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Scientists And Polar Explorers Brave The Elements In Support Of CryoSat-2
April 19, 2007 — It is perhaps an unlikely combination -- an international team of scientists stationed in Svalbard, Norway and two polar explorers crossing the North Pole on foot. Both teams, however, are currently ... > full story -
Snowmelt Monitored In The Baltic Sea Watershed Region In Near Real Time
April 5, 2007 — As spring melt of winter snow is underway in the Baltic Sea watershed region, satellites are monitoring and mapping the snow melting process to help local authorities manage water supplies and ... > full story -
Reindeer And Snowflakes: NASA Helps During International Polar Year
April 4, 2007 — Two things that come to mind during wintertime are snowflakes and reindeer. Now, NASA is providing technology to help study both of those in various ways during a kick off of the International Polar ... > full story -
Gravity Measurements Help Melt Ice Mysteries
March 27, 2007 — Greenland is cold and hot. It's a deep freezer storing 10 percent of Earth's ice and a subject of fevered debate. If something should melt all that ice, global sea level could rise as much as 7 ... > full story -
Global December-February Temperature Warmest On Record
March 16, 2007 — NOAA reports that February's combined global land and ocean surface temperature was the sixth warmest on record, but a strong El Nino in January helped push the winter to its highest value since ... > full story -
CryoSat-2 To Assess Thickness Of Arctic Ice
March 12, 2007 — Building a satellite in just three years is without doubt an ambitious undertaking. Nevertheless, the decision to rebuild CryoSat and recover the mission includes just that goal. A year on and the ... > full story -
Miniature Lab Ice Spikes May Hold Clues To Warming Impacts On Glaciers
March 5, 2007 — Tiny lab versions of 12-foot tall snow spikes that form naturally on some high mountain glaciers may someday help scientists mitigate the effects of global warming in the Andes, according to a ... > full story -
Heatwave On The Top Of The World
March 2, 2007 — CNRS scientists in collaboration with a team announce findings that global warming has increased the average temperature by 0.74 degrees C over the last century. This result was published on Feb. 7, ... > full story -
Better Freshwater Forecasts To Aid Drought-Plagued West
February 18, 2007 — Western droughts wreak social, economic and environmental havoc. Yet the ability to predict drought at seasonal lead times -- months or longer -- has scarcely improved since the 1960s. Computer ... > full story -
Glaciers Not On Simple, Upward Trend Of Melting
February 12, 2007 — Two of Greenland's largest glaciers shrank dramatically and dumped twice as much ice into the sea during a period of less than a year between 2004 and 2005. And then, less than two years later, they ... > full story
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