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The yearly sea-ice maximum in the Arctic and minimum in the Antarctic occur in the period of February and March. With satellite data processed at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, the status of the sea-ice extrema this spring will be summarised here.

Seasonal minimum of the Antarctic sea ice reached record-low values in February. Especially the Ross Sea experienced very little ice by the end of the summer period.

Last year, we released for the first time a new product mapping the sea-ice type in the Southern Hemisphere. The ice type classification is provided daily in the Antarctic winter period, and March 1st is the first classification of a new winter season.

Recently, we have developed new products at cryo.met.no that show real-time permafrost temperature data from operational monitoring sites in Svalbard and Norway.

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We are proud that our sea ice data were used in the 6th IPCC Assessment Report (AR6) that was released early this August!