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Photo of two researchers walking in snow carrying radar instrument between them

NASA Airborne Campaign Catches the Drift of Snow Water

12.23.2019
Snow is a vital source of water for drinking, agriculture and electrical power in the western United States and other locations around the world. To know how much water will be available the following spring, water resource managers and hydrologists need to know where snow has fallen, how much there is and how is characteristics change as it melts.
Photo of NASA research plane on snowy runway

NASA’s Operation IceBridge Completes Eleven Years of Polar Surveys

12.11.2019
For ten years from 2009 to 2019, the planes of NASA's Operation IceBridge flew above the Arctic and Antarctic, gathering data on the height, flow and change of sea ice, glaciers, and ice sheets.
Animated airborne view of Greenland Ice Sheet

Greenland's Rapid Melt Will Mean More Flooding

12.10.2019
A new study finds the Greenland Ice Sheet is melting at a rate that matches the worst-case climate models, which project that flooding will affect millions of people by 2100.
Link to Nature paper published on Dec. 10, 2019 that discussed IMBIE study (Shepherd et al., 2019).
Photo of Alaska’s Malaspina Glacier is seen from the air during an Operation IceBridge flight.

Ice in Motion: Satellites Capture Decades of Change

12.09.2019
New time-lapse videos of Earth's glaciers and ice sheets as seenfrom space, some spanning nearly 50 years, are providing new insights into howthe planet's frozen regions are changing.
Image of Jupiter

NASA Highlights Solar Mission, Jupiter Cyclone at AGU Meeting

12.05.2019
NASA researchers will present new findings on a wide range of Earth and space science topics at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), Dec. 9-13 in San Francisco.
Photo of iceberg in Porpoise Bay

Porpoiseful Ice Studies

11.23.2019
Hundreds of scientific papers have come out of NASA’s Operation IceBridge, which ended this week.
ICESat-2 elevation measurements from its Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System (ATLAS). The measurements are overlaid on topography data from NASA’s Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) to emphasize the terrain.

A Transylvanian Transect for Halloween

11.01.2019
ICESat-2 collected some perspective on the legendary landscape of Vlad and Dracula.
Landsat 8 false-color satellite image of Hielo Patagónico Sur 12 (HPS-12) in January 2019

Is HPS-12 the Fastest Thinning Glacier?

10.29.2019
A glacier in Patagonia with a forgettable name is becoming memorable for the speed at which it is losing ice.
Landsat 8 satellite image of Assateague, Chincoteague, and Wallops islands

Assateague on the Move

10.09.2019
Assateague, Chincoteague, and Wallops provide a rare example of overlapping barrier islands. All of them are constantly in motion.
Animation depicting iceberg breaking off ice shelf in East Antarctica

Rifting and Calving on the Amery Ice Shelf

10.04.2019
The ice shelf in East Antarctica has spawned its first major iceberg in more than half a century.
Photograph of sea ice

Laser Precision: NASA Flights, Satellite Align Over Sea Ice

10.03.2019
IceBridge timed flights to coincide exactly with ICESat-2 orbiting over moving Arctic sea ice - a tricky feat that paid off in demonstrating the precision of the new satellite.
Photograph of a proglacial lake in northwest Greenland

Edge of the Ice

09.28.2019
Summer snowmelt along the flank of Greenland’s Humboldt Glacier exposes layers of ice from ancient climate periods.
Animation of false-color images of Malaspina Glacier from 1986 - 2003

Malaspina on the Move

09.11.2019
More than 30 years of ice velocity data are helping scientists tease out how mountain glaciers respond to climate change.
Landsat 8 composite image of Helheim, Fenris and Midgard glaciers

Landsat Illustrates Five Decades of Change to Greenland Glaciers

08.28.2019
Greenland's Helheim Glacier, along with its neighbors, have changed significantly in the last five decades, as illustrated by comparing Landsat images from 1972 and 2019.
Landsat 5 satellite image of glacier atop Iceland’s Ok volcano

Okjökull Remembered

08.09.2019
The glacier atop Iceland’s Ok volcano was declared dead in 2014. Satellite images show the latter stages of its decline.
GEOS-5 model image of Air Temperature Change across Greenland July 20 - 30, 2019

Warm Weather Brings Major Melting to Greenland

08.02.2019
Melting was provoked by a bubble of warm air that moved over Greenland after delivering unseasonably warm temperatures to Europe.
Image depicting elevation measurement of Crater Lake

The Ups and Downs of Crater Lake

07.29.2019
Elevation data show the distinct topography of Mount Mazama and the crater lake that fills its caldera.
Landsat 8 false-color satellite image of the the Brunt ice shelf

Brunt Ice Shelf Survives the Solstice

07.12.2019
The enormous slab of ice poised to break away from the Brunt ice shelf is still hanging on.
Satellite image of collapsed ice arch

Ice Arch Crumbles Early

06.26.2019
The structure that prevents sea ice from exiting the Arctic Ocean through the Nares Strait crumbled months earlier than usual.
Close-up image of snow and ice on the Greenland ice sheet

Study Predicts More Long-Term Sea Level Rise from Greenland Ice

06.19.2019
Greenland’s melting ice sheet could generate more sea level rise than previously thought if greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase and warm the atmosphere at their current rate, according to a new modeling study. The study, which used data from NASA’s Operation IceBridge airborne campaign, was published in Science Advances today.
Landsat 8 satellite image of the Jakobshavn Glacier

Major Greenland Glacier Is Growing

06.18.2019
Jakobshavn Glacier has grown for the third year in a row, and scientists attribute the change to cool ocean waters.
Follow the Water still from animation

NASA Explores Our Changing Freshwater World

06.12.2019
Water is so commonplace that we often take it for granted. But too much – or too little of it – makes headlines.
Terra satellite satellite image of the South Patagonian Icefield

Los Glaciares National Park, Argentina

06.11.2019
Where some of the park’s most notable glaciers end, a series of colorful glacial lakes begin.
Terra satellite image of the Maud Rise polynya in the eastern Weddell Sea on September 25, 2017.

Deciphering the Maud Rise Polynya

05.29.2019
Cyclonic winds help state-sized areas of sea ice go missing from the middle of the ice pack around Antarctica.
Photo of NASA researchers conducting a traverse to South Pole

First ICESat-2 Global Data Released: Ice, Forests and More

05.28.2019
ICESat-2 data is available to the public to investigate questions related to Earth.
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