NOAA@NSIDC is pleased to announce that the Rutgers Northern Hemisphere 24 km Weekly Snow Cover Extent, September 1980 Onward, Version 1 data s ...

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A new review paper, led by NSIDC senior research scientist Julienne Stroeve and published in Science on February 6, 2025, ...

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The Global Lake and River Ice Phenology Database contains freeze and breakup dates and other ice cover descriptive data for 865 lakes and rivers. Of the 542 water bodies that have records longer than ...

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Arctic daily sea ice extent continued to hover near record daily lows in January, with the ice edge well northward of its long-term average position in most areas. In contrast to the cold conditions ...

The Submarine Arctic Science Program, SCICEX, is a federal interagency collaboration among the operational Navy, research agencies, and the marine research community to use nuclear-powered submarines ...

The monthly Sea Ice Index provides a quick look at Arctic-wide changes in sea ice. It is a source for consistently processed ice extent and concentration images and data values since 1979. Monthly ...

The cryosphere refers to Earth’s ice in all its forms. The term comes from the Greek word for icy cold—krios. The cryosphere includes: This up-close image shows the intricate details within this ice ...

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 ...