Sea Ice Page

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

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Global Sea Ice:

Global, Arctic, & Antarctic Sea Ice Area

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

 

Arctic Graphs:

Arctic Sea Ice Extent – 15% or greater:

National Snow & Ice Data Center (NSIDC) – click to use their interactive extent graph generator

JAXA Arctic Sea Ice Extent – 15% or Greater:

JAXA data download (CSV file of extent) here

Arctic Sea ice extent 15% coverage or greater  (DMI)

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

Arctic Sea Ice Extent 15% or Greater (NANSEN):

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

Arctic Sea Ice Area:

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

Sea Ice Extent – Change in Maximum, Mean and Minimum

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Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC) – Arctic Regional Ocean Observing System (ROOS) – Click the pic to view at source

Arctic Sea Ice Forecast from NOAA:

Northern Regional Sea Ice Charts

Map of the Arctic – Thanks to REP

National Snow & Ice Data Center (NSIDC) – The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection – click to view at source

Ice coverage charts by supplier

Norway Meteorological SAF – http://polarview.met.no/

Russia’s “Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute” offers a sea-ice map that distinguishes between first and multi-year ice on their winter maps – http://www.aari.ru/odata/_d0015.php?lang=1&mod=1

Cryosat-2 ice thickness data, based on actual measurements, not modelling – http://www.cpom.ucl.ac.uk/csopr/seaice.html

Graphs of Ice Coverage by Basin

Central Arctic: NSIDC

Baffin Bay/Gulf of St. Lawrence: NSIDC

Baltic Sea: NSIDC

Barents Sea: NSIDC – Arctic ROOS

Beaufort Sea: NSIDC

Bering Sea: NSIDC

Canadian Archipelago: NSIDC

Chukchi Sea: NSIDC

Cook Inlet: NSIDC

East Siberian Sea: NSIDC

Greenland Sea: NSIDC – Arctic ROOS

Hudson Bay: NSIDC

Kara Sea: NSIDC – Arctic ROOS

Laptev Sea: NSIDC

Sea of Okhotsk: NSIDC

Yellow Sea: NSIDC

Sources:

National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)

Nansen Arctic ROOS

Arctic Temperature:

Mean Temperature above 80°N

Original source: http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/plots/meanTarchive/meanT_2021.png

Source and historical files: http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php

RSS Northern Polar Temperature Lower Troposphere (TLT) – 1979 to present

Northern Hemisphere Surface Temperatures

Arctic Sea Surface Temperature

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

NRL – Arctic Sea Surface Temperature – 30 Day Animation

NRL – Arctic Sea Surface Temperature – 365 Day Animation

Moyhu – Arctic Sea Surface Temperature – 50 Day Animation

Moyhu – Arctic Sea Surface Temperature – 365 Day Animation

Sea Ice Concentration:

Arctic Sea Ice Concentration

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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

Arctic Sea Ice Concentration – 365 Day Animation

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 Thickness

N.B. Per the University of Bremen: Thin sea ice occurs during the freezing season. In the melting season, the thickness of sea ice is highly variable and the emission properties in the microwave change due to the wetness of the surface and occurrence of melt ponds in the Arctic. Therefore, thickness data are calculated only during the freezing season, that is from October to April in the Arctic and from March to September in the Antarctic. During the melting season, the procedure does not yield meaningful results.

Real-Time Nowcast/Forecast in Meters

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

Arctic Sea Ice Thickness – 30 Day Animation

Arctic Sea Ice Thickness – 365 Day Animation

Arctic Sea Ice Speed & Drift

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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

Arctic Sea Ice Speed & Drift – 365 Day Animation

Ice Drift in the Arctic Ocean:

Danish Meteorological Institute – Click the pic to view at source

N.B.: DMI says this is demonstration product. Frequently the images rendered will simply be wrong.

