National Snow and Ice Data Center3d
Arctic sea ice sets a record low maximum in 2025
Arctic sea ice extent appears to have reached its annual maximum on March 22, 2025. This is the lowest maximum in the 47-year ...
National Snow and Ice Data Center3d
Arctic sea ice hits record low maximum extent for the year
Arctic sea ice has likely reached its maximum extent for the year, at 14.33 million square kilometers (5.53 million square ...
National Snow and Ice Data Center5d
Antarctic Ice Sheet 2024 to 2025 melt season: Fast start, early end
Melting on the Antarctic Ice Sheet for the 2024 to 2025 season began with above average melt extents in all regions, but melt ...
National Snow and Ice Data Center11d
Sometimes you need the whole tree
NSIDC expertise has contributed to the enhancement of Xarray, a popular open-source tool used for data analysis and ...
National Snow and Ice Data Center10d
Does sea ice melt raise sea level?
Sea ice melt is not a significant contributor to sea level rise, but its contribution is not nothing, either. Sea ice is ...
Arctic Sea Ice11d
New version release: Near Real-Time MODIS/Terra L3 Global Daily 500m SIN Grid Snow Cover, Grain Size, and Dust Radiative Forcing, Version 1.1
Version 1.1 of Near Real-Time MODIS/Terra L3 Global Daily 500m SIN Grid Snow Cover, Grain Size, and Dust Radiative Forcing is now available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed ...
Arctic Sea Ice2d
Vostok Ice Core Chemistry, Timescale, Isotope, and Temperature Data, Version 1
This data set contains ice core chemistry, timescale, isotope, and temperature data analyzed by several investigators. In January 1998, the collaborative ice-drilling project between Russia, the ...
Arctic Sea Ice10d
European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA) Dome C Ice Core Data, Version 1
This data set is a collection of analyses done on the the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA)Dome C ice cores. The data include deuterium and other chemistry, insoluble dust, ice ...