Animations of sea ice concentration
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The development of sea ice is an important climate indicator. Some related animations of sea ice development in both hemispheres are available here. All corresponding data and figures are also available in die dataportal.
Sea ice concentration maximum
Sea ice concentration minimum
Sea ice concentration monthly mean
Sea ice concentration monthly mean February
Sea ice concentration monthly mean September
Sea ice concentration maximum
Sea ice concentration minimum
Sea ice concentration monthly mean
Sea ice concentration monthly mean February
Sea ice concentration monthly mean September
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- Grosfeld, K.; Treffeisen, R.; Asseng, J.; Bartsch, A.; Bräuer, B.; Fritzsch, B.; Gerdes, R.; Hendricks, S.; Hiller, W.; Heygster, G.; Krumpen, T.; Lemke, P.; Melsheimer, C.; Nicolaus, M.; Ricker, R. and Weigelt, M. (2016), Online sea-ice knowledge and data platform <www.meereisportal.de>, Polarforschung, Bremerhaven, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research & German Society of Polar Research, 85 (2), 143-155, doi:10.2312/polfor.2016.011 (PDF).
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For all sea ice concentration data, please
- include the following phrase into the acknowledgment: Sea ice concentration data from DATE to DATE were obtained from https://www.meereisportal.de (grant: REKLIM-2013-04).
- refer to: Spreen, G.; Kaleschke, L. and Heygster, G. (2008), Sea ice remote sensing using AMSR-E 89 GHz channels J. Geophys. Res.,vol. 113, C02S03, doi:10.1029/2005JC003384.
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