News about ice

#Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 9th lowest on record (JAXA data) • about 90,000 km² below the 2010s mean • about 410,000 km² below the 2000s mean • about 820,000 km² below the 1990s mean • about 1,370,000 km² below the 1980s mean Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-extentconcentration/ pic.twitter.com/k5BuUGePU0

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

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