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Formerly TwitterZack Labe
ZLabe
This time of year trends in sea ice concentration are confined to the very outer edges of the #Arctic Ocean. Losses of concentration are smallest in March and April.
[Sea ice concentration = fraction of ice-cover (observed by satellite). More information journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/104/9/BAMS-D-23-0079.1.xml] pic.twitter.com/jn46aZfkV5
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Zack Labe
ZLabe
March 2024 data is now available from GIOMAS for both Antarctic sea-ice thickness/volume (zacklabe.com/antarctic-sea-ice-extentconcentration/) and global sea-ice volume (zacklabe.com/global-sea-ice-extent-conc/).
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National Snow and Ice Data Center
NSIDC
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
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National Snow and Ice Data Center
NSIDC
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
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