{"id":39414,"date":"2020-12-26T21:59:50","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T21:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=39414"},"modified":"2020-12-28T04:30:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T04:30:18","slug":"the-breakup-of-iceberg-a68a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/39414","title":{"rendered":"The breakup of Iceberg A68a"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 652px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/12\/201214_201226_goes16_visible_IcebergA68a_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/12\/GOES-16_ABI_RadF_C02_2020360_160021Z.png\" alt=\"GOES-16 \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images [click to play animation | MP4]\" width=\"642\" height=\"642\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-16 \u201cRed\u201d Visible <em>(0.64 \u00b5m)<\/em> images [click to play animation | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/12\/201214_201226_goes16_visible_IcebergA68a_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>A sequence of GOES-16 <em>(GOES-East)<\/em> \u201cRed\u201d Visible (<a href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/OCLOFactSheetPDFs\/ABIQuickGuide_Band02.pdf\"><strong>0.64 \u00b5m<\/strong><\/a>) images covering the 14 December &#8211; 26 December 2020 period <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed that after Iceberg A68a encountered the more shallow continental shelf waters southwest of South Georgia island earlier in the month (<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/12\/201202_201213_noaa20_viirs_trueColorRGB_IcebergA68a_anim.gif\"><strong>NOAA-20 True Color RGB images, 02-13 December<\/strong><\/a>), the large iceberg then began to move south-southeastward, shear apart and release 3 smaller orphan icebergs (in addition to widespread small ice floes).<\/p>\n<p>A toggle between NOAA-20 VIIRS True Color RGB images on 23 December and 25 December viewed using <a href=\"http:\/\/realearth.ssec.wisc.edu\"><strong>RealEarth<\/strong><\/a> <em><strong>(below)<\/strong> <\/em>provided a higher-resolution view of the numerous small ice floes that resulted from the iceberg fracturing process.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 651px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/12\/201223_201225_noaa20_viirs_trueColorRGB_IcebergA68a_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2020\/12\/201223_201225_noaa20_viirs_trueColorRGB_IcebergA68a_anim.gif\" alt=\"NOAA-20 VIIRS True Color RGB images [click to enlarge]\" width=\"641\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">NOAA-20 VIIRS True Color RGB images [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sequence of GOES-16 (GOES-East) \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images covering the 14 December &#8211; 26 December 2020 period (above) showed that after Iceberg A68a encountered the more shallow continental shelf waters southwest of South Georgia island earlier in the month (NOAA-20 True Color RGB images, 02-13 December), the large iceberg then began to move [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":39416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,78,53,45,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-16","category-noaa-20","category-real-earth","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39414","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=39414"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39420,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39414\/revisions\/39420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}