{"id":10626,"date":"2012-06-14T23:58:49","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T23:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=10626"},"modified":"2012-06-18T15:55:38","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T15:55:38","slug":"close-to-ice-break-out-at-barrow-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/10626","title":{"rendered":"Close to ice break-up at Barrow, Alaska?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/06\/120614_suomi_npp_viirs_vis_nir_AK_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.64 \u00c2\u00b5m visible and 1.61 \u00c2\u00b5m near-IR images\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/06\/120614_suomi_npp_viirs_vis_nir_AK_anim.gif\" alt=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.64 \u00c2\u00b5m visible and 1.61 \u00c2\u00b5m near-IR images\" width=\"480\" height=\"435\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.64 \u00c2\u00b5m visible and 1.61 \u00c2\u00b5m near-IR images<\/p><\/div>\n<p>AWIPS images of Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.64 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel and 1.61 \u00c2\u00b5m near-IR channel data <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed that there was a wide ice-free passage leading from the Bering Sea northward and northeastward through the Chukchi Sea toward Barrow, Alaska <em>(station identifier PABR)<\/em> on <strong>14 June 2012<\/strong>. On the visible image, ice and optically thick clouds were brighter white, while on the near-IR image ice and water looked very dark (with supercooled water droplet clouds taking on a brighter appearance). Additional information on ice break-up at Barrow is available from the <a title=\"Sea Ice Group, University of Alaska Fairbanks\" href=\"http:\/\/seaice.alaska.edu\/gi\/observatories\/barrow_breakup\"><strong>Sea Ice Group<\/strong><\/a> at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AWIPS images of Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.64 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel and 1.61 \u00c2\u00b5m near-IR channel data (above) showed that there was a wide ice-free passage leading from the Bering Sea northward and northeastward through the Chukchi Sea toward Barrow, Alaska (station identifier PABR) on 14 June 2012. On the visible image, ice and optically thick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arctic","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10628,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10626\/revisions\/10628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}