{"id":24462,"date":"2017-07-12T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T06:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=24462"},"modified":"2017-07-14T17:30:48","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T17:30:48","slug":"large-iceberg-breaks-off-the-larsen-c-ice-shelf-in-antarctica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/24462","title":{"rendered":"Large iceberg breaks off the Larsen-C ice shelf in Antarctica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/07\/170712_0326z_viirs_DayNightBand_Infrared_Larsen_C_iceberg_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/07\/170712_0326z_viirs_DayNightBand_Infrared_Larsen_C_iceberg_anim.gif\" alt=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) images [click to enlarge]\" width=\"640\" height=\"443\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suomi NPP VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) images [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>A comparison of Suomi NPP VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) images on 12 July 2017 <em><strong>(above; <\/strong>courtesy of William Straka, SSEC<strong>)<\/strong><\/em> shows the large iceberg (named <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/07\/USNIC_IcebergA68_LarsenC_press_release.pdf\"><strong>A-68<\/strong><\/a>) that had separated from the Larsen-C ice shelf in Antarctica (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectmidas.org\/blog\/calving\/\"><strong>Project MIDAS<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>===== 13 July Update =====<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A 12 July vs 13 July comparison of VIIRS Infrared Window and Day\/Night Band images<em><strong> (below)<\/strong><\/em> revealed a slight expansion of the ice fracture, as Iceberg A-68 slowly drifted away from the Larsen-C ice shelf.<\/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\/2017\/07\/170712_170713_viirs_Infrared_Larsen_C_iceberg_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/07\/170712_170713_viirs_Infrared_Larsen_C_iceberg_anim.gif\" alt=\"12 July vs 13 July Suomi NPP VIIRS Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) images [click to enlarge]\" width=\"640\" height=\"443\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">12 July vs 13 July Suomi NPP VIIRS Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) images [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div><div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/07\/170712_170713_viirs_DayNightBand_Larsen_C_iceberg_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/07\/170712_170713_viirs_DayNightBand_Larsen_C_iceberg_anim.gif\" alt=\"12 July vs 13 July Suomi NPP VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m) images [click to enlarge]\" width=\"640\" height=\"443\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">12 July vs 13 July Suomi NPP VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m) images [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A comparison of Suomi NPP VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) images on 12 July 2017 (above; courtesy of William Straka, SSEC) shows the large iceberg (named A-68) that had separated from the Larsen-C ice shelf in Antarctica (Project MIDAS). ===== 13 July Update ===== A 12 July vs 13 July [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":24468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antarctic","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24462","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=24462"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24492,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24462\/revisions\/24492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}