this is not because the DMSP satellite has stopped working.
You know those “Antarctica Today” posts I’d put up for a while, showing surface melt extent accross Antarctica for every day of the melt season (Oct - April)?
They relied 100% on this data stream. Take it offline, that goes away completely.
Sea ice extent uses it too.
This is the ACTUAL message the the team at climate [dot] gov wanted to send out as their final post, before it was completely dehumanized.
bsky.app/profile/hale...
UGH! When will it end. 😭
"Effective October 15, 2025, due to non-renewed funding, NSIDC has suspended or reduced several Sea Ice Today tools and services."
nsidc.org/data/user-re...
Just embarrassing TBH.
I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff.
"Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)
When Earth warms, the total rainfall increases.
Here we show that this change in rainfall is also sensitive to the *pattern* of warming, build a theory to explain why, and use it to explain why rainfall increases more in uniform warming exps than abrupt-4xCO2 :)
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As of a few weeks ago, climate researchers thought they had at least until Sept before DOD cut off its passive microwave weather satellite data, used to track sea ice since the 1980s.
Now the cut off is coming in 5 days. Hope more reporters will cover now.
My recent story in @science.org:
The latest summary from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)... 😔
"With budget cuts from NASA for Sea Ice Today, we will no longer write mid-month analyses in the months leading up to the Arctic sea ice minimum." - @nsidc.bsky.social
We have a new book chapter out called "The future of sea ice" which I am excited to share: doi.org/10.1016/B978.... It reviews both the #Arctic and #Antarctic. If you are interested in it, don't hesitate to reach out 🙂
“There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says
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Andrew Williams
Paul Voosen
🚧Urgent notice to all SSMIS product users 🚧
We've just been informed that #SSMIS from the US #DMSP satellite will stop to be distributed on Monday 30/06/2025.
Consequently, we advise SSMIS only-based #SeaIce products users to urgently change.
More information:
osi-saf.eumetsat.int/community/st...
Data gaps come as Arctic sea ice shrinks to near-record lows
Arctic sea ice extent tracked at near-record low levels through much of June, hitting daily record low levels from June 20 to 26. Antarctic sea ice averaged third lowest for the month of June. There h...
Our final updates have been posted to the Climate.gov website, and this will be our final post to our social media channels.
Sad to see that leadership didn’t approve of my suggested post language (assuming since this is what is posted) that I submitted on my last day in May as the social media manager.
Allow me share some of our team’s kind words here instead:
Awful. More horrible science news
"The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) learned yesterday that the Department of Defense (DoD) will stop processing & delivering the Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) data no later than 30 June 2025."
EUMETSAT OSI SAF
NOAA Climate.gov
Zack Labe
Haley Thiem
Our final updates have been posted to the Climate.gov website, and this will be our final post to our social media channels.
NOAA Climate.gov
Awful. More horrible science news
"The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) learned yesterday that the Department of Defense (DoD) will stop processing & delivering the Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) data no later than 30 June 2025."
