On this website you find sea ice datasets from satellite remote sensing observations produced at the University of Bremen. All datasets are research products provided without liability.

For more datasets, and in-depth information about sea ice and polar climate have a look at meereisportal.de.

2017 Arctic Sea Ice Minimum

The 2017 sea ice minimum extent was reached on 2017-09-05. Sea ice extent is now increasing again.

Map	Time Series	Minimum & Maximum

September is the month when in the Arctic the sea ice area reaches its minimum. The map and time series show a comparison of current ice conditions to previous years.

Daily AMSR2 Sea ice concentrations

Arctic	Antarctic

Daily SMOS thin sea ice thickness

Antarctic