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8 October 2018
September 2018 also ties with September 2008 for the sixth lowest September in the satellite record.
27 September 2018
Arctic sea ice has likely reached its 2018 annual minimum, dropping to 4.59 million square kilometers on September 19 and 23. Tied with 2008 and 2010, it is the sixth-lowest minimum in the nearly 40-year satellite record.
6 August 2018
NSIDC celebrates 25 years as a Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC), archiving and distributing snow and ice data from NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) missions.
23 July 2018
In 2012, The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded the CHARIS project, or the Contribution to High Asia Runoff from Ice and Snow, at NSIDC and the University of Colorado Boulder. The project, which is coming to its end this September, has helped forecast the future availability of water resources in High Asia by assessing how glaciers and seasonal snow contribute to freshwater resources.
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The Latest from Arctic Sea Ice News
6 November 2018
Over the Pacific side of the Arctic, a pattern of unusual warmth noted in last month’s post continued. While sea ice extent in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas remains below average, extent remains... read more
8 October 2018
After starting the year with record lows in January and February, Arctic sea ice extent ended tied with 2008 for the sixth lowest average September extent in the satellite record. The 2018 minimum... read more
