Most of Greenland’s meltwater takes weeks to reach the ocean. A recently published study highlights an innovative new method ...

Melt events on both sides of the Antarctic Peninsula and along the Dronning Maud coastal ice shelves between December 15 and 19 combined to produce an early-season record melt extent of just below ...

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. Fox, S.

Subscribe here to receive email updates of the Soil Moisture Active Passive Data (SMAP) data announcements This page lists featured tools and web services that can be used to access and work with ...

The left map shows the total melt days for the Antarctic Ice Sheet as of December 19, 2024. The graph in the middle shows the daily melt extent in red for Antarctic Ice Sheet for the 2024 to 2025 melt ...

This data set contains ice core chemistry, timescale, isotope, and temperature data analyzed by several investigators. In January 1998, the collaborative ice-drilling project between Russia, the ...

There are many ways to access and work with NSIDC data to accommodate a wide diversity of users. Use the filter menu to explore and narrow down your options. Note that the list defaults to show our ...

Search by glacier name or number or by glacier parameters. Note: If you search by glacier name or number, you cannot refine your search by addtional parameters. This search will return only those ...

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 ...