Walt passed the controller and VR headset to NSIDC data support specialist Mikala Beig, who ventured further into the app’s ...

B, Version 4 data set, available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC), has been updated. New data have been added, and the temporal coverage now ...

Beyond snow and ice data, the NASA NSIDC Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) archives and distributes soil moisture data ...

This post also reviews the impacts of rain on snow on the ice sheet. The daily areal extent of melting abated to near-average ...

In July and August 2025, two new federal documents were released that have implications for how climate change impacts are assessed in the United States: Department of Energy (DOE) Report: A Critical ...

Isolated portions of ICESat-2 Release 7 data are affected by gaps in instrument pointing estimates and degraded orbit/pointing solutions around spacecraft maneuvers. These issues can cause large ...

The SnowEx23 GIS References and Field Maps, Version 1 data set is now available at the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC). This data set contains ...

This data set contains reduced-resolution QuickBird imagery and geospatial data for the entire Barrow QuickBird image area 156.15° W - 157.07° W, 71.15° N - 71.41° N) and the Barrow B4 Quadrangle (156 ...

This data set consists of a geo-referenced digital map and attribute data derived from the publication 'Permafrost map of Alaska'. The map is presented at a scale of 1 to 2,500,000 and shows the ...

This data product, Circumpolar Active-Layer Permafrost System (CAPS), Version 1 (G01175), was published on CD_ROM in 1998 and has been superseded by the Circum-Arctic Map of Permafrost and Ground-Ice ...

Changes to this version include: - Dual Channel Algorithm (DCA) replaces Single Channel Algorithm – Vertical (SCA-V) as baseline algorithm - Addition of two soil texture data elements, organic_content ...

As a condition of using these data, you must cite the use of this data set. Such a practice gives credit to data set producers and advances principles of transparency and reproducibility. Other ...