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Arctic Moisture on the Move

The decline of sea ice is leading to a wetter and warmer Arctic.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Jesse Allen, using AIRS data provided by Linette Boisvert (NASA/GSFC), and Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and acquired by special request with the support of Theresa Arvidson (NASA/GSFC) and Eugene Fosnight (USGS/EDC). Caption by Kathryn Hansen.

Published April 7, 2015
Data acquired June 21, 2014

Sources:
Aqua > AIRS
Landsat 8 > OLI