Baffin Bay and Baffin Island, North Canada

Summer is finally beginning to thaw Canada's Baffin Island (center) and the Labrador Sea (lower right). This MODIS image shows that a river of ice still remains in the Davis Strait, which connects the Labrador Sea and Baffin Bay to the north.

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Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team

Published July 6, 2001
Data acquired July 6, 2001

Source:

Terra > MODIS

Topics:

Cryosphere > Snow/Ice > Freeze/Thaw

Cryosphere > Snow/Ice > Ice Growth/Melt

Cryosphere > Snow/Ice > River Ice