The following links from NSIDC help provide further information about the scenarios portrayed in the movie, The Day After Tomorrow.

• Arctic Sea Ice News & Analysis
• State of the Cryosphere
• Sea Ice Index
• Larsen B Ice Shelf Breakup Events
• Ice Velocities of the Larsen B Ice Shelf and Vega Island
• Antarctic Glaciers Speed Up
• ICESat/GLAS data at NSIDC
• Greenland Maximum Melt Extent: A record maximum melt extent on the Greenland ice sheet in 2002
• Arctic Sea Ice Shrinking, Greenland Ice Sheet Melting, According to Study
• All About Glaciers

Additional external links:

• NASA
• Ice Core Data Gateway
• National Research Council. 2002. Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises ( PDF 716 KB). Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press.
• Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources. 2000. Reconciling Observations of Global Temperature Change (2000), Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press.
• Abrupt Climate change research at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Journal articles and papers referenced in this Q&A:

• Alley, R., et al. 2003. Abrupt climate change. Science 299(5615): 2005-2010.
  
  
• Arendt, A., K. Echelmeyer, W. D. Harrison, G. Lingle, and V. Valentine. 2002. Rapid wastage of Alaska glaciers and their contribution to rising sea level. Science 297: 382-386.
  
  
• Bindschadler, R. A., and C. R. Bentley. 2002. On thin ice? Western Antarctica's ice sheet. Scientific American 287(6): 98-105.
  
  
• Broecker, W. S. 1997. Thermohaline circulation, the Achilles Heel of our climate system: will man-made CO₂ upset the current balance? Science 278(5343): 1582-1588.
  
  
• Douglas, B. C., and W. R. Peltier. 2002. The puzzle of global sea-level rise. Physics Today 55: 35-40.
  
  
• NASA News Archive. 2002. Arctic Sea Ice Shrinking, Greenland Ice Sheet Melting, According to Study.
  
  
• Oppenheimer, M., and R. Alley. 2004. The West Antarctic Ice Sheet and long term climate policy. Climatic Change 64: 1-10.
  
  
• Rignot, E., and R. H. Thomas. 2002. Mass balance of polar ice sheets. Science 297: 1502-1506.
  
  
• Scambos, T., C. Hulbe, M. Fahnestock, and J. Bohlander. 2000. The link between climate warming and break-up of ice shelves in the Antarctica Peninsula. Journal of Glaciology 46(154): 516-530.
  
  
• Serreze, M. C., J. A. Maslanik, T. A. Scambos, F. Fetterer, J. Stroeve, K. Knowles, C. Fowler, S. Drobot, R. G. Barry, and T. M. Haran. 2003. A record minimum arctic sea ice extent and area in 2002. Geophysical Research Letters 30(3): 1110, doi: 10.1029/2002GL016406.
  
  
• Steffen, K. 2002. Greenland Maximum Melt Extent: A record maximum melt extent on the Greenland ice sheet in 2002.
  
  
• Sturm, M., D. K. Perovich, and M. C. Serreze. 2003. Meltdown in the north. Scientific American 289(4): 60-67.
  
  
• Weaver, A. J., and C. Hilaire-Marcel. 2004. Global warming and the next ice age. Science 304 (5669): 400-402.
  
  
• Zwally, H. Jay, W. Abdalati, T. Herring, K. Larson, J. Saba, and K. Steffen. Surface Melt-Induced Acceleration of Greenland Ice-Sheet Flow. Science 12 July 2002; 297: 218-222.

Additional journal articles and papers:

• Hansen, J. 2004. Defusing the global warming time bomb. Scientific American 290(3): 68-77.

• Schwartz, P., and D. Randall. 2003. An abrupt climate change scenario and its implications for the United States National Security: a report commissioned by the U.S. Defense Department.

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