Material for the JPSS Short Course Hands-on Activity
"Using JPSS Products to Assess Snow and Ice Conditions for the Iditarod Sled Dog Race"

AMS Annual Meeting, 2018

Powerpoint Files

Cryosphere hands-on Activity (22 MB)

Pictures

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Alaskan Malamute (endurance)

Siberian Husky (speed)

Cross breed of Alaskan Malamute and Siberian Husky

Dog team crossing the Norton Sound

A racing dogsled

A schematic showing the arrangement of dog harnesses

Videos and Animations


Animation of VIIRS snow cover fraction over Alaska, March - July 2014

Animation of Northern Hemisphere multisensor snow and ice animation, 2013-2014

A musher's perspective of Norwegian dogsledding

Liftoff! NOAA's JPSS-1 Launches atop a Delta II Rocket on Nov 18, 2017

Picture Credit: Alaskan Husky: www.dogappy.com, Siberian Husky: www.dapsanimals.info, Alaskan Malamute: www.dapsanimals.info, Norton Sound dogsledding: www.w-uh.com/posts/140308a-Iditarod_day_7_PM.html, Racing Dogsled: animals-universe.info/dog/80206, Sled Schematic: personal.my180.net/thesmiths/iditarod/harness.html. Snow cover animations courtesy of Peter Romanov.