The sea ice in both the Arctic and Antarctic stands out this year as having ice extents among the top ten lowest on record. In the Arctic, the annual minimum ice extent has just been recorded as the ninth lowest since measurements began more than 40 years ago. In Antarctica, where winter is now over, the annual maximum extent is the seventh lowest on record.
The Norwegian ice service will be leading session 3 of the Arctic Frontiers Conference in late January / early February 2023, “Modelling and monitoring challenges to maritime safety in a changing Arctic.”
We welcome you in Oslo for the IICWG-DA-11 sea-ice workshop 21-22-23 March 2023 ! Find more information at https://iicwg-da-11.met.no.
Scientists from our cryosphere team at MET Norway are participating in the Living Planet Symposium 2022, LPS22, which is among the biggest Earth Observation conferences in the world. See some of our contributions here.
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.
We are proud that our sea ice data were used in the 6th IPCC Assessment Report (AR6) that was released early this August!
The yearly maximum (in the Arctic) and minimum (in the Antarctic) sea-ice extent occurs in February/March. With satellite data processed at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, the status of the sea-ice extrema this spring is summarised.
2020 holds the second-lowest sea-ice extent on record in the Arctic, following the record-low in 2012. Therefore we update our daily Arctic sea-ice extent figure which includes the two recent years with the lowest sea-ice extent as reference curves.
