Following the pattern seen in recent years, autumn freeze up has been slow in the Arctic, reflecting the growing heat gain in the ocean mixed layer during summer and higher air temperatures. In the ...

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The Global Lake and River Ice Phenology Database contains freeze and breakup dates and other ice cover descriptive data for 865 lakes and rivers. Of the 542 water bodies that have records longer than ...

The cryosphere refers to Earth’s ice in all its forms. The term comes from the Greek word for icy cold—krios. The cryosphere includes: This up-close image shows the intricate details within this ice ...

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Across the globe, snow and ice play a vital role in regulating Earth’s climate and providing freshwater resources to people, plants, and animals.

As a condition of using these data, you must cite the use of this data set. Such a practice gives credit to data set producers and advances principles of transparency and reproducibility. Other ...

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ATLAS/ICESat-2 processing begins with two Level 1 products: ATL01, which computes photon times of flight, and ATL02, which corrects them for temperature and voltage effects. The collection then ...

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Note: To select a different data set, close this window (or tab) and navigate to the data set landing page you want. This data set contains 8-meter Digital Elevation Model (DEM) mosaics of high ...

Note: To select a different data set, close this window (or tab) and navigate to the data set landing page you want. This global Level-3 (L3) data set provides a ...