Antarctic sea ice extent are characterized by fairly large variations from year to year. A year on ice is a visually stunning journey to the end of the world with the hardy and devoted people who live there yearround. A year on ice is a visually stunning journey to the end of the world with the hardy and devoted people who live. Scientists suspect changing global winds around antarctica and the ozone hole are the primary causes. This multi award winning feature film is a visually stunning chronicle of what it is like to live in antarctica for a full year, including the never before seen deep antarctic winter, completely isolated from the rest of the world, while enduring months. Though life in antarctica is challenging, this absorbing movie makes it look incredibly rewarding. The monthly average extent can vary by as much as 1.
A year on ice is a visually stunning journey to the end of the world with the hardy and devoted people who live there. A year on ice is not your normal nature documentary. A year on ice soundtrack from 20, composed by plan 9. A year on ice antzworks 2015 pg bluray version this is a documentary from a filmmaker previously unknown to me. Guided by nature photographer anthony powell, we experience firsthand the beauty and brutality of the most severe environment on earth along with the hardy and devoted people who call it home year round. A study conducted this year estimated that during the pleistocene, the east antarctic ice sheet eais thinned by at least 500 m 1,600 ft, and that thinning since the last glacial maximum for the eais area is less than 50 m 160 ft and probably started after.
But this past summer, earth scientists were startled to see antarctic sea ice take a nosedive, too. Year on ice most film crews that visit antarctica are only there for a few short months over the summer season. A year on ice, suffering frozen camera equipment and other setbacks. Shot in antarctica over the course of 10 years, it includes, as one might hope, some breathtaking timelapse. Quantarctica is a collection of antarctic geographical datasets which works with the free, crossplatform, opensource software qgis. A year on ice is the first feature film by new zealand filmmaker anthony b. It covers an area of almost 14 million square kilometres 5. Yesterday, scientists from the national snow and ice data center announced the ultimate sign of spring. The disappearance of arctic sea ice is a welldocumented trend with a wellestablished cause.
Antarctic seaice expansion between 2000 and 2014 driven. Antarctic sea ice crashed this year and scientists dont. Antarctic sea ice extent in september and february has increased somewhat over time, although the most recent year was below average. This year, however, the sea ice at our planets south pole is crashing, and scientists dont know why. Pg 1h 31min documentary, adventure, biography 28 november 2014 usa. Over 10 years in the making by frozen planet photographer anthony powell. The most visible change in the arctic region in recent years has been the rapid decline of the perennial ice cover. Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film festival awards central festival central all events. The donut of floating sea ice surrounding antarctica froze to a new record of nearly 7. A visually stunning chronicle of what it is like to live in antarctica for a full year, including winters isolated from the rest of the world, and enduring months of darkness in.
There is a problem in the bit that reproduces the last 30 years of sea ice variability. Nsidc with the arctic warming twice as fast as the rest of the globe, arctic summer sea ice has declined by about 30 percent since 1979. Footage for this film has been meticulously gathered for the last 10 years, including 9 winterovers, isolated from the rest of the world. Antarctic winter sea ice extent sets new record in 2014.
Powell apparently spent 10 years making antarctica. With anthony powell, genevieve bachman, william brotman, michael christiansen. Best of all, quantarctica is free to download and redistribute. Antarctic seaice extent has been slowly increasing in the satellite record that began in 1979 1,2. Courtesy of national snow and ice data center and nasa. Antarctic sea ice, on the other hand, has not been considered a climate change indicator. Antarctica nearing sea ice record, but arctic ice still. The research stations scattered throughout the continent host a closeknit international population of scientists, technicians and craftsmen. A year on ice might seem routine to fans of nature documentaries, but the photographer and director anthony powell produces some dazzling imagery in. Three years of measurements from cryosat show that the antarctic ice sheet is now losing 159 billion tonnes of ice each year, enough to raise global sea levels by 0. Even though ice is growing this time of year in antarctica, levels in may and june this year were the lowest on record, eclipsing 2017, according to the ice data center. Nasas operation icebridge recently completed its 2014 antarctic campaign, marking the missions sixth set of flights over antarctica.
A visually stunning chronicle of what it is like to live in antarctica for a full year, including winters isolated from the rest of the world, and enduring months of darkness in the coldest place on earth. A year on ice official trailer 1 2014 documentary hd antarctica. Antarctica has six months of daylight followed by six months of darkness. Quantarctica norsk polarinstitutt norsk polarinstitutt.
A year on ice stars genevieve bachman, william brotman, michael christiansen, tom hamann the pg movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 31 min, and received a. Guided by nature photographer anthony powell, we experience firsthand the beauty and brutality of the most severe. The antarctic ice sheet is one of the two polar ice caps of the earth. By cecelia smithschoenwalder, staff writer july 1, 2019 by cecelia smithschoenwalder, staff. Antarctic sea ice coverage plunges world report us news. Guided by nature photographer anthony powell, we experience firsthand the beauty and brutality of the most severe environment on earth along with the hardy and devoted people who call it home yearround.
By activating, you agree that you want to enable cloud technology to access your xfinity stream subscription on additional supported devices like computers and tablets, as well as the tv connected to your settop dvr via comcasts network. This visualization shows the perennial arctic sea ice from 1979 to 2014. This ice that spans multiple years represents the thickest component of the sea ice cover. During the sixweeklong deployment from punta arenas, chile, researchers aboard nasas dc8 airborne laboratory measured land and sea ice from above to continue building a record of change in the antarctic. While the antarctic sea ice yearly wintertime maximum extent hit record highs from 2012 to 2014 before returning to. It contains 70% of the planets freshwater and 90% of the worlds ice. A year on ice full movie where to download antarctica. Huge snowfall increases over antarctica could counter sea. Isolated from the rest of the world, enduring months of unending darkness followed by periods when the sun never. But on october 7, 2014, the national snow and ice data center nsidc reported that antarctic sea ice extent set a new record high for daily extent.
Since the late 1990s, the increase has accelerated, but the average of. Floating antarctic ice goes from record high to record. A year on ice is a visually stunning journey to the end of. He doesnt focus on what the stations actually research, he rarely interviews scientists, and the climate crisis is only briefly alluded to. A year on ice is a visually stunning journey to the end of the world with the hardy and devoted people who live there year round.
United states mcmurdo station and new zealands scott base it chronicles a year of time spent living and working at these remote stations. Antarctica and the arctic are two very different environments. Since 1980, the antarctic has gained about 7 thousand square miles of ice. A year on ice is a visually stunning journey to the end of the world. A visually stunning chronicle of what it is like to live in antarctica for a whole year from the point of view of the everyday workers. The perennial ice is the portion of the sea ice floating on the surface of the ocean that survives the summer. The highest point on antarctica is vinson massif at 4,982m 16,345 ft and the lowest point is the bentley subglacial trench at 2,555m. A cubic kilometer of ice weighs approximately one metric gigaton. Researchers found a quite remarkable decline in sea ice coverage in the antarctic since 2014. It covers about 98% of the antarctic continent and is the largest single mass of ice on earth. It was made with some assistance from the new zealand film commission and it is exactly what the title implies. Explorers spend a year in the southernmost continent. This documentary is set in antarctica, specifically in the ross island region, which is home to two research bases.
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