{"id":21536,"date":"2016-07-02T23:59:03","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T23:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=21536"},"modified":"2016-07-09T17:23:46","modified_gmt":"2016-07-09T17:23:46","slug":"ice-floes-off-the-coast-of-labrador-and-newfoundland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/21536","title":{"rendered":"Ice floes off the coast of Labrador and Newfoundland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by this as seen on Twitter:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Not a hurricane&#8230;sea ice caught in an eddy off of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Via a pilot friend of mine. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bpAxLqMPSN\">pic.twitter.com\/bpAxLqMPSN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kyle Roberts (@KyleWeather) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KyleWeather\/status\/749685018050514946\">July 3, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>we decided to take a look at some satellite imagery. GOES-13 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em> Visible (0.63 \u00b5m) images<em><strong> (below)<\/strong><\/em> captured the fluid motion of ice floes off the coast of Labrador and Newfoundland on 02 July 2016.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/07\/960x1280_AGOES13_CONUS_B1_ICE_LOOP_VIS_animated_2016184_100000_180_2016184_220000_180_EB_ICE.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/07\/960x1280_AGOES13_B1_ICE_LOOP_VIS_2016184_151500_0001PANEL.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-13 Visible (0.63 \u00b5m) images [click to play animation]\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-13 Visible (0.63 \u00b5m) images [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>A comparison of Terra MODIS true-color and false-color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) images viewed using <a href=\"http:\/\/realearth.ssec.wisc.edu\"><strong>RealEarth<\/strong><\/a><em><strong> (below)<\/strong><\/em> aided in the discrimination of cloud vs ice\/snow &#8212; in the false-color images, snow\/ice appeared as shades of cyan, in contrast to supercooled water droplet clouds which appeared as shades of white.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/07\/160702_1508utc_terra_modis_truecolor_falsecolor_Labrador_sea_ice_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/07\/160702_1508utc_terra_modis_truecolor_falsecolor_Labrador_sea_ice_anim.gif\" alt=\"Terra MODIS true-color and false-color images [click to enlarge]\" width=\"640\" height=\"393\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Terra MODIS true-color and false-color images [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>An alternative RGB image for use in the discrimination of cloud vs snow\/ice is shown below; in this particular false-color RGB image, snow\/ice features appear as shades of red. Surface observations at the time of the Terra MODIS image are plotted in yellow.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/07\/160702_1508utc_terra_modis_rgb_Labrador_ice_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/07\/160702_1508utc_terra_modis_rgb_Labrador_ice_anim.gif\" alt=\"Terra MODIS Visible (0.65 \u00b5m) and False-color images [click to enlarge]\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Terra MODIS Visible (0.65 \u00b5m) and False-color images [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>2 days later, 04 July maps from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ec.gc.ca\/glaces-ice\/\"><strong>Canadian Ice Service<\/strong><\/a><em><strong> (below)<\/strong><\/em> indicated that much of these larger ice floes consisted of thick first-year ice with concentrations in the range of 4-6\/10ths to 8-10\/10ths; the existence of such ice concentration at this particular location was 4-6\/10ths to 9-10\/10ths above normal.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/07\/160704_ice_concentration_stage_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/07\/160704_ice_concentration_stage_anim.gif\" alt=\"Ice Concentration and Ice Stage maps for 04 July [click to enlarge]\" width=\"640\" height=\"535\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ice Concentration and Ice Stage maps for 04 July [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div><div style=\"width: 649px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/07\/160704_ice_departure_from_normal.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/07\/160704_ice_departure_from_normal.gif\" alt=\"Ice concentration Departure From Normal [click to enlarge]\" width=\"639\" height=\"494\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ice concentration Departure From Normal [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by this as seen on Twitter: Not a hurricane&#8230;sea ice caught in an eddy off of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Via a pilot friend of mine. pic.twitter.com\/bpAxLqMPSN \u2014 Kyle Roberts (@KyleWeather) July 3, 2016 we decided to take a look at some satellite imagery. GOES-13 (GOES-East) Visible (0.63 \u00b5m) images (below) captured the fluid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":21538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,53,45,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-modis","category-real-earth","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-terra"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21536","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=21536"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21595,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21536\/revisions\/21595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}