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Nearly 20,000 shaggy and plump sheep wander the rolling, verdant hills of southern Greenland. During the short, mild summers and early fall season, they forage on grasses and tundra before herders ...
Arctic sea ice extent for March set a record low in the 47-year satellite data record. Extent was below average everywhere ...
Snow-covered area in March across the western United States was 8 percent below average, ranking seventeenth in the 25-year satellite record. Snow cover duration was just above the twenty-fifth ...
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 ...
Arctic sea ice has likely reached its maximum extent for the year, at 14.33 million square kilometers (5.53 million square miles) on March 22, according to scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data ...
ATLAS/ICESat-2 L3A Along Track Coastal and Nearshore Bathymetry, Version 1 is now available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC). This data set ...
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 ...
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 ...
Dear data users, NSIDC does not archive or provide citation guidance for these data. This data set compares global atmospheric concentration of methane from ice cores taken on the ice sheets of ...