Atlas of the Cryosphere

The Atlas of the Cryosphere provides an interactive web interface, maps, and data sources to explore the Earth's frozen regions. Viewed from a polar perspective, the available data sources include snow cover, sea ice extent and concentration, glaciers, ice sheets, permafrost, and other critical components of the Earth's cryosphere. Users can zoom in to a specific region on the Earth as well as overlay country borders, major cities, and other geographic information. They can save custom maps as images for use in other documents, save underlying source data for use in geographic information systems (GIS) and image analysis software, and view monthly climatologies of snow and sea ice to see how and where the cryosphere shrinks and grows over the course of a year.