Near Real-Time MODIS/Terra L3 Global Daily 500m SIN Grid Snow Cover, Grain Size, and Dust Radiative Forcing, Version 1 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Following the 2024 maximum sea ice extent on March 14, Arctic ice extent has declined slowly such that 2024 March average is the fifteenth lowest in the passive microwave satellite record. The ...

Following the 2024 maximum sea ice extent on March 14, Arctic ice extent has declined slowly such that 2024 March average is the fifteenth lowest in the passive microwave satellite record. The ...

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 ...

The MEaSUREs Greenland Image Mosaics from Sentinel-1A and -1B, Version 4 and MEaSUREs Greenland 6 and 12 day Ice Sheet Velocity Mosaics from SAR, Version 2 data sets, available at the NASA National ...