News about ice

46 years of #Arctic sea ice thickness during the month of March... Graphic available at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-volumethickness/ pic.twitter.com/8mWJfsSj4o

Daily monitoring of the Greenland Ice Sheet is back! Find these two maps on our Ice Sheets Today page: the Greenland daily melt map and the Greenland cumulative melt days map. Analyses about conditions on the Greenland Ice Sheet will return soon as well. nsidc.org/ice-sheets-today pic.twitter.com/Yeq7IsUhFP

There are 2 broad categories of glaciers: alpine glaciers and ice sheets. Alpine glaciers are frozen rivers of ice, slowly flowing under their own weight down mountainsides and into valleys. Ice sheets cover entire continents. nsidc.org/learn/parts-cryosphere/glaciers

🚨New ice dynamics study! 🚨 Ice flow is changing >100 km inland on the Greenland ice sheet, with acceleration of ~10% and mega-crevasses emerging in recent decades. article: www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01322-w news: eng.geus.dk/about/news/news-archive/2024/april/no-rest-for-the-ice by Anja Løkkegaard in @CommsEarth pic.twitter.com/7QJw3zJh9C