High Mountain Asia Supraglacial Lake Extents on Debris Covered Glaciers, 1988-2023, Version 1 is now available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC ...

The AMSR2 Daily Polar Gridded Sea Ice Concentrations and AMSR2 Daily Polar Gridded Brightness Temperatures data sets, available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive ...

The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) will add 4 IceBridge data sets to NASA Earthdata Cloud on 14 August 2025, completing the migration of all ...

ICESat-2 and CryoSat-2 L4 Monthly Arctic Snow Depth and Sea Ice Thickness, Version 1 is now available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC). This ...

The NSIDC DAAC User Services Office provides support for direct data download from Earthdata Cloud HTTPS and access to our AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets. For more details on these access ...

The study draws from multiple data sources: the Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS); a 1996 study examining global ...

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, ...

Using decades of satellite snow data from NASA’s NSIDC DAAC, researchers discovered that caribou in the Bathurst herd begin their epic migration just days after Arctic snowmelt begins—revealing a ...

Arctic sea ice extent through most of April changed very little. Only at the end of the month did extent begin to decline. Because the month started with unusually low extent, however, the average ...

Effective May 5, 2025, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) will decommission its snow and ice data products from the Coasts, Oceans, and Geophysics Science Division (COGS). As ...