Ice Sheets Today - National Snow and Ice Data Center
Jan 8, 2025 · Ice Sheets Today offers the latest satellite data and scientific analyses on surface melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet in the Northern Hemisphere and Antarctic Ice Sheet in the …
Greenland's ice sheet melting faster than scientists previously ...
Jan 18, 2024 · Greenland's ice sheet loses about 193 square kilometers of ice per year, researchers found. Study co-author Chad Greene and his colleagues said they qualified the …
Watch Greenland lose 563 cubic miles of ice in under 30 seconds …
Dec 21, 2024 · A disturbing new video shows 13 years of melt at the Greenland Ice Sheet. The video was stitched together based on NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) satellite data.
No medal for Greenland melt in 2024 - National Snow and Ice …
Aug 14, 2024 · While snowfall in June and July covered dark bare ice areas on the ice sheet's margins, a heat wave in early July exposed this ice in western Greenland, increasing melt in …
Greenland's ice sheet is melting and being replaced by …
Feb 13, 2024 · An estimated 11,000 sq miles or 28,707 sq kilometers of Greenland's ice sheet and glaciers have melted over the last three decades, according to a major analysis of historic …
Greenland Is Disappearing Quickly, and Scientists Have Found a …
Oct 13, 2022 · finds that rising air temperatures are working with warm ocean waters to speed the melting of Greenland’s seaside glaciers. The findings, published in the journal Nature …
Greenland Ice Sheet - NOAA Arctic
The Greenland Ice Sheet lost 55 ± 35 Gt of mass in 2024, the lowest annual ice loss since 2013. This occurred due to above-average snowfall and below-average melting and despite higher …
Greenland Ice Sheet melt season starts
Jun 18, 2024 · On April 25, 2024, a moderately strong melt event kicked things off early on the Greenland Ice Sheet. Since then, however, the melt season has been fairly typical. Snowfall in …
NASA Study: More Greenland Ice Lost Than Previously Estimated
Jan 17, 2024 · Icebergs have tumbled from Greenland’s glaciers for thousands of years as part of a natural cycle that typically balanced glacier growth in the winter with melting and retreat in …
Greenland Ice Sheet - NOAA Arctic
On 26 June 2023, Summit Station reached a temperature of 0.4°C and experienced melt for only the fifth time in its 34-year observational history. The Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) is the second …