Data

On the shoulders of giants: Why include data citations in research?

Why is citing data important? Including data citations can be just as valuable as literature citations, not only to fellow researchers, but to those who compile data, organizations distributing data, and agencies that fund research.

Is the Arctic Ocean a carbon sink?

We’ve all heard it: Arctic sea ice is melting. Sea ice is thinner year to year and there is less of it. In 2007, scientists observed a nearly 50 percent loss of summer ice as compared to 1980....

Celebrating 35 years of sea ice satellite data

This image is derived from the Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR), and shows Arctic Ocean sea...

What is the Arctic’s new normal?

Although Arctic sea ice extent as of June 2013 falls within the normal range, sea ice overall is...

How low is low?

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Sea ice extent reached a new record low on August 27, 2012 and continued to decline. The last six years have...

What is causing Arctic sea ice decline?

The Arctic Ocean has lost more than 30 percent of its summer ice cover in the last thirty years...

What’s in a number? Arctic sea ice and record lows

Arctic sea ice extent for September, 2011 was the second-lowest in the satellite record. However...

Greenland’s glaciers and the Arctic climate

These before-and-after photographs show Petermann Glacier in July 2009, before the calving event, and...

Climate change or variability: What rules Arctic sea ice?

This photo, taken during the NASA ICESCAPE mission in summer 2011, shows melt ponds on the surface of Arctic...

Getting beneath the ice

Researchers can measure ice thickness by drilling holes in the sea ice...
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