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:

Global, Arctic and Antarctic Sea Ice Area – 1979 to Present

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

Arctic Graphs

Arctic Sea Ice Extent – 15% or greater:

Arctic Sea Ice Extent with Standard Deviation – NSIDC

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

→ NSIDC Charctic Interactive Sea Ice Graph

JAXA Arctic Sea Ice Extent – 15% or Greater:

JAXA Arctic Sea Ice Extent – Current Season

JAXA / NIPR – VISHOP Sea Ice Extent Viewer

JAXA data download (CSV file of extent) here

Arctic Sea Ice Extent 15% coverage or greater (DMI):

Arctic Sea Ice Extent – Danish Meteorological Institute

Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) – Centre for Ocean and Ice – Click the image to view at source | → DMI Arctic Sea Ice Extent

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

Arctic Sea Ice Extent – NERSC Arctic ROOS

Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC) – Arctic ROOS | → NERSC Arctic ROOS

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

Arctic Sea Ice Area:

Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC) – Arctic ROOS | → NERSC Arctic ROOS

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

Sea Ice Extent – Change in Maximum, Mean and Minimum:

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

Arctic Sea Ice Forecast from NOAA

NOAA CPC sea ice extent forecasts from the CFSv2 model:

→ NOAA CPC CFSv2 Sea Ice Extent Forecast

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 | → NSIDC Arctic Meteorology

Ice coverage charts by supplier:

OSI-SAF – EUMETSAT Ocean and Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility – https://osi-saf.eumetsat.int/products/sea-ice

Russia’s Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute – sea-ice map distinguishing between first and multi-year ice – https://www.aari.ru/odata/_d0015.php?lang=1&mod=1

CryoSat-2 ice thickness data based on actual measurements – https://cpom.org/csopr/seaice.html

Graphs of Ice Coverage by Basin – Regional sea ice time series are available from the NSIDC Sea Ice Index:

→ NSIDC Sea Ice Index – Regional Data and Graphs

Individual regional time series available for: Central Arctic · Baffin Bay/Gulf of St. Lawrence · Baltic Sea · Barents Sea · Beaufort Sea · Bering Sea · Canadian Archipelago · Chukchi Sea · Cook Inlet · East Siberian Sea · Greenland Sea · Hudson Bay · Kara Sea · Laptev Sea · Sea of Okhotsk · Yellow Sea

Sources:

National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) – Sea Ice Index

Nansen Arctic ROOS

Arctic Temperature

Mean Temperature above 80°N:

Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) – Click the image to view at source | → DMI Mean Temperature above 80°N (historical files)

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

RSS/AMSU lower troposphere temperature time series for the Northern Polar region are available via the RSS interactive browser. Select Channel TLT (v4.0) and Region North Polar.

→ Open RSS MSU/AMSU Time Series Browser

Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) – Microwave Sounding Units (MSU/AMSU)

Northern Hemisphere Surface Temperatures

NOAA – Physical Sciences Laboratory (PSL) – Click the image to view at source | → NOAA PSL Maps

Arctic Sea Surface Temperature

Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) – HYCOM Consortium for Data-Assimilative Ocean Modeling – Click the image to view at source | → NRL HYCOM Arctic Products

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:

Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) – HYCOM Consortium for Data-Assimilative Ocean Modeling – Click the image to view at source | → NRL HYCOM Arctic Products

Arctic Sea Ice Concentration – 30 Day Animation

Arctic Sea Ice Concentration – 365 Day Animation

Canadian Sea Ice Concentration:

Environment and Climate Change Canada – Canadian Ice Service – → Canadian Ice Service latest conditions

Arctic Sea Ice Extent With Anomaly

National Snow & Ice Data Center (NSIDC) – Click the image to view at source | → NSIDC Arctic Sea Ice News

Arctic Sea Ice Thickness

University of Bremen – Thin Ice Thickness – → University of Bremen Sea Ice

N.B. Per the University of Bremen: Thin sea ice thickness data are calculated only during the freezing season (October to April in the Arctic). During the melting season the procedure does not yield meaningful results.

Real-Time Nowcast/Forecast in Meters:

Arctic Sea Ice Thickness Nowcast – NRL HYCOM

Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) – HYCOM Consortium for Data-Assimilative Ocean Modeling – Click the image to view at source | → NRL HYCOM Arctic Products

Arctic Sea Ice Thickness – 30 Day Animation

Arctic Sea Ice Thickness – 365 Day Animation

Arctic Sea Ice Speed & Drift:

Arctic Sea Ice Speed and Drift – NRL HYCOM

Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) – HYCOM Consortium for Data-Assimilative Ocean Modeling – Click the image to view at source | → NRL HYCOM Arctic Products

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 image to view at source | → DMI Arctic Ice Drift
N.B.: DMI says this is a 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):

Arctic Sea Ice Volume Anomaly – University of Washington PIOMAS

University of Washington – Polar Science Center – PIOMAS Arctic Sea Ice Volume Model – Click the image to view at source | → UW PIOMAS Sea Ice Volume

Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Mass Balance

Images from Polar Portal’s Greenland pages:

Polar Portal – Map showing ice gain/loss anomalies since Sept 1 – Click the image to view full size | → Polar Portal Greenland

Greenland Ice Sheet Daily and Total Ice Gain/Loss – Polar Portal

Polar Portal – Graph of daily and total ice gain/loss since Sept 1 – Click the image to view full size | → Polar Portal Greenland

Arctic Satellite Imagery

NASA WorldView – True Color Arctic Satellite Image – With zoom – NASA GIBS/WorldView

NASA WorldView – Bands 3-6-7 Arctic Satellite Image – With Zoom – NASA

NASA WorldView – Aqua True Color Arctic Satellite Image – With Zoom – NASA

Antarctic Graphs

Antarctic Sea Ice Extent – 15% or Greater:

National Snow & Ice Data Center (NSIDC) – Click the image to view at source | → NSIDC Sea Ice News

JAXA Antarctic Sea Ice Extent – 15% or Greater:

JAXA Antarctic Sea Ice Extent – Current Season

JAXA Antarctic Sea Ice Extent – All Years

JAXA / NIPR – → VISHOP Sea Ice Extent Viewer

JAXA data download (CSV file of Antarctic extent) here

Antarctic Temperature

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

RSS/AMSU lower troposphere temperature time series for the Southern Polar region are available via the RSS interactive browser. Select Channel TLT (v4.0) and Region South Polar.

→ Open RSS MSU/AMSU Time Series Browser

Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) – Microwave Sounding Units (MSU/AMSU)

Antarctic Sea Surface Temperature

The NRL Antarctic Sea Surface Temperature imagery previously linked here has been discontinued. Current Southern Ocean SST data is available from:

→ Naval Research Laboratory Marine Meteorology Division

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:

Antarctic Sea Ice Extent with Standard Deviation – NSIDC

National Snow & Ice Data Center (NSIDC) – Click the image to view at source | → NSIDC Sea Ice News

South Pole Station Webcam

Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station – NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory (GML) | → NOAA GML South Pole Observatory

Source Guide

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

climate4you.com – Ole Humlum – Professor, University of Oslo Department of Geosciences
Home Page – https://www.climate4you.com/
Sea Ice Page – https://www.climate4you.com/SeaIce.htm

moyhu – Nick Stokes
Home Page – https://moyhu.blogspot.com/
Regional Hi-Res SST Movies – https://moyhu.blogspot.com/p/sst-regional-movies-as-described-here-i.html

Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) – HYCOM Consortium for Data-Assimilative Ocean Modeling
NRL Home Page – https://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/
HYCOM Arctic Home Page – https://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/GLBhycomcice1-12/

National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)
Home Page – https://nsidc.org/
Sea Ice Index – https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/
Arctic Sea Ice News & Analysis – https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
Charctic Interactive Graph – https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph/
Northern Hemisphere Sea Ice Extent Data – https://noaadata.apps.nsidc.org/NOAA/G02135/north/daily/data/
Southern Hemisphere Sea Ice Extent Data – https://noaadata.apps.nsidc.org/NOAA/G02135/south/daily/data/

University of Bremen
Home Page – https://www.iup.uni-bremen.de/eng/
Sea Ice Concentration Page – https://seaice.uni-bremen.de/sea-ice-concentration/
Thin Ice Thickness – https://seaice.uni-bremen.de/thin-ice-thickness/

JAXA – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency / National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR)
VISHOP Sea Ice Extent Viewer – https://ads.nipr.ac.jp/vishop/#/extent

NASA – Worldview / GIBS
Arctic Imagery – https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?p=arctic

National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) – National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
Home Page – https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/

National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) – National Weather Service – Environmental Modeling Center
Home Page – https://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/
Sea Ice Analyses Page – https://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/seaice/Analyses.html

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) – National Ice Center
Product Page – https://www.natice.noaa.gov/Main_Products.htm

National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Arctic Program
https://arctic.noaa.gov/

NOAA – Physical Sciences Laboratory (PSL) (formerly ESRL)
Home Page – https://psl.noaa.gov/
Products Page – https://psl.noaa.gov/products/
Climate and Weather Data – https://psl.noaa.gov/data/
Maps Room – https://psl.noaa.gov/map/

Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC) – Arctic Regional Ocean Observing System (Arctic ROOS)
Home Page – https://web.nersc.no/project/arctic-roos/

OSI-SAF – EUMETSAT Ocean and Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility (formerly Norway Met SAF)
Home Page – https://osi-saf.eumetsat.int/
Sea Ice Products – https://osi-saf.eumetsat.int/products/sea-ice

University of Washington – Polar Science Center – PIOMAS Arctic Sea Ice Volume
https://psc.apl.washington.edu/research/projects/arctic-sea-ice-volume-anomaly/

Polar Portal – Greenland Surface Mass Balance
https://polarportal.dk/en/greenland/surface-conditions/

Environment and Climate Change Canada – Canadian Ice Service
https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/ice-forecasts-observations/latest-conditions.html