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The National Snow as well as Ice Data Center has created a serial of interactive maps which visualize Satellite Observations of Arctic Change. The maps allow y'all to come across how ocean ice, snowfall comprehend as well as frozen soil accept all been shrinking during the 21st Century. Other maps plot air temperature changes inward the Arctic as well as the changes to Arctic vegetation.

Global warming is causing observable changes to ecological systems inward the Arctic. Air temperatures inward the Arctic are ascent as well as ocean H2O ice extent is declining. Even Arctic vegetation is changing alongside tundra beingness replaced yesteryear shrubs.

Each of the NSIDC interactive maps uses NASA satellite information as well as query to plot changes to the Arctic from 1979 to 2015. The maps allow y'all to give away the information for each twelvemonth inward this catamenia to give away how global warming has effected the ecological systems of the Arctic.


If y'all desire to exercise your ain interactive maps of the Arctic thence y'all tin dismiss operate the Arctic Web Map service. Arctic Web Map is an Arctic specific spider web mapping tool, consisting of an Arctic-focused tile server as well as a Leaflet-based customer library.

There are half dozen Arctic projections available, each using a Lambert Azimuthal Equal-Area (LAEA) stance of the North Pole region. The Arctic Web Map tiles are compatible alongside Leaflet maps, when used alongside the Proj4JS as well as Proj4Leaflet libraries. The map tiles are available to operate gratis of accuse for low-traffic users. If y'all request high-traffic operate thence y'all should contact the Arctic Web Map.