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Life on a Drifting Station15 viewsRecreation could include climbing the large ridges and hummocks on the ice station floe. These often reached 10 meters in height. During excursions like this, one of the men would typically carry a rifle for protection against polar bears. Image credit: EWG.
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Polar Bears17 viewsDogs provided companionship and entertainment for people living in the station camp, and they also alerted the camp when polar bears were present. Here, dogs are approaching a polar bear as it emerges from a lead (crack) in the ice. Image credit: EWG.
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Polar Bears16 viewsHere the dogs investigate the polar bear as the polar bear retreats. Image credit: EWG.
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Polar Bears26 viewsThe three dogs try to prevent the polar bear from coming out of the water, but the bear moves quickly and escapes into the icy terrain. Image credit: EWG.
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Polar Bears28 viewsBeyond the ridges of ice, dogs chase the polar bear, ensuring that it does not approach the camp. Image credit: EWG.
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Polar Bears26 viewsThis station member was just climbing around on the ridges and hummocks of the ice floe, but, like all who ventured away from camp, he carried a rifle for protection from polar bears. Image credit: EWG.
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Polar Bears37 viewsNot all of the ice phenomena on the ice floes were naturally occurring. Station members sometimes made the most of their surroundings, witnessed in this polar bear made of snow. Image credit: EWG.
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AVHRR Spatial Coverage358 viewsAVHRR Spatial Coverage Map of the Northern Hemisphere from the AVHRR Polar 1 km Level-1B Data Set. Blue boxes indicate individual AVHRR scenes for a single day.
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273 viewsThe SnowNet team found polar bear tracks.
Image courtesy Mark Serreze, NSIDC.
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366 viewsA sample browse image of SSM/I brightness temperature data for the Northern Hemisphere 25-km EASE-Grid, 37 GHz, horizontally polarized brightness temperatures for descending passes only acquired on 01 January 2008 from the DMSP SSM/I Pathfinder Daily EASE-Grid Brightness Temperatures data set.
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245 viewsGetting ready for a long journey by dogsled, Shari Gearheard and Yvon Csonka don polar bear pants.
Image courtesy Andy Mahoney.
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240 viewsArtist's conception of a polar-orbiting operational environmental (POES) satellite carrying the AVHRR instrument. Many POES satellites are managed and maintained by NOAA. For more information please see the AVHRR Web site.
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