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Ice, which covers 10 percent of Earth's surface, is disappearing rapidly. Select a topic below to see how climate change has affected glaciers, sea ice, and continental ice sheets worldwide.
17 lip 2013 · Ice, which covers 10 percent of Earth's surface, is disappearing rapidly. Explore this interactive to see how climate change has affected glaciers, sea ice and continental ice sheets worldwide. You can browse a gallery containing this interactive and others here.
Ice Sheets Today offers the latest satellite data and scientific analyses on surface melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet in the Northern Hemisphere and Antarctic Ice Sheet in the Southern Hemisphere. Surface melt on each ice sheet results from a combination of daily weather conditions and the amount of solar energy absorbed by its snow and ice.
Graphs showing annual Greenland and Antarctic ice mass loss based on GRACE and GRACE-FO satellite data.
NASA's glaciers and ice sheet data help reveal ways these frozen giants influence our weather, climate, communities, and oceans. There are approximately 700,000 square kilometers of glaciers and ice sheets in the world located on every continent except Australia.
3 lip 2017 · This map shows the present extent of ice sheets and glaciers globally. Web Map by srichardson6. Last Modified: July 3, 2017. (0 ratings, 0 comments, 11,710 views)
16 sie 2019 · Locations where ice sheets reached the continental shelf-break during multiple Quaternary glaciations (e.g. Norwegian, Greenland, northern and eastern Canadian, and Barents-Kara Sea...