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Cryosat-2 Now Sending Data on Arctic and Antarctic Ice Thickness

The Cryosat-2 mission is delivering on its promise to make high-precision radar measurements of polar ice.
The first data from the European spacecraft has been presented at an Earth observation meeting in Norway.
The information clearly shows Cryosat has the required sensitivity to assess the state of Antarctic and Arctic ice

Why has the surface of the Arctic sea ice remained frozen this March?

Yesterday morning, March 30, I emailed James Overland with the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory/NOAA  in Seattle asking him about the slow melt of visible Arctic sea ice, adding that this was certain to stoke the fires of the army of climate skeptics. This morning Dr. Overland replied that “the winds on the Atlantic side were [...]