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June 23, 2023 - Thawing on Greenland's East Coast

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   June 22, 2023 February 22, 2023
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   As the Earth’s largest island, Greenland dominates the North Atlantic
   Ocean, substantially filling the watery gap between North America and
   Europe. Stretching about 1,660 miles (2,670 m) from north to south,
   two-thirds of Greenland lies within the Arctic Circle. Bounded by the
   North Atlantic Ocean in the south and the Greenland Sea on the east,
   Greenland's northern coast reaches the Arctic Ocean.

   Given the high-north location, the climate is cold in summer and frigid
   in winter. About 80 percent of Greenland is covered by an ancient ice
   sheet year-round, while winter’s weather tops the island with snow as
   sea ice forms along the coastline. As daylight lengthens and
   temperatures rise in the spring, sea ice begins to break up and melt.
   Greenland’s melting season typically starts in May and ends in
   September.

   On June 23, 2023, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
   (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite acquired a true-color image of summer
   melt well underway in Eastern Greenland. While thin ice still floats on
   most of the rivers and fjords along the coast, the thick fast ice that
   clung to the coastline and over the Greenland Sea during the winter has
   given way to bergy bits and growlers, with only a thin margin of fast
   ice remaining. Bergy bits are medium to large fragments of ice, while
   growlers are smaller—roughly the size of a truck or grand piano.

   The June 23 scene, which shows active melt in Eastern Greenland can be
   easily compared to an image of the same area acquired by the MODIS on
   Terra on February 22, 2023, by clicking on the dates under the image.
   The mid-winter scene shows smooth, thick fast ice covering all
   waterways, clinging to the coast, and reaching far into the Greenland
   Sea. In both images, a bank of cloud covers the Greenland Sea near the
   eastern edge of the image.

   Image Facts
   Satellite:  Terra
   Date Acquired: 6/23/2023
   Resolutions:  1km (295.8 KB),  500m (952.2 KB),  250m (2.6 MB)
   Bands Used: 1,4,3
   Image Credit: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC



https://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/individual.php?db_date=2023-06-23
 
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