Ice Sheet Science
Ice Sheet Science | National Snow and Ice Data Center
Explore near real-time melt maps, graphs, and scientific analyses of the Greenland Ice Sheet and Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Ice Sheet - National Geographic Education
An ice sheet is a type of glacier that covers a very large area. Grades. 9 - 12. Subjects. Earth Science, Geology, Meteorology, Oceanography, ...
Ice Sheets - NASA Sea Level Change Portal
Ice sheets are continental-scale masses of ice that rest on land. The shape of an ice sheet is a dome that slopes downwards toward its edges.
Ice Sheet Quick Facts | National Snow and Ice Data Center
Ice sheets contain enormous quantities of frozen water. If the Greenland Ice Sheet melted entirely, scientists estimate that sea level would rise about 7.4 ...
Ice Sheets | Vital Signs – Climate Change - NASA
This is important because the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica store about two-thirds of all the fresh water on Earth. They are losing ice due to the ...
Ice sheet | Definition, Formation, Types, Examples, & Facts | Britannica
Ice sheet, any glacier that extends in continuous sheets, moving outward in all directions, whose area exceeds more than 50000 square km (19000 square ...
Glaciers & Ice Sheets - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
How are scientists studying glaciers and ice sheets? ... Researchers are monitoring glaciers and ice sheets in an effort to track changes in their structure and ...
Ice Sheets & Glaciers - Polar Science Center
Numerous recent studies have revealed rapid change in ice discharge from Greenland's outlet glaciers. A near doubling in flow speed of many of Greenland's ...
Ice Sheets and Glaciers - Florida Atlantic University
Ice sheets form when winter snow does not melt completely during the summer months. There are two ice sheets on Earth and they cover most of Greenland and ...
Climate and Ice - UCAR Center for Science Education
Meltwater at the top of the Greenland ice sheet flows through a hole in the ice, down to the base. In recent years the ice has been melting faster, and water at ...
The dawn of the Antarctic ice sheets - ScienceDaily
In recent years global warming has left its mark on the Antarctic ice sheets. The 'eternal' ice in Antarctica is melting faster than ...
Genetic insight on ice sheet history - Science
Genetic insight on ice sheet history. Octopus DNA reveals timing of the most recent collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
About Ice Cores | NSF Ice Core Facility
Ice cores are cylinders of ice drilled from ice sheets and glaciers. They are essentially frozen time capsules that allow scientists to reconstruct climate far ...
New tipping point discovered beneath the Antarctic ice sheet
A new and worrying way that large ice sheets can melt has been characterized by scientists for the first time. The research focuses on how ...
In glaciology, an ice sheet, also known as a continental glacier, is a mass of glacial ice that covers surrounding terrain and is greater than 50,000 km2 ...
Do melting ice sheets spell doomsday? Glaciologist weighs in
Ice sheets are a lot more than just a home for polar bears and penguins. The massive sections of glacial ice cover more than 6 million ...
Ice Sheet and Climate Processes Driving the Uncertainty in ...
The ice sheets covering Antarctica and Greenland present the greatest uncertainty in, and largest potential contribution to, future sea level rise.
Scientists identify new Antarctic ice sheet 'tipping point,' warning ...
The Antarctic ice sheet is melting in a new, worrying way not taken into account by current models of future sea level rise, according to a ...
Scientists find evidence that meltwater is fracturing ice shelves in ...
Increased temperatures from climate change cause ponds that weaken ice, expedition finds. A group of scientists who placed instruments on an ice ...
History, mass loss, structure, and dynamic behavior of the Antarctic ...
Antarctica contains most of Earth's fresh water stored in two large ice sheets. The more stable East Antarctic Ice Sheet is larger and older ...