What's happening at NSIDC?
Each month, NSIDC presents highlights of our activities and accomplishments. Learn how we are addressing challenges in data management, investigating current questions in the cryosphere, and developing innovative ways to add value for our data and information users.
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Glacier Photographs at NSIDC
October, 2009
The National Snow and Ice Data Center houses an extensive collection of glacier photographs that constitute an important historical record, providing visual evidence of how glaciers have changed over time.
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Introducing the Roger G. Barry Resource Office
for Cryospheric Studies (ROCS) at NSIDC
September, 2009
The National Snow and Ice Data Center's Library and Analog Archives have a new name and a new presence. Please meet the new Roger G. Barry Resource Office for Cryospheric Studies (ROCS) at NSIDC. With the new name comes a new effort to make these collections visible and accessible to external audiences.
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August, 2009
Recent Septembers have seen the extent of Arctic sea ice cover fall to about 60% of levels in the early 1970s. The past two years, 2007 and 2008, saw the lowest and second-lowest ice extent ever recorded. Scientists have long expected that a shrinking Arctic sea ice cover will lead to strong warming of the overlying atmosphere. This anticipated warming, known as Arctic or polar amplification because it is large in comparison to the temperature rise in lower latitudes, may further accelerate climate warming well beyond the Arctic. Mark Serreze, with NSIDC colleagues Julienne Stroeve, Andrew Barrett, David Kindig, and Andrew Slater, analyzed observations and model simulations to look for the signals of Arctic amplification. Their conclusion: it has arrived. But its effects have only just begun, raising new questions about how once-stable climate patterns will begin to alter.
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