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On Thin Ice: Expedition to a Crumbling Ice Shelf
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Guest post by Mark Serreze, NSIDC Director and Professor, Department of Geography, University of Colorado Boulder
This graph shows the yearly trend toward later Arctic sea ice minimum dates, but also illustrates the wide...
On July 20, 2011, the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy traveled through a break in the sea ice and melt ponds in...
Like El Niño and La Niña, the Arctic Oscillation (AO) is a big-picture of atmospheric conditions that influence weather. The AO, which alternates between two distinct modes, describes how pressure...
Researchers take measurements of the physical properties of sea ice in Fram Strait, in the Canadian Arctic...