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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.
26 paź 2023 · In total, 44% of the World’s glacierised area is in the Arctic regions, and 18% is in the Antarctic and Subantarctic. Glaciers cover 0.5% of the Earth’s land surface 13. This figure shows the global distribution of glaciers. The diameter of the circle shows the area covered.
In glaciology, an ice sheet, also known as a continental glacier, [2] is a mass of glacial ice that covers surrounding terrain and is greater than 50,000 km 2 (19,000 sq mi). [3] The only current ice sheets are the Antarctic ice sheet and the Greenland ice sheet .
The world glacier explorer is an interactive web application with which you can learn (and teach) about the world’s glaciers, their location, their climate, and the ice they store. By “glaciers”, we mean all glaciers outside of the two continental ice sheets (Greenland and Antarctica).
3 lip 2017 · This map shows the present extent of ice sheets and glaciers globally. Web Map by srichardson6
Graphs showing annual Greenland and Antarctic ice mass loss based on GRACE and GRACE-FO satellite data.
