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    • Monthly snow/ice averages (ISCCP)

    Metadata Updated: April 24, 2025

    September Arctic sea ice is now declining at a rate of 11.5 percent per decade, relative to the 1979 to 2000 average. Data from NASA show that the land ice sheets in both Anarctica and Greenland are losing mass. The continent of Antarctica (left chart) has been losing more than 100 cubic kilometers (24 cubic miles) of ice per year since 2002. The International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) was established in 1982 as part of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) to collect and analyze the global distribution of clouds, their properties, and their diurnal, seasonal, and interannual variations. This research includes snow and ice datat that can provide insight into the Land and Artic Ice issues that are being investigated.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date April 24, 2025
    Data Update Frequency irregular

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date April 24, 2025
    Publisher National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    Maintainer
    Identifier NASA-0000045
    Data First Published 2018-06-25
    Data Last Modified 2025-04-23
    Category Earth Science
    Public Access Level public
    Data Update Frequency irregular
    Bureau Code 026:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id d6a7b257-ff3d-4956-9c9a-32fff74f8517
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://data.nasa.gov/dataset/monthly-snowice-averages-isccp
    Old Spatial global
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 5d8f20a373e1a234a537b4377f644fc962cc879c83eb427fe147ed0f4e72bfeb
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 1994-01-01/2008-01-01

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