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Following the pattern seen in recent years, autumn freeze up has been slow in the Arctic, reflecting the growing heat gain in the ocean mixed layer during summer and higher air temperatures. In the ...

Since beginning to migrate data to the NASA Earthdata Cloud, the NSIDC DAAC has worked to develop resources and tools to ...

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Across the globe, snow and ice play a vital role in regulating Earth’s climate and providing freshwater resources to people, plants, and animals.

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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 ...

Explore the MASIE-NH Daily Image Viewer to see daily images of the most recent ice extent by region. You can also view a time series plot of the selected region that ...

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 ...

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The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) distributes cryosphere and related geophysical data from NASA Earth-observing satellite missions, airborne ...

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