General Information on Ice Charts:
Description of ice analysis chart
National Ice Service Information:
International Ice Charting Working Group (IICWG)
List of National Sea Ice Services
Operational Ice Service Publication and Reports
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Affiliations:
Study Group on WMO Cryosphere Crosscutting Functions: Global Cryosphere Watch (SG-CRYO)
Marine Meteorology and Oceanography Programme (MMOP)
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Documentation:
Technical Regulations, Volume I - General Meteorological Standards and Recommended Practices: WMO 49 [PDF]
Manual on Marine Meteorological Services - Volume I: WMO 558 [PDF]
Sea Ice Nomenclature: WMO 259 [PDF]
Ice Chart Colour Code Standard: WMO/TD-No. 1215 [PDF]
Sea Ice Services of the World: WMO 574 [PDF]
JCOMM, 2012, Electronic Chart Systems Ice Objects Catalogue, version 5.1 (draft). [PDF]
WMO, 2010, SIGRID-3: A vector archive format for sea ice charts, JCOMM-TR-23, WMO/TD-NO.1214. [PDF]
International Maritime Organization (IMO) Documentation:
IMO (2016). Polar Code. International Maritime Organization ISBN 978-92-801-16281 [PDF]
International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), 1974, as amended [PDF]