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Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Highlights

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  • – Multi-Sensor Composite Melt Maps of the Greenland Ice Sheet for Optimal Detection of Melt
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Photo of Aletsch Glacier in Switzerland

NASA Data Pinpoints Glaciers' Role in Sea Level Rise

05.16.2013
99% of Earth’s land ice is locked into the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. But from 2003–2009, the world’s other glaciers contributed equally to sea level rise as the two ice sheets combined.
Photo of NASA Wallops Aircraft Office flight engineer Brian Yates meets his children after the P-3B returned from Operation IceBridge’s Arctic 2013 campaign

Operation IceBridge: A Stormy Finish

05.09.2013
After several weeks of survey flights the IceBridge team has returned from the Arctic and have started processing collected data and planning for the Antarctic campaign coming up later this year.
Photo of Steensby Glacier flowing around a sharp bend in a deep canyon

Expanding Operation IceBridge's Reach

05.02.2013
The team completed their 10th high-priority sea ice flight, coordinated with an ESA satellite team, expanded the mission's reach in the Arctic, revisited sites and studied a new feature in the ice.
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