Recession of the Jorge Montt Glacier, Patagonia: Image of the Day (2000)
2000 · Short film
Synopsis
A new study of the Patagonia Icefields in South America by NASA and Chile's Centro de Estudios Cientificos concludes the icefields -- the largest non-Antarctic ice masses in the Southern Hemisphere -- are thinning at an accelerating pace, faster than other areas on the planet. The runoff from these melting icefields is contributing to an ongoing rise in global sea level. ) Conventional topographic data from the 1970s and 1990s were compared with data from NASA's February 2000 Shuttle Radar…
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