Throughout August 2025, sea ice rapidly melted and compacted north of Alaska in the Beaufort Sea, initiated by a warm pulse ...

Walt passed the controller and VR headset to NSIDC data support specialist Mikala Beig, who ventured further into the app’s ...

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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 ...

In August, sea ice rapidly melted and compacted north of Alaska in the Beaufort Sea, initiated by a warm pulse of air from east Siberia that was sustained by persistent winds from the southwest.

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 ...

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 ...

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. Blue outlined yellow areas on the map below indicate the spatial coverage for this data set.

Beyond snow and ice data, the NASA NSIDC Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) archives and distributes soil moisture data sets that directly support American agriculture. These data help farmers, ...