only major Greenland ice sheet ice stream, draining 16 % of the inland ice reservoir.
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Fig. 4 - S2 (29.06.2020) - The Northeast Greenland Ice Stream extends 600 km into the interior of the ice sheet.
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It drains mainly through the two outlet glaciers Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden Glacier and Zachariae Glacier.
Fig. 5 - S2 (30.06.2020) - A large increase in ice loss by calving processes followed the loss of ice shelf of Zachariae Glacier in 2002-2015.
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Fig. 6 - S2 (05.07.2020) - For 2 consecutive years, the ice shelf of Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden Glacier is disintegrating at similar rates.
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024, processed by VisioTerra.
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