Climate Change Impacts Explained in Real Time

Greenland Daily and Cumulative Ice Melt

National Snow and Ice Data Center

Click through to the site to get satellite images and information about melting on the Greenland ice sheet.

Images are updated daily, with periodical analysis as conditions warrant.

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