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Snow/Ice News
Articles, resources, and announcements from Snow/Ice.
Image captured by the MODIS instrument on 12 July 2015, aboard the Aqua satellite.
Worldview Image of the Week
Sept. 11, 2020
By the end of the 2002 season, the total area of surface melt on the Greenland Ice Sheet had broken all known records.
Feature Article
July 28, 2020
Climate modelers trying to replicate climate change on a global scale need to better understand smaller scale regional climate dynamics to account for the nuances of climate variability.
Feature Article
July 28, 2020
Weak Indian summer monsoons often follow winters of heavy Eurasian snowfall.
Feature Article
July 28, 2020
Polar research operations depend largely on local weather conditions and the fortitude of both scientists and accompanying research equipment.
Feature Article
July 28, 2020
DMSP SSM/I Pathfinder EASE-Grid Brightness Temperatures data enhance the feasibility of lake studies for scientists and climate modelers.
Feature Article
July 23, 2020
Synthetic aperture radar is used to study transmutations of ice.
Feature Article
July 22, 2020
Three new datasets show more than 17 years of variations in ice mass and ice mass changes from Antarctica and Greenland as well as global ocean mass change.
News
April 6, 2020
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