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 ...

If Northern Hemisphere snow cover keeps reaching the same general highs and lows year after year, that reinforces climate stability. If snow cover instead changes over the long term, the change nudges ...

Monthly GPS Surface Elevation Data at Summit Station, Greenland, Version 1 is now available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC). This data set ...

Antarctic sea ice has likely reached its maximum extent for the year, at 17.81 million square kilometers (6.88 million square miles) on September 17, according to scientists at the National Snow and ...

On September 10, Arctic sea ice likely reached its annual minimum extent of 4.60 million square kilometers (1.78 million square miles). The 2025 minimum shares the tenth lowest spot in the nearly ...

Arctic sea ice has likely reached its minimum extent for the year, at 4.60 million square kilometers (1.78 million square miles) on September 10, 2025, according to scientists at the National Snow and ...

Throughout August 2025, 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 ...

Most people who know about the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSDIC) are familiar with the data center’s role in monitoring snow, sea ice, mountain glaciers, ice sheets, icebergs, and other ...

NOAA@NSIDC is pleased to announce the release of Sea Ice Index, Version 4. This new version uses input data from the JAXA GCOM-W1 AMSR2 instrument for 1 January 2025 ...

ICESat-2 Derived Canopy Height Model, Version 1 is now available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC). This data set provides a regression-based ...

Surface melting on the Greenland Ice Sheet is on a slightly above-average track for the 2025 melt season, with melt along the western coast leading the way. Overall, total melt-day extent as of June ...

Arctic sea ice extent tracked at near-record low levels through much of June, hitting daily record low levels from June 20 to 26. Sea ice coverage was particularly low in the Barents and Kara Seas, ...