Spring comes, then summer, fall and winter and if you are off the planet with a camera looking down at Earth, the seasons seem like breaths. Speed up the imagery, and the planet seems to pulse, like a living thing.

Seth Dixon‘s insight:

I’m sorry that this site cannot display the animated GIF version, but just follow the link to see how the seasonal rthymns of the climate and biomass pulsate (at a much slower rate than our bodies, but still a system with it’s ebbs and flows).  

Tags: physical, remote sensing, geospatial, biogeography, weather and climate, Arctic.

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