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Markedly low levels of winter sea ice in the Barents Sea and Bering Sea; Arctic is losing substantial amounts of older sea ice through Fram Strait In Svalbard, meteorologists observe rapid temperature

Large patches of ice-free water could especially be found in Canada’s Arctic coastal waters, and in the Barents and Kara Seas. In the Antarctic, the amount of pack ice was chiefly far below the long-t

Data gap partly remedied: The Sea Ice Portal can once again offer monthly mean-value maps of air temperatures in the Arctic and Antarctic – now on the basis of the global atmospheric reanalysis ERA5,

The Arctic: Warm surface water accelerates sea-ice melting in the Barents Sea The Antarctic: Declining sea-ice cover on the Bellingshausen Sea Research: Polaris 1, Tara Polar Station’s first drift exp

Lack of atmospheric data makes it difficult to draw conclusions on the potential causes of the current sea-ice developments in the Arctic and Antarctic Wet snow and less sea ice in the vicinity of Sva

The sea-ice extent in the polar regions are indicators for the general state of ice development and the effects of climate warming in the high latitudes. For roughly eight years now, we have seen a si

Development in the Arctic The slight upward trend following the Arctic minimum continued in early 2024; although the sea-ice extent was below the mean value for the years 1981 – 2010 at the beginning