Recent Highlights
NASA Mission Bridges Satellite Gap; NSIDC Bridges Data Access
February, 2010
NSIDC supports NASA in its quest to ensure continuous study of ice in Earth's polar regions.
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Techno-Archaeology Rescues Climate Data from Early Satellites
January, 2010
NSIDC and NASA data scientists proved the use of 21st-century techniques to revive data from 1960s satellites.
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Searchlight Puts Data in a Whole New Light
December, 2009
NSIDC is reducing the distance between our users and our cryospheric data holdings, thanks to an evolution in NSIDC data architecture called Searchlight.
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NSIDC DAAC Data Pick Up Speed
November, 2009
This year, access to data at NSIDC improved significantly, as a result of a substantial archive-technology shift and data migration by the NSIDC Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC).
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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. Sci entists 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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