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Read the latest news stories, feature articles, user stories, and blog posts that feature data archived by NASA's National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC).
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Publication from NASA ESDIS describing research uses of data from EOSDIS - scientists use SSM/I data to locate Antarctic polynyas.
Feature Article
July 22, 2020
Interpreting receding glaciers are an important part of the GEWEX GCIP study regions, centered on the Mississippi River Basin.
Feature Article
July 22, 2020
The Larsen B Ice Shelf disintegrated within 35 days between January 31 and March 7, 2002.
Feature Article
July 22, 2020
Researchers link the Greenland snow melt anomaly to the eruption of Mount Pinatubo.
Feature Article
July 22, 2020
The SSM/I Pathfinder is a prototype mapping and gridding system for systematic time-series studies and direct digital comparison of different satellite data sets.
Feature Article
July 21, 2020
Many processes that shape the Earth's landscape happen too slowly to be witnessed in a human lifetime. But recent analysis of satellite imagery shows that a large glacier tongue on the coast of East Antarctica has disintegrated, changing the shape of the coastline almost overnight.
Feature Article
July 21, 2020
Arctic sea ice cover is an essential ingredient of Earth's climate system; ocean currents can influence climate by redistributing heat, especially in coastal regions.
Feature Article
July 21, 2020
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