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201-210 of 1004 results for Arctic Ice

Drilling Back to the Future: Climate Clues from Ancient Ice on Greenland

Section: Teaching Climate

Published: December 2, 2024

few hundred years. The video shows how scientists use a continuous sampling technique to analyze ice core samples in the field. Sophisticated correlations between increasing temperatures and levels o ...

How is the polar vortex related to the Arctic Oscillation?

Section: News & Features

Published: January 20, 2014

to the surface, especially in the winter, which is where the Arctic Oscillation* comes in. The Arctic Oscillation describes simultaneous, geographically "choreographed" shifts in multiple features of ...

Arctic Tundra May Contribute to Warmer World

Section: Teaching Climate

Published: February 12, 2024

outputs of this carbon cycle and how it contributes to climate change naturally. A review of Arctic ecologist Ted Schuur's research using radiocarbon dating to track current metabolism of old carbon i ...

Barrow Sea Ice Thickness and Sea Level Webcam and Radar

Section: Climate Resilience Toolkit

Published: August 10, 2015

Chuckchi Sea north of Barrow. * Mass Balance and Sea Level Site: This site measures snow depth, ice thickness, and the water-ice-snow-air temperature profile. There are also underwater acoustic altim ...

Arctic Matters: The Global Connection to Changes in the Arctic

Section: Climate Resilience Toolkit

Published: September 14, 2016

brief, reader-friendly primer on the complex ways in which the changes currently affecting the Arctic and its diverse people, resources, and environment can—in turn—affect the entire globe. Topics in ...

Earliest satellite images of Antarctica reveal highs and lows for sea ice in the 1960s

Section: News & Features

Published: November 4, 2014

records in Antarctica, has discovered more secrets from the 1960s including mysterious holes in Arctic sea ice and the first-ever high-resolution glimpse at the highly destructive Hurricane Camille. T ...

2018 Arctic Report Card: Multi-year stretch of record and near-record warmth unlike any period on record

Section: News & Features

Published: December 11, 2018

year runs from October-September to avoid splitting the winter season). The red line indicates Arctic temperatures, and the gray line indicates global temperatures. Throughout most of the observationa ...

Shrinking ice caps on Ellesmere Island

Section: News & Features

Published: April 13, 2016

on August 15, 2015, this animation shows the shrinking extent of ice caps on Ellesmere Island. Mark Serreze, Director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado-Bo ...

Great Lakes ice cover decreasing over last 40 years

Section: News & Features

Published: July 9, 2018

and the people who rely on it. The image on top shows the Great Lakes at the time of maximum ice cover averaged from 1973-2018 based on winter season data from NOAA's Great Lakes Environmental Resear ...

Arctic Air Ushers in Chilly December

Section: News & Features

Published: January 11, 2010

wave of cold Arctic air gripped much of North America, Europe, and northern portions of Asia through the month of December 2009. Compared to average temperatures for December (measured from 1971 to 20 ...