Arctic Sea Ice Volume

Model from the University of Washington (Note: this is only updated monthly, and is a model output, not a real-time observation, details here)

Source: [ http://psc.apl.washington.edu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/schweiger/ice_volume/BPIOMASIceVolumeAnomalyCurrentV2.1.png ]

Greenland Ice Sheet surface mass balance images from Polar Portal’s Greenland pages

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Portal Polar – Map showing ice gain/loss anomalies since Sept 1. – Click the pic to view full size
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Portal Polar – Graph of daily and total ice gain/loss since Sept 1. – Click the pic to view full size

Arctic Satellite Imagery:

True Color Arctic Satellite Image – With Google Maps Zoom – arctic.io – Infrared and Global imagery is available from the Arctic and Global dropdowns on the map linked above.

Terra 4km True Color Arctic Satellite Image – Mosaic Image – With Zoom – NASA

Terra 4km Bands 3-6-7 Arctic Satellite Image – Arctic Satellite Mosaic Image – With Zoom – NASA

Aqua 4km True Color Arctic Satellite Image – Mosaic Image – With Zoom – NASA

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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

JAXA Antarctic Sea Ice Extent – 15% or Greater:

JAXA data download (CSV file of Antarctic extent) here

Antarctic Temperature:

RSS Southern Polar Temperature Lower Troposphere (TLT) – 1979 to present

Antarctic Sea Surface Temperature

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

NRL Antarctic Sea Surface Temperature – 30 Day Animation

NRL Antarctic Sea Surface Temperature – 365 Day Animation

Moyhu Antarctic Sea Surface Temperature – 50 Day Animation

Moyhu Antarctic Sea Surface Temperature – 365 Day Animation

Antarctic Sea Ice Imagery:

Southern Hemisphere Sea Ice Extent With Anomaly

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

South Pole Station Webcam

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Amundsen-Scott

Source Guide:

Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) – Centre for Ocean and Ice

Home Page – http://ocean.dmi.dk/english/index.php

Arctic Page – http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/index.uk.php

arctic.io

Home Page – http://www.arctic.io/

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

moyhu – Nick Stokes

Home Page – http://www.moyhu.blogspot.com.au/

Regional Hi-Res SST Movies – http://www.moyhu.blogspot.com.au/p/sst-regional-movies-as-described-here-i.html

Collection of High Resolution NOAA SST Images with WebGL – http://www.moyhu.blogspot.com.au/p/blog-page.html

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 – https://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/GLBhycomcice1-12/

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

Naval Coastal Ocean Model – https://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/GLBhycom1-12/

National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC):

Home Page – http://nsidc.org/

Regional FTP Page – ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/DATASETS/NOAA/G02186/plots/

Northern Hemisphere Sea Ice Extent – ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/DATASETS/NOAA/G02135/north/daily/data/

Southern Hemisphere Sea Ice Extent – ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/DATASETS/NOAA/G02135/south/daily/data/

University of Bremen:

Home Page – http://www.iup.uni-bremen.de/eng/

Sea Ice Page – https://seaice.uni-bremen.de/sea-ice-concentration/

International Arctic Research Center/Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (IARC-JAXA)

Home Page – http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/

FTP Page – http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) – Lance Modis

Home Page – http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/imagery/

Rapid Response Satellite Page – http://earthdata.nasa.gov/data/near-real-time-data/rapid-response

National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) – National Centers for Environmental Information (nee 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:

Product Page http://www.natice.noaa.gov/Main_Products.htm

National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Arctic Program Website:

http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) – Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL)

Home Page – https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/

Physical Sciences Division (PSD) Products Page – https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/products/

Physical Sciences Division (PSD) Climate and Weather Data Page – https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/

Physical Sciences Division (PSD) Maps Room – https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/map/

Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC) – Arctic Regional Ocean Observing System (ROOS):

Home Page – http://arctic-roos.org/

Norway Meteorological SAF Sea Ice:

Home Page – http://saf.met.no/p/ice/index.html

Washington University 2000-2015 North Pole Environmental Observatory:

http://psc.apl.washington.edu/northpole/