NOAA Arctic Report Card 2025 : Glaciers and Ice Caps Outside Greenland

Wolken, G.; Burgess, D.; Wouters, B.; Andreassen, L. M.; Kohler, J.; Luks, B.; Pálsson, F.; Thomson, L.; Thorsteinsson, T.

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NOAA Arctic Report Card 2025 : Glaciers and Ice Caps Outside Greenland

2025
By Wolken, G. ; Burgess, D. ; Wouters, B. ; ...
Series: NOAA technical report OAR ARC 25-10 (Arctic Report Card)

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Alternative Title:

Glaciers and Ice Caps Outside Greenland
Personal Author:

Wolken, G. ; Burgess, D. ; Wouters, B. ; Andreassen, L. M. ; Kohler, J. ; Luks, B. ; Pálsson, F. ; Thomson, L. ; Thorsteinsson, T.
Corporate Authors:

Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing (U.S.) ; University of Alaska Fairbanks. ; Alaska. Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys. ; Geological Survey of Canada. ; Technische Universiteit Delft. ; Norges vassdrags- og energidirektorat. ; Norsk polarinstitutt. ; Polska Akademia Nauk. ; Háskóli Íslands. ; Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.) ; Veðurstofa Íslands.
NOAA Program & Office:

OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) ; GOMO (Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing) ; PMEL (Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory)
Description:

The Arctic contains 60% of the world’s mountain glaciers and ice caps by area, excluding the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets (RGI Consortium 2023) (Fig. 1). While Arctic glaciers and ice caps’ potential longterm sea level contribution is smaller than that of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, they are more responsive to climate variability and have been a leading contributor to recent sea level rise due to persistent atmospheric warming (The GlaMBIE Team 2025; Hugonnet et al. 2021; Wouters et al. 2019; Box et al. 2019).
Keywords:

Arctic Regions Climatic Changes Glaciers Ice Caps Monitoring Arctic Regions Climatic Changes Ice Caps
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NOAA technical report OAR ARC 25-10 (Arctic Report Card)
DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25923/f47r-hd76
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pdf
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Technical Report
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Arctic Ocean
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https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
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CC0 Public Domain
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Submitted
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