{"id":629,"date":"2008-03-10T14:44:50","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T14:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/629"},"modified":"2008-03-28T00:47:56","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T00:47:56","slug":"collaspe-of-the-wilkins-ice-shelf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/629","title":{"rendered":"Collapse of the Wilkins Ice Shelf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/03\/080310_modis_ice_shelf.jpg\" title=\"MODIS visible image\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/03\/080310_modis_ice_shelf.jpg\" title=\"MODIS visible image\" alt=\"MODIS visible image\" align=\"middle\" height=\"356\" width=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/nsidc.org\/news\/press\/20080325_Wilkins.html\" title=\"National Snow and Ice Data Center story\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>National Snow and Ice Data Center<\/strong><\/a>, a large portion of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wilkins_Ice_Shelf\" title=\"Wilkins Ice Shelf (Wikipedia)\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Wilkins Ice Shelf<\/strong><\/a> in the Antarctic <em>(<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/nsidc.org\/data\/iceshelves_images\/\" title=\"Map of Antarctic ice shelves\" target=\"_blank\">map<\/a><\/strong>)<\/em> began to collapse during late February and early March 2008. A Terra MODIS visible image  <em><strong>(above; <\/strong>courtesy of Shelley Knuth, SSEC<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/amrc.ssec.wisc.edu\/index.html\" title=\"Antarctic Meteorological Research Center\" target=\"_blank\">Antarctic Meteorological Research Center<\/a><\/strong><\/em><em><strong>)<\/strong><\/em> shows the extent of ice shelf disintegration on <strong>10 March 2008.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The latest real-time IR satellite composite and Antarctic synoptic analysis chart from the SSEC <a href=\"http:\/\/amrc.ssec.wisc.edu\/index.html\" title=\"Antarctic Meteorological Research Center\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>AMRC<\/strong><\/a> is shown below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amrc.ssec.wisc.edu\/~amrc\/Antarctic_Synoptic_Chart.GIF\" title=\"SSEC AMRC IR image + synoptic analysis\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/amrc.ssec.wisc.edu\/~amrc\/Antarctic_Synoptic_Chart.GIF\" title=\"SSEC AMRC IR image + synoptic analysis\" alt=\"SSEC AMRC IR image + synoptic analysis\" align=\"middle\" height=\"479\" width=\"479\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, a large portion of the Wilkins Ice Shelf in the Antarctic (map) began to collapse during late February and early March 2008. A Terra MODIS visible image (above; courtesy of Shelley Knuth, SSEC Antarctic Meteorological Research Center) shows the extent of ice shelf disintegration on 10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antarctic","category-general-interpretation","category-modis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","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=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}