National Snow and Ice Data Center

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Advancing knowledge of Earth's frozen regions.

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The new QGreenland website has been officially launched with a new style and feel. The educational resources (Teach tab) have been put into a standardized template to better skim and understand the potential use of resource in your teaching plans. qgreenland.org
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Nov 2
Gangotri Glacier is one of the Himalaya’s biggest glaciers, some 30 kilometers (20 miles) long. Sandip Sengupta snapped this photo on October 1, 2008. This photo is just one of thousands available from NOAA@NSIDC’s Glacier Photograph Collection: nsidc.org/data/glacier_p…
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Nov 2
If your car window glass is clean, ice crystals branch out like plant fronds, called fern frost. If it is dirty, every speck of dust triggers an ice crystal; hundreds crowd into a grainy sheet of hoar frost. Search terms in the NSIDC cryosphere glossary: nsidc.org/learn/cryosphe…
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Oct 26
NASA Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensors have functioned well for decades. What comes next? Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS)! Data sets are available from the NASA NSIDC DAAC. nsidc.org/data/viirs
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