The loss of Snow and Ice products from NSIDC will be a huge blow to polar science. Everything from understanding ecosystem dynamics, air-sea gas exchange, carbon uptake, changing ocean dynamics will be impacted.
nsidc.org/data/user-re... . Just an astonishing level of forced ignorance.
User notice: Level of Service Update for Data Products | National Snow and Ice Data Center
Effective May 5, 2025, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) will decommission its snow and ice data products from the Coasts, Oceans, and Geophysics Science Division (COGS).