{"id":47071,"date":"2022-06-21T22:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=47071"},"modified":"2022-08-29T19:01:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T19:01:56","slug":"nearshore-ice-motion-in-the-beaufort-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/47071","title":{"rendered":"Nearshore ice motion in the Beaufort Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/06\/220621_220622_suomiNPP_viirs_visible_Beaufort_Sea_ice_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/06\/ak_ice-20220621_220232.png\" width=\"640\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suomi-NPP VIIRS Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images [click to play animated GIF | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/06\/220621_220622_suomiNPP_viirs_visible_Beaufort_Sea_ice_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>Suomi-NPP VIIRS Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed a variety of Beaufort Sea ice floe motion within the nearshore waters of Alaska and Yukon during the 20-21 June 2022 period. Just north of Utqiavik (or Barrow, PABR), a sharp &#8220;shear line&#8221; was seen on 20 June &#8212; with a narrow line of ice flows moving east-northeastward, directly adjacent to the the pack ice that was moving westward.<\/p>\n<p>Farther to the east (in the bottom right corner of this satellite scene), a fracture in the fast ice off the Yukon coastline led to the separation of a large ice floe on 21 June &#8212; which then drifted west-northwestward. Of note were the unusually warm surface air temperatures at stations near\/along the northern coastline of Yukon, with some temperature readings rising into the upper 50s and low 60s F.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suomi-NPP VIIRS Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images (above) showed a variety of Beaufort Sea ice floe motion within the nearshore waters of Alaska and Yukon during the 20-21 June 2022 period. Just north of Utqiavik (or Barrow, PABR), a sharp &#8220;shear line&#8221; was seen on 20 June &#8212; with a narrow line of ice flows moving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":47076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,108,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arctic","category-cryosphere","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47071","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=47071"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47683,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47071\/revisions\/47683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}