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Using 200 million measurements collected by ESA’s CryoSat mission between January 2011 and January 2014, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany have discovered that the Antarctic ice sheet is shrinking in volume by 125 cubic kilometres a year. The study, which was published in a paper published on 20 August 2014 in the European Geosciences Union’s Cryosphere journal, also showed that Greenland is losing about 375 cubic kilometres a year

CryoSat Shows Record Loss of Polar Ice

August 16, 2015October 1, 2014by Rebecca Maxwell

Scientists concerned about climate change are closely monitoring the thickness of polar sea ice. For many years, ice cover has been deemed a significant gauge … Read more

Download CryoSat-2 Ice and Ocean Data Products

June 11, 2014by Caitlin Dempsey

The polar-orbiting CryoSat-2 satellite provides researchers with a ice and ocean data that is helping to understanding the current state of the world’s ice sheets and … Read more

GIS Data of the World’s Glaciers

October 6, 2014May 6, 2014by Caitlin Dempsey

An international group of seventy scientists hailing from more than eighteen countries have created the first global datasets of the world’s glaciers (not including the … Read more