Sea Ice Reference Page

Global Sea Ice Reference Page: Arctic and Antarctic current graphs and imagery

Given the intense interest in Arctic Sea Ice extent this year, I’ve decided to put all the sea ice graphs in one handy place for easy nail biting reference. All images are automatically updated immediately upon update at their source.

Shortlink for this page: http://wp.me/P7y4l-5Kc (suitable for blog or Twitter comments)

Global Sea Ice:

Global Sea Ice Area and Anomaly

Cryosphere Today – Arctic Climate Research at the University of Illinois - Click the pic to view at source

Global, Arctic & Antarctic Sea Ice Area

climate4you.com - Ole Humlum - Professor, University of Oslo Department of Geosciences - Click the pic to view at source

Global Sea Ice Cover

National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) – National Weather Service – Environmental Modeling Center - Click the pic to view at source

Arctic Graphs:

Arctic Sea Ice Extent – 15% or greater

National Snow & Ice Data Center (NSIDC) - click to view at source

Arctic Sea ice extent 15% or greater

ssmi1-ice-ext

Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) - Centre for Ocean and Ice - Click the pic to view at source

Arctic Sea Ice Extent 15% or Greater

ssmi1-ice-ext

NANSEN Artic ROOS - Click the pic to view at source

NANSEN data (CSV file with both extent and area) download here

Arctic Sea Ice Area

ssmi1-ice-area

NANSEN Artic ROOS- Click the pic to view at source

NANSEN data (CSV file with both extent and area) download here

Northern Hemisphere Sea Ice Area Anomaly

Cryosphere Today – Arctic Climate Research at the University of Illinois - Click the pic to view at source

Mean Temperature above 80°N

Danish Meteorological Institute - Click the pic to view at source

Northern Hemisphere Sea Surface Temperature

Danish Meteorological Institute - Click for data archive and animation tool

Northern Hemisphere Surface Temperatures

NOAA ESRL - Click the pic to view at source

Arctic Sea Surface Temperature

http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/hycomARC/navo/arcticsstnowcast.gif

Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) - HYCOM Consortium for Data-Assimilative Ocean Modeling - Click the pic to view at source

Arctic Sea Surface Temperature – 30 Day Animation: – (NRL):
http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/hycomARC/navo/arcticsst_nowcast_anim30d.gif
Arctic Sea Surface Temperature – 365 Day Animation – (NRL):
http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/hycomARC/navo/arcticsst_nowcast_anim365d.gif


Sea Ice Concentration:

Arctic Sea Ice Concentration

http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/hycomARC/navo/arcticicennowcast.gif

Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) - HYCOM Consortium for Data-Assimilative Ocean Modeling - Click the pic to view at source

Arctic Sea Ice Concentration – 30 Day Animation: – (NRL):
http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/hycomARC/navo/arcticice_nowcast_anim30d.gif
Arctic Sea Ice Concentration – 365 Day Animation – (NRL):
http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/hycomARC/navo/arcticice_nowcast_anim365d.gif

Arctic Sea Ice Concentration

http://home.comcast.net/~ewerme/wuwt/cryo_latest_small.jpg

Cryosphere Today – Arctic Climate Research at the University of Illinois - Click the pic to view at source

Download various Cryosphere Today data sets here

Arctic Sea Ice Concentration – Same Date Compared With 2007

http://home.comcast.net/~ewerme/wuwt/cryo_compare_small.jpg

Cryosphere Today – Arctic Climate Research at the University of Illinois - Click the pic to view at source (thanks to Ric Werme)

Canadian Sea Ice Concentration

EC/Canadian Ice Service Map - Click the pic to view at source

Arctic Sea Ice Extent With Anomaly

National Snow & Ice Data Center (NSIDC) - Click the pic to view at source

Arctic Sea Ice Speed & Drift

http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/hycomARC/navo/arcticicespddrfnowcast.gif

Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) - HYCOM Consortium for Data-Assimilative Ocean Modeling - Click the pic to view at source

Arctic Sea Ice Speed & Drift – 30 Day Animation: – (NRL):
http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/hycomARC/navo/arcticicespddrf_nowcast_anim30d.gif
Arctic Sea Ice Speed & Drift – 365 Day Animation – (NRL):
http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/hycomARC/navo/arcticicespddrf_nowcast_anim365d.gif

Drifting “North Pole” Camera

NOAA - Click the pic to view at source

Cam 1: http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/latest/noaa1.jpg

