Melt ponds
by Michael Tjernström, Department of Meteorology, Stockholm University, Stockholm , Sweden
Ponds of melted freshwater (snow) on top of sea ice in summer. Photo is taken from the Swedish icebreaker Oden during the "Arctic Summer Cloud Ocean Study" in 2008; part of the International Polar Year.
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- Polar regions (196)
- Arctic (77)
- Exact location (0.0000 , 81.0000 N)
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3264 × 2448 px;
image/jpeg; 3.2 MB
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Olympus E-500
Taken on 8
October
2008
Submitted on 28 February 2016
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Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0)
Credit
Michael Tjernström (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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