Antarctic Sea Ice Info..

Archived from National Centres for Environmental Prediction (NCEP): Ocean Modelling Branch

For those with fast links (ie they're large files - ~400k) and Netscape 2.0 or better, here are the monthly loops in gif89a animation format.

Feb 96 .. Mar 96 .. Apr 96 .. May 96 .. Jun 96 .. Jul 96 .. Aug 96 .. Sep 96 .. Oct 96 .. Nov 96 .. Dec 96 .. Jan 97 .. Feb 97 .. Mar 97 .. Apr 97 .. May 97 .. June 97 .. July 97 .. Aug 97 .. Sep 97 .. Oct 97 .. Nov 97 .. Dec 97 .. Jan 98 .. Feb 98 .. Mar 98 .. Apr 98 .. May 98 .. Jun 98 .. Jul 98 .. Aug 98 .. Sep 98 .. Oct 98 .. Nov 98 .. Dec 98 .. Jan 99 .. Feb 99 .. Mar 99 .. Apr 99 .. May 99 .. Jun 99 .. Jul 99 .. Aug 99 .. Sep 99 .. Oct 99 .. Nov 99 .. Dec 99 .. Jan 00 .. Feb 00 .. Mar 00 .. Apr 00 .. May 00 .. Jun 00 .. Jul 00 .. Aug 00 .. Sep 00 .. Oct 00 .. Nov 00 .. Dec 00 .. Jan 01 .. Feb 01 .. Mar 01 .. Apr 01 .. May 01 .. Jun 01 .. Jul 01 .. Aug 01 .. Sep 01 .. Oct 01 .. Nov 01 .. Dec 01 .. Jan 02 .. Feb 02 .. Mar 02 .. Apr 02 .. May 02 .. Jun 02 .. Jul 02 .. Aug 02 .. Sep 02 .. Oct 02 .. Nov 02 .. Dec 02 .. Jan 03 .. Feb 03 .. Mar 03 .. Apr 03 ..

ANNUAL LOOPS
First year:Feb96 to Jan97 (4.6meg) ... 1997 .. 1998 .. 1999 .. 2000 .. 2001 .. 2002 ..

And Now...

From the newly released SMMR-SSMI combined dataset for 1978-1996

1978 .. 1979 .. 1980 .. 1981 .. 1982 .. 1983 .. 1984 .. 1985 .. 1986 .. 1987 .. 1988 .. 1989 .. 1990 .. 1991 .. 1992 .. 1993 .. 1994 .. 1995 .. 1996 .. For 1997, see the end of the listing above.

Other Sea Ice stuff..

• Regional Scale Daily Analyses from the National Ice Centre To help with understanding these images, have a look at the Egg Codes first..
• General Antarctic Information - links to Antarctic Research Organisations
• WLEX95 -- My latest Antarctic trip... (featured on the ASA and the Discovery Online pages..)
• NCEP Sea Ice page
• National Snow and Ice Data Center, (NSIDC) otherwise known as the World Data Center-A: Glaciology.
• NSIDC seaice page
• The Alaska SAR Facility
• Sea Surface Temperatures - near real time
• SIR-C/X-SAR - SAR images, including some sea ice - and a spectacular Weddell Sea - sea ice image.
• SSM/I,AVHHR,TOVS,AARI Data - including the latest archived DMSP SSM/I Sea Ice concentration daily data and its reference manual. See also the F11 - F13 intercomparison and the SMMR documentation and *NOW*, the combined re-analysis of the SMMR-SSMI data.
• Danish Centre for Remote Sensing - work on the remote sensing of sea ice, both active and passive
• Everything you ever wanted to know about ICE but were afraid to ask! - a modestly titled piece! But worth a look for the uninitiated.
• Arctic Sea Ice melt and climate change - some comments by Ola Johannessen - lead author of the semi-controversial Nature (1995) paper.
• Sea Ice monitoring by Satellites - Scandanavian co-operative project
• Uni of Washington Polar Science Center -air/sea/ice interaction
• Monthly average sea ice concentration - U.S Geological survey
• Sea Level, Ice and Greenhouses Bob Grumbines original sea level FAQ
• An Introduction to the NOAA-NASA SSM/I Pathfinder Sea Ice Concentration Data Sets
• The Finnish Ice Service... the leading ice service in Europe, so says Jouni Vainio!
• Greenpeace's Comments on ice and climate change - their comments on "Antarctic hrinking sea ice" in particular are disturbing in only their "half-truthness". I have agreed to re-write this for them. Update:Greenpeace have continually stalled at popping in my re-write. Latest update: They have placed my comments on their bulletin board . Please make a comment if you think my piece is biased in any way.
• Return to my home page

Andrew B Watkins awatkins@earthsci.unimelb.edu.au

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