Arctic sea ice has likely reached its maximum extent for the year, at 14.33 million square kilometers (5.53 million square ...

Arctic sea ice extent appears to have reached its annual maximum on March 22, 2025. This is the lowest maximum in the 47-year ...

Melting on the Antarctic Ice Sheet for the 2024 to 2025 season began with above average melt extents in all regions, but melt ...

NSIDC expertise has contributed to the enhancement of Xarray, a popular open-source tool used for data analysis and ...

Sea ice melt is not a significant contributor to sea level rise, but its contribution is not nothing, either. Sea ice is ...

Version 1.1 of Near Real-Time MODIS/Terra L3 Global Daily 500m SIN Grid Snow Cover, Grain Size, and Dust Radiative Forcing is now available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed ...

This data set compares global atmospheric concentration of methane from ice cores taken on the ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland. The data come from multiple ice cores on each continent, ...

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 ...

The global GFDL SPEAR large ensemble climate change simulations were produced by a 30-member ensemble over the period of 1921-2100. The SPEAR climate model was run using historical radiative forcing ...

This data set includes chemistry, ion, and istotope data from Taylor Dome, part of the East Antarctic ice sheet. Deep drilling at Taylor Dome successfully reached bedrock at a depth of 554 meters ...