1. Cryosphere Today (University of Illinois) is offline. The site at
arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/ has been discontinued. The two Beaufort Sea ice anomaly charts from this source have been replaced with current NSIDC and NASA GSFC equivalents below.2. NRL HYCOM Arctic Cap Nowcast/Forecast System (ACFNS) was superseded by the Global Ocean Forecast System (GOFS) in November 2018. The Beaufort-specific HYCOM nowcast GIF products have not updated since ~2017. They are retained below with links to current NRL HYCOM products; if any individual image no longer loads, the fallback link will take you to the current product page.
Beaufort Sea Ice Concentration – Current
Arctic Sea Ice Concentration – Current Daily Map (includes Beaufort Sea)
NOAA/NSIDC – Sea Ice Index v4 – Daily Arctic Sea Ice Concentration –
nsidc.org/data/seaice_index – Click the pic to view at source
(Replacing Cryosphere Today – University of Illinois – now offline)
Arctic Sea Ice Extent – Current Daily Map
NOAA/NSIDC – Sea Ice Index v4 – Daily Arctic Sea Ice Extent – nsidc.org/data/seaice_index – Click the pic to view at source
Beaufort Sea Ice Area – 1979 to Present (Anomaly)
▶ NSIDC Sea Ice Index – Image Archive (daily and monthly, regional)
▶ NASA GSFC – Current State of Sea Ice Cover
▶ NSIDC Charctic – Interactive Arctic Sea Ice Extent Graph
▶ Climate Reanalyzer – Daily Sea Ice Extent and Concentration
NRL HYCOM Beaufort Sea Nowcast/Forecast Products
Sea Ice Thickness – Real-Time Nowcast/Forecast (meters)
Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) – HYCOM Consortium – Click the pic to view at source
▶ Sea Ice Thickness – 30 Day Animation | 365 Day Animation
Sea Ice Concentration – Real-Time Nowcast/Forecast
Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) – HYCOM Consortium – Click the pic to view at source
▶ Sea Ice Concentration – 30 Day Animation | 365 Day Animation
Lead Area Opening Rate – Real-Time Nowcast/Forecast
Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) – HYCOM Consortium – Click the pic to view at source
▶ Lead Area Opening Rate – 30 Day Animation | 365 Day Animation
Arctic Sea Ice Speed & Drift – Real-Time Nowcast/Forecast
Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) – HYCOM Consortium – Click the pic to view at source
▶ Ice Speed & Drift – 30 Day Animation | 365 Day Animation
Compressive Strength – Real-Time Nowcast/Forecast
Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) – HYCOM Consortium – Click the pic to view at source
▶ Compressive Strength – 30 Day Animation | 365 Day Animation
Sea Surface Temperature – Real-Time Nowcast/Forecast
Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) – HYCOM Consortium – Click the pic to view at source
▶ Sea Surface Temperature – 30 Day Animation | 365 Day Animation
Sea Surface Salinity – Real-Time Nowcast/Forecast
Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) – HYCOM Consortium – Click the pic to view at source
▶ Sea Surface Salinity – 30 Day Animation | 365 Day Animation
Additional Current Beaufort / Arctic Sea Ice Resources:
▶ NSIDC Sea Ice Index v4 – Daily and monthly Arctic sea ice extent and concentration images
▶ NSIDC Charctic – Interactive Arctic sea ice extent graph (multi-year comparison)
▶ NASA GSFC – Current State of Sea Ice Cover – Daily Arctic and Antarctic concentration and extent
▶ Climate Reanalyzer – Daily Sea Ice – Daily extent time series and concentration maps
▶ NRL GOFS Arctic – Current NRL Global Ocean Forecast System Arctic products (successor to ACFNS)
▶ NASA Worldview – Arctic – Near-real-time MODIS and AMSR2 satellite imagery of the Beaufort Sea
Source Guide:
Cryosphere Today – University of Illinois Polar Research Group (discontinued)
Home Page – Offline. Historical data and imagery may be available via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)
Home Page – https://nsidc.org/
Sea Ice Index – https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index
Image Archive – https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/data-and-image-archive
Charctic Interactive Graph – https://nsidc.org/sea-ice-today/sea-ice-tools/charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph
Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) – Ocean Dynamics and Prediction Branch (NRL 7320)
HYCOM ARC Home – https://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/hycomARC/
HYCOM Beaufort Products – https://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/hycomARC/beaufort.html
GOFS Arctic (current system) – https://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/GLBhycomcice1-12/arctic.html
Note: ACFNS retired 2018, replaced by GOFS (Global Ocean Forecast System).
NASA GSFC – Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory
Current State of Sea Ice Cover – https://earth.gsfc.nasa.gov/cryo/data/current-state-sea-ice-cover
Climate Reanalyzer – University of Maine
Daily Sea Ice – https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/seaice_daily/
NASA Worldview
Arctic View – https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?p=arctic
Hi just passing by and noticed you don’t have worldview images here
Any chance you could add worldview here so the warmists can seen there is still plenty of ice in the beaufort ?
https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?p=arctic&l=MODIS_Aqua_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor(hidden),MODIS_Aqua_CorrectedReflectance_Bands721(hidden),MODIS_Terra_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor(hidden),MODIS_Terra_CorrectedReflectance_Bands367(hidden),MODIS_Terra_CorrectedReflectance_Bands721,Graticule,Coastlines&t=2016-04-29&v=-2757011.9518237985,-628528.4207445931,-418935.6271592486,534421.0011588678
Sea ice is being controlled by the wandering magnetic poles. Do you believe that? Pull up this website on a desktop monitor and study the graphics.
https://www.harrytodd.org