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In 2012, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded the University of Colorado Boulder to support the Contribution to High Asia Runoff from Ice and Snow, or CHARIS project. The project seeks to answer the contribution of seasonal snow and glacier melt to paint an accurate picture of the water sources for the High Asia region.
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May and June were markedly cooler than the average, although total melt-day area for the ice sheet is near average as of early July. Winds from the south and high air pressure over Iceland caused a spike in melt area in early July.
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The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) is part of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University
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The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) is part of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder.
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The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) is part of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder.
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NSIDC researcher Kevin Schaefer has discovered huge amounts of mercury stockpiled in Arctic soils. Schaefer said, “There is twice the amount of mercury in permafrost as in the rest of the planet combined.”