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    • Land Ice: Greenland & Antarctic ice mass anomaly

    Metadata Updated: April 24, 2025

    Data from NASA's Grace satellites show that the land ice sheets in both Antarctica 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.

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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-0000043
    Data First Published 2018-06-25
    Data Last Modified 2025-04-23
    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 303f869e-9efc-418e-942e-798ad47c21b4
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://data.nasa.gov/dataset/land-ice-greenland-antarctic-ice-mass-anomaly
    Old Spatial regional
    Program Code 026:000
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 1a5bc70444c01cbb1d21393f51277499e717328c720feac970eccbaafbbeb653
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2002-01-01/2013-01-01

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