The SnowEx23 Apr23 IOP Snow Pit Measurements, Version 1 data set is now available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC). This data set contains ...
NSIDC and the Snow Today Team are pleased to announce that the Snow Today Daily Snow Viewer web application is displaying a new version of snow properties data and New Zealand has been added as a ...
Dear data users, NSIDC does not archive or provide citation guidance for these data. The Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost (GTN-P) was established in 1999 by the International Permafrost ...
As a condition of using these data, you must cite the use of this data set. Such a practice gives credit to data set producers and advances principles of transparency and reproducibility. Other ...
Home Data ATL03/ICESat-2 Data Gaps (applies to all ICESat-2 products), last updated 16 Dec 2025 ...
As a condition of using these data, you must cite the use of this data set. Such a practice gives credit to data set producers and advances principles of transparency and reproducibility. Other ...
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. Tiny valleys near the top of Antarctica ...
Arctic sea ice extent appears to have reached its annual maximum on March 22, 2025. This is the lowest maximum in the 47-year satellite record, with previous low maximums occurring in 2017, 2018, 2016 ...
A glacial lake is a body of water that originates from a glacier. It typically forms at the foot of a glacier, but may form on, in, or under it. As Earth’s climate warms, the world’s glaciers are ...
Since 2007, the Arctic sea ice minimum has dropped below 5 million square kilometers (1.93 million square miles) every year, except in 2009, 2013, and 2014, when extent barely crossed the 5 million ...
About 70 percent of the planet’s freshwater is locked up in ice sheets: massive ice bodies spanning more than 50,000 square kilometers (20,000 square miles). Our planet has two ice sheets, one ...
Scientists may report different numbers for how much Arctic or Antarctic sea ice exists at a particular time. Different satellite sensors “see” sea ice differently, but another factor is whether ...