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Each year, Arctic sea ice undergoes seasonal cycles. It waxes in autumn and winter, usually reaching its annual maximum extent in March, and wanes in spring and summer, reaching its annual minimum ...

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. To promote ...

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. To promote ...

The 2024 melt season for the Greenland Ice Sheet ended with the second-lowest cumulative daily melt extent in this century, ...

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. To promote ...

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. To promote ...

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 ...

As darkness extends southward across the Arctic, sea ice has advanced to much of the Russian shoreline, but growth has been particularly slow in the Barents and Kara Seas. In the Antarctic, with 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 ...

Several representatives from NSIDC will be attending the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting 2024, either ...

Dr. Twila Moon is Deputy Lead Scientist and Science Communication Liaison at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, part of the University of Colorado Boulder’s Cooperative Institute for Research in ...