Climate Security Wins a Round
| Thu Jul. 16, 2009 7:59 PM PDT
I would never have believed it, but... just hours after the National Research Council requested that hundreds of classified images of the Arctic be released for scientific study of climate change—as I reported yesterday—Voila!—the Interior Department did just that.
Seven hundred images of sea ice from half a dozen sites around the Arctic, plus 500 images from 22 sites in the US can now be viewed online.
Oh, and they're seriously gorgeous. If you have enough bandwidth to open them.
Reuters reports the Arctic images have a resolution of 1 meter, a vast improvement on available pictures with resolutions of 15 to 30 meters.
The higher definition pictures reveal small features with big impacts on warming—like dark melt pools on top of the ice that absorb light and heat. These images will vastly improve the accuracy of forecast modelling.
Scientists were expecting the request for the Arctic images to be declassified to take months—at least.
But apparently someone in Washington digs science and actually understands something about climate security and the perils of thin ice.
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