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NSIDC research scientist Twila Moon testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology today. Moon offered her expertise on the Greenland Ice Sheet during a hearing entitled “Earth’s Thermometers: Glacial and Ice Sheet Melt in a Changing Climate."
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18 June 2019
Glaciologist and PhD student Tasha Snow recently joined the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (ITGC) a two-month scientific expedition to one of the most unstable glaciers in the world: Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica. Here, she shares her story.
12 June 2019
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has selected four NSIDC data sets to help assess the state of the cyrosphere in a global changing climate.
28 May 2019
The NSIDC DAAC has published the first data sets collected by NASA's ICESat-2 mission.
20 March 2019
Arctic sea ice has likely reached its maximum extent for the year, at 14.78 million square kilometers (5.71 million square miles) on March 13, 2019, according to scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado Boulder. The 2019 maximum is effectively tied with the 2007 maximum at seventh lowest in the 40-year satellite record.
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The Latest on Snow and Ice
16 July 2019
Loss of ice extent through the first half of July matched loss rates observed in 2012, the year which had the lowest September sea ice extent in the satellite record. Surface melt has become... read more
2 July 2019
After a period of slow ice loss in the middle of June, Arctic sea ice loss ramped up, and extent at the end of the month fell below 2012, the year which ended up with the lowest September ice... read more
1 July 2019
Between June 11 and 20, an extensive area of the Greenland ice sheet surface melted. At its peak on June 12, thawing climbed from the western and eastern coasts to elevations above 3,000 meters (9... read more
12 June 2019
Surface melting on the Northern Hemisphere’s largest mass of ice began during the second week of April, with several significant melting episodes at the end of the month and into early May. Warm... read more
