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Pine Island Glacier and Pine Island Bay

Ken Mankoff — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:52:05 +0000

Pine Island Glacier and Pine Island Bay

Pine Island Bay in the southeast Amundsen Sea, Antarctica, on 16 Nov 2008. Upwelling, melt-laden outflow plumes emerge from beneath the adjacent Pine Island Glacier ice shelf (top center) and mix in the bay waters. Warm red colors show sea surface temperatures more than a degree warmer than the near-freezing dark blue color. Cyclonic circulation in the bay is framed by the ice shelf, land ice and sea ice, in gray-scale with the darker shades colder. Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus image, thermal infrared (channel 6H), subset of scene #LE72331132008321EDC00.

@article{Mankoff:2012The-role,
	Title = {{The role of Pine Island Glacier ice shelf basal
                  channels in deep water upwelling, polynyas, and
                  ocean circulation in Pine Island Bay, Antarctica}},
	Author = {Kenneth D. Mankoff and Stanley S. Jacobs and
                  Slawek M. Tulaczyk and Sharon E. Stammerjohn},
	Journal = {Annals of Glaciology},
	Number = {60},
	Volume = {53},
	Year = {2012}}

Road Trip Photos

Ken Mankoff — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 05:41:09 +0000

We have uploaded photos from our cross-country road trip.

The Road Trip is Over

Ken Mankoff — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:04:20 +0000

Our ~5000 mile road-trip (NYC to Santa Cruz, CA) is over. Some thoughts accumulated on the way:

18 wheelers really do have 18 wheels, but the quad-segmented Fedex trucks (cab + 3 trailers) have 26 wheels.

We managed to pass about 15 vehicles. That is what happens when you drive an old RV that gets wobbly over 60 mph.

A/C is over-rated. Roll your windows down. Feel the heat.

Utah is once again and still the most amazing state to visit if you want to live on Mars

The mid-west may be flat and full of fields, but it is beautiful. Especially Iowa.

AT&T has terrible signal west of the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains. Verizon has excellent 3G coverage coast to coast except in some Utah canyons.

And of course photos… I’ll upload them soon to a new album.

Road Trip

Ken Mankoff — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:53:21 +0000

We’re driving from New York City to Santa Cruz, CA. We’ve kitted out our camper with mobile wireless. The SSID is “GoGoCamperGo”. My wife has set up a live-stream of the drive and I’m broadcasting GPS stats. The camera and GPS will be on whenever we’re driving, and sometimes when we are parked. Updates may appear here and here.

You can access the road trip page here: http://kenmankoff.com/nyc2ca

Go Go Camper Go

Road Trip

Ken Mankoff — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:07:04 +0000

We are going to drive across the U.S.A from New York, New York to Santa Cruz, California. Trip duration is 25 days. We are currently in the planning stages. If you have any suggestions of interesting places to visit, please let us know. Either comment below on this post, or edit our map and add a placemark.

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