e-GEOS is monitoring the Petermann Glacier
since the 2010 using both Modis (optical) and COSMO-SkyMed (RADAR) data.
On August 5, 2010, an enormous chunk of ice, roughly 97 square miles in size, broke off the Petermann Glacier, along the northwestern coast of Greenland.
The glacier lost about one-quarter of its 40-mile long floating ice shelf, the Northern Hemisphere's largest.
It's not unusual for large icebergs to calve off the Petermann Glacier, but this new one is the largest to form in the Arctic since 1962.
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