Haas’s book From the Eyes of the Vikings: An Aerial Vision of Arctic Lands ... discover the Arctic from a bird’s-eye view. This story was published in 2010 and updated in December 2018.

Satellites can now measure the thickness of sea-ice covering the Arctic Ocean all year round ... To measure thickness, scientists use satellite altimeters. The European Space Agency's (Esa ...

Satellite data from the last three decades documents the dramatic changes in Arctic sea ice due to climate ... lateral pressures on sea ice. Wind or ocean currents can stack floes up, forming ...

The rapid melting and thinning of the Arctic ice has sparked serious ... which is processed onboard and transmitted via satellite, enabling long-term, unmanned ocean monitoring.

Summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean might be a thing of the past by ... Northwest Passage were "largely open," the report card said Satellite records show an increase in maritime shipping in ...

The Arctic is warming nearly four times faster than anywhere else on Earth. In some areas of the Arctic Ocean, the warming ... trends between 1979, when satellite data became available, and ...

Now, new research has found that Arctic Ocean sea ice is shrinking even faster ... well documented since at least 1979, when continuous satellite observations began. Since then, there has been ...

and evaluate how this new concept of the Arctic Ocean helps in closing further gaps in our knowledge, in particular in view of the risks of manmade climate change,” said Dr Geibert. The research ...