Following is a list of other sources of sea ice data and information. If there are any other resources you would like to see linked here, please contact NSIDC User Services.
Source |
Products |
| ACSYS Historical Ice Chart Archive |
Historical sea ice observations in the Arctic region between 30°W and 70°, dated 1553 to December 2002. |
| Andrew Watkins' (University of Melbourne) sea ice page |
Graphics of monthly Antarctic sea ice concentration; links to other sea ice resources |
| Canadian Ice Service |
Historical ice data, including microfilm charts, digital data, aircraft and satellite photography, radar imagery; real-time and climatological ice information, and field services |
| Danish Center for Remote Sensing |
Near real-time SSM/I F-13 and F-14 SSM/I, Quikscat, and AVHRR sea ice data |
| Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency of Germay |
Polar Sea Ice Concentration and Extent: near real-time and monthly charts since 1978
(generated from data provided by NSIDC) |
| Fink, T.: Comparison of passive microwave radiometer algorithms... |
Online document comparing passive microwave radiometer
algorithms for estimating sea ice parameters |
| Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC) OTIS Model |
Sea surface temperatures and real-time Arctic and Antarctic ice concentrations |
| French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea |
Backscatter maps from scatterometry data |
| Global Digital Sea Ice Bank |
Large collection of sea ice data and charts |
| International Ice Patrol |
Iceberg tracking and ice limits for the Arctic |
Lars Kaleschke's Seaice.de Web page
(Institute of Environmental
Physics at the University of Bremen) |
Near real-time 12.5 km resolution sea ice concentration maps calculated from the ARTIST Sea Ice (ASI) algorithm |
| Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center |
Near real-time SAR-based ice information of ice types and map leads, polynyas, shear zones, land-fast ice, drifting ice, location of ice edges, climate and ocean modeling |
| National Ice Center |
Digital sea ice charts for the eastern and western Arctic and Antarctica |
| National Weather Service Forecast Office |
Daily sea surface temperature and sea ice analysis |
| Physical Oceanography DAAC at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
Global QuikSCAT sigma-0 sea ice browse images produced by David Long at Brigham Young University |
| United States Geological Survey (USGS) |
Monthly polar average sea ice concentration (ftp access) |
| United States Geological Survey (USGS) |
Query tool for sea ice ice concentration data |
| University of Washington Polar Science Center |
Oceanographic data, IABP buoy data, POLES, SHEBA, TOVS, PHC, and SCICEX data |
