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Pine Island retreat
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- Title Pine Island retreat
- Released: 27/03/2014
- Length 00:02:20
- Language English
- Footage Type Animation
- Copyright Planetary Visions / University of Edinburgh / University of Leeds / ESA
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Pine Island is the largest glacier in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and one of the fastest ice streams on the continent, flowing into Pine Island Bay in the Amundsen Sea. Ten percent of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet drains out to the sea by way of this glacier. Radar data from the two ERS missions show that from 1992–2011 the glacier thinned by about 200 m, and its grounding line retreated up to 40 km. This animation is based on data from the of the STSE-GreenSAR project.
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- Activity Observing the Earth
- Mission ERS-1, ERS-2
- System ERS-1 Satellite, ERS-2 Satellite
- Location Antarctic
- Keywords Climate, Climate Change, Earth observation , Glaciers, Global sea level, Global warming, Ice cap, Ice sheets, Ice thickness
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