{"id":36086,"date":"2020-03-31T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T23:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=36086"},"modified":"2020-04-15T18:09:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T18:09:10","slug":"what-has-the-large-iceberg-a68-been-up-to-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/36086","title":{"rendered":"What has the Large Iceberg (A68) been up to this year?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 651px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/03\/daily_cimss.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/03\/GOES-16_ABI_RadF_cimss_true_color_2020040_153007Z.png\" alt=\"GOES-16 True Color RGB images [click to play animation]\" width=\"641\" height=\"534\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 True Color RGB images [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/03\/daily_cimss.mp4\">MP4<\/a>]<\/p><\/div>A very large iceberg broke off the Larsen-C Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula in <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/07\/USNIC_IcebergA68_LarsenC_press_release.pdf\">July 2017<\/a>\u00a0(recall this <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/24462\">CIMSS Satellite Blog<\/a> post). While NOAA&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/03\/GOES-16_ABI_RadF_cimss_true_color_2020040_153007Z.png\">GOES-16 ABI<\/a> visible sensors may not be ideal, they can monitor the iceberg&#8217;s location if the cloud cover is not too thick. The animation above shows the first 31 days of 2020, with just one image per day. More information from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.natice.noaa.gov\/\">National Ice Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T to @annamaria_84 for this tweet using Sentinel3 images:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The drift of A68 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/iceberg?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#iceberg<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Antarctica?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Antarctica<\/a> ?? continues.<br \/>\nImages acquired by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Sentinel3?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Sentinel3<\/a> between December 2019 &#8211; March2020<\/p>\n<p>cc <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sentinel_hub?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@sentinel_hub<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CopernicusEU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CopernicusEU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Antarcticacl?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Antarcticacl<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ahe7tDS0n8\">pic.twitter.com\/Ahe7tDS0n8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Annamaria Luongo (@annamaria_84) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/annamaria_84\/status\/1244749026416885760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 30, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;Update&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a similar loop (mp4), but showing hourly GOES-16 &#8220;natural color&#8221; (composite) imagery, click to play animation:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-36086-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/04\/hourly-A68_cimss_1min.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/04\/hourly-A68_cimss_1min.mp4\">https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/04\/hourly-A68_cimss_1min.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very large iceberg broke off the Larsen-C Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula in July 2017\u00a0(recall this CIMSS Satellite Blog post). While NOAA&#8217;s GOES-16 ABI visible sensors may not be ideal, they can monitor the iceberg&#8217;s location if the cloud cover is not too thick. The animation above shows the first 31 days of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":36101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,10,74,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antarctic","category-general-interpretation","category-goes-16","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36086","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36086"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36261,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36086\/revisions\/36261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}