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Sierra Snowpack Bigger Than Last Four Years Combined
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Published April 22, 2017
NASA airborne snow surveys provide key information for California water managers.
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New Rift on Petermann Glacier
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Published April 19, 2017
Glaciologists are watching a new crack that has formed on a glacier in northwest Greenland.
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Meltwater Channels on Ellesmere Island
Published April 12, 2017
Meltwater has carved sinuous channels on the DeVries Glacier in the Canadian Arctic.
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Camp Century: Put on Ice, But Only for So Long
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Published January 31, 2017
By 2090, the scale could tilt in the favor of ice loss instead of buildup.
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New Studies Get to the Bottom of Antarctic Melting
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Published October 30, 2016
Researchers from NASA and the University of California, Irvine (UCI) have gained an unprecedented view of ice melting on the floating undersides of glaciers. In the process, they detected the fastest ongoing rates of glacier retreat ever observed in West Antarctica.
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Greenland’s Lesser-Known Glaciers
Published September 17, 2016
NASA’s Operation IceBridge mission concluded its 2016 airborne campaign in Greenland.
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Melt at the Base of the Greenland Ice Sheet
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Published August 4, 2016
A new map shows where the bottom of the Greenland Ice Sheet is likely thawed.
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Shining a G-LiHT on an Alaskan Forest
Published July 27, 2016
A three-dimensional view of an Alaskan forest is just one way scientists are tracking vegetation changes in the Tanana Valley.
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Quantifying Tree Loss in Sierra National Forest
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Published July 20, 2016
Mass tree die-offs in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains are sparking worries of fire in the region.
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Imaging a Methane Leak from Space
Published June 24, 2016
The observation by the Earth Observing-1 satellite is an important breakthrough as scientists work to measure and monitor emissions of this potent greenhouse gas from space.
Scientists Improve Maps of Subsidence in New Orleans
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Published May 25, 2016
Through a combination of airborne radar and ground-based GPS, a research team has developed detailed models of how much land is sinking and rising in southern Louisiana.
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Daugaard-Jensen Land, Greenland
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Published December 30, 2015
Not all parts of Greenland are entirely covered with ice.
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Sea Ice in the Bellingshausen Sea
Published October 4, 2015
A spectacular view of sea ice was captured during an Operation IceBridge flight in 2014; the mission surveyed ice at both poles again in 2015, this time simultaneously.
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Partial Opening of the Northwest Passage
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Published September 13, 2015
The southern route is open, while the northern route still has some lingering ice in Parry Channel.
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Alaska’s Biggest (Ice) Losers are Inland
Published July 7, 2015
Glaciers in a region of Alaska are losing about 75 billion tons of ice per year, but not all glaciers contribute equally.
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Airborne Instruments Look for Changes in the Delta
Published June 25, 2015
Plane-mounted radar and other instruments are studying the shrinking and growing wetlands along the Gulf Coast.
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Laser-like Focus on Arctic Sea Ice
Published April 5, 2015
In twilight conditions, green lasers that measure polar ice are easily visible with the naked eye.
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What Lies Below
Published December 23, 2014
The history of the South Pole's atmosphere is locked up in layers of ice.
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New Insight from Old Snapshots of Greenland
Published December 16, 2014
Historic photographs show glacial retreat since the early 1900s.
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Finding a Constellation with a Laser
Published November 16, 2014
Operation IceBridge spotted a piece of U.S. history and measured it with a lidar instrument.
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