Cam 2: http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/latest/noaa2.jpg


Antarctic Graphs:

Antarctic Sea Ice Extent – 15% or Greater

National Snow & Ice Data Center (NSIDC) - Click the pic to view at source

Southern Hemisphere Sea Ice Area Anomaly

Cryosphere Today – Arctic Climate Research at the University of Illinois - Click the pic to view at source


Antarctic Sea Ice Imagery:

Antarctic Sea Ice Concentration

Antarctic sea ice

Cryosphere Today – Arctic Climate Research at the University of Illinois - Click the pic to view at source

Southern Hemisphere Sea Ice Extent With Anomaly

Antarctic sea ice

National Snow & Ice Data Center (NSIDC) - Click the pic to view at source

South Pole Station Webcam (offline in SH winter)

http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/webdata/spo/webcam/cmdlfullsize.jpg

Amundsen-Scott


Broken Graphs:

Arctic Sea Ice Extent -15% or Greater

International Arctic Research Center/Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (IARC-JAXA) - Click the pic to view at source

Arctic Sea Ice Area

International Arctic Research Center/Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (IARC-JAXA) - Click the pic to view at source

JAXA data download (CSV file of extent) here Details here

Arctic Sea Ice Extent – 15% or Greater

University of Bremen - click to view at source

Download historical data grids here More info here

Arctic Sea Ice Extent

ssmi1-ice-area

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) - National Ice Center - Interactive Multisensor Snow and Ice Mapping System (IMS) - Click the pic to view at source

Northern Hemisphere Total (Sea and Lake) Ice Extent

ssmi1-ice-area

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) - National Ice Center Interactive Multisensor Snow and Ice Mapping System (IMS) - Click the pic to view at source

Antarctic Sea Ice Extent – 15% or Greater

University of Bremen - Click the pic to view at source

Source Guide:

climate4you.com – Ole Humlum – Professor, University of Oslo Department of Geosciences
Home Page -http://climate4you.com/
Ole Humlum Bibliography – http://climate4you.com/Text/BIBLIOGRAPHY%20OLE%20HUMLUM.pdf

Cryosphere Today – Arctic Climate Research at the University of Illinois:
Home Page – http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/
Products Page – http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/
Images Indexed By Date – http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/

Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) – HYCOM Consortium for Data-Assimilative Ocean Modeling
NRL Home Page – http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/
NRL Products Page – http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/proddemo.htm
HYCOM Home Page – http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/hycomARC/
Satellite Products Page- http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/sat_products.html
Data Page – http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/archdat/
Multi-view – http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/sat-bin/global.cgi
Navel Coasal Ocean Model – http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/global_ncom/
FTP Page – http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/global_ncom/Links/
FTP Page Global – http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/global_ncom/Links/glb/

National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC):
http://nsidc.org/
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/
http://nsidc.org/searchlight/

University of Bremenpart
http://www.iup.uni-bremen.de/eng/
http://www.iup.uni-bremen.de/iuppage/psa/2001/amsrop.html
http://www.iup.uni-bremen.de:8084/

International Arctic Research Center/Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (IARC-JAXA)
http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/
http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/

Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) – Centre for Ocean and Ice
http://ocean.dmi.dk/english/index.php
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/index.uk.php

National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) – National Climate Data Center
Home Page – http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html
Public FTP Page – http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/cmb/

National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) – National Weather Service – Environmental Modeling Center
Home Page – http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/
Sea Ice Analyses Page – http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/seaice/Analyses.html
Public FTP Page – ftp://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/
Sea Ice FTP Page – ftp://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/ice/
Regional Arctic Sea Ice FTP Page – ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/DATASETS/NOAA/G02186/plots/

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) – National Ice Center:
Home Page http://www.natice.noaa.gov/mission.html?bandwidth=high

National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) – National Weather Service NOAA Arctic Cam Page:
http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/gallery_np.html

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) – Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL)
Home Page – http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/
Physical Sciences Division (PSD) Products Page – http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/products/
Physical Sciences Division (PSD) Data Data Page – http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/
Physical Sciences Division (PSD) Data Maps Page – http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/map/

NANSEN Environmental and Remote Sensing Center:
http://arctic-roos.org/observations/satellite-data/sea-ice/ice-area-and-extent-in-arctic

Norway Meteorological SAF Sea Ice:
http://saf.met.no/p/ice/index.html

Washington University North Pole Environmental Observatory:
http://psc.apl.washington.edu/northpole/


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