April sea ice loss in the Arctic proceeded at a near-average rate overall, with the majority of ice losses in the Bering Sea and Sea of Okhotsk. In the Antarctic, sea ice grew faster than average, ...
Near Real-Time MODIS/Terra L3 Global Daily 500m SIN Grid Snow Cover, Grain Size, and Dust Radiative Forcing, Version 1 ...
The MODIS/Terra Global Annual 0.01Deg CMG Snow Cover Climatology (NSIDC-0791), Version 1 data set, accessible through the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center ...
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The Greenland Ice sheet Mapping Project (GrIMP) creates and provides benchmark data sets for observing Greenland ice sheet change and stability. The temporal range of data ranges from the year 1985 to ...
Read scientific analysis on Arctic sea ice conditions. We provide an update during the first week of each month, or more frequently as conditions warrant. Sea ice data is updated daily, with a one-day ...
Thwaites Glacier is one of the fastest-retreating glaciers in Antarctica. This colossal glacier covers an area roughly the size of Florida or Great Britain in West Antarctica and it is rapidly losing ...
NSIDC partnered with the NOAA National Geophysical Data Center to develop this database. The project was funded through the NOAA Climate Database Modernization Project (CDMP). For complete ...
In late February and early March, two record melt events for that time of year occurred on the Antarctic Peninsula. Overall, however, the seasonal melt for the 2023 to 2024 melt season, from November ...
Ann Windnagel surveys Colorado’s Arapaho Glacier in September 2021. — Credit: Bruce Raup In September 2021, a gaggle of NSIDC employees visited Colorado’s Arapaho Glacier, camping overnight, and ...
Snow-covered area in March 2024 across the western United States was 18 percent above average (Table 1). March 2024 snow-covered area was considerably less than the record-setting season last year.