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Articles, resources, and announcements from Cryosphere.
Researchers link the Greenland snow melt anomaly to the eruption of Mount Pinatubo.
Feature Article
July 22, 2020
Many processes that shape the Earth's landscape happen too slowly to be witnessed in a human lifetime. But recent analysis of satellite imagery shows that a large glacier tongue on the coast of East Antarctica has disintegrated, changing the shape of the coastline almost overnight.
Feature Article
July 21, 2020
Alaska's Denali Fault experienced a magnitude 7.9 earthquake in 2002.
Feature Article
July 21, 2020
Arctic sea ice cover is an essential ingredient of Earth's climate system; ocean currents can influence climate by redistributing heat, especially in coastal regions.
Feature Article
July 21, 2020
Extent of Arctic sea ice is seen as a sensitive indicator of climate change.
Feature Article
July 21, 2020
A dataset with digital elevation models (DEMs) of the Greenland Ice Sheet is the latest release from NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) mission.
News
July 9, 2020
Image captured on 15 February 2020, by the MODIS instrument, aboard the Aqua satellite.
Worldview Image of the Week
June 30, 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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