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For further information, please see our "This year is yet another low extent for Arctic sea ice," said senior scientist Walt Meier. "While not a record low, it is consistent with an Arctic sea ice ...
The overall, downward trend in the minimum extent from 1979 to 2025 is 12.1 percent per decade relative to the 1981 to 2010 ...
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. The Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost (GTN-P) was established in 1999 by the International Permafrost ...
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.
The NSIDC DAAC Earthdata Cloud collections are stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), a secure, scalable object storage service. If you plan to work directly with data in the cloud or ...
Dear data users, NSIDC does not archive or provide citation guidance for these data. Data from HadISST contains measurements of sea surface temperature (SST) and also global sea ice coverage (HadISST1 ...
Throughout August 2025, sea ice rapidly melted and compacted north of Alaska in the Beaufort Sea, initiated by a warm pulse ...
The ICESat/GLAS Date Conversion Tool includes several options for obtaining information related to laser track start time. To use the tool, use only one of the conversion options at a time. For ...
Dear data users, NSIDC does not archive or provide citation guidance for these data. The data set provides a 25 km grid Climate Data Record of Sea Ice Concentration (SIC) for the polar regions, ...
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 ...