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The Arctic: Warm air and ocean temperatures delayed the formation of new sea ice, particularly off the northeast coast of Canada. There were substantial temperature fluctuations on Spitsbergen in Dece

The Arctic: In November, there was unusually little sea ice in the Barents Sea, western Kara Sea, Hudson Bay and, to the west of Greenland extending high into the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Atmosphe

Similarities and differences between ice regimes become increasingly apparent Multi-year ice regimes have a good chance of surviving the melting season Studies on Arctic amplification are a key elemen

Based on initial observations, those floes studied particularly melted on the underside In the Antarctic, satellites detected substantially less new sea ice than expected in July News from the scienti

Successful flyover with research plane Polar 6 Substantial melting in regime 1 in the ice-edge zone Oceanographic programme records the regimes on different scales Flyover with the IceBird plane Polar

The Arctic: Pronounced high- and low-pressure systems intensified the Beaufort Gyre and accelerated sea-ice export in Fram Strait. In the Laptev Sea, the combination of these factors led to an early b

The Arctic: Lowest February sea-ice extent since the beginning of satellite observations New study: Even limited global warming will fundamentally transform the ice landscapes of the Arctic The Antarc

On 1 January 2024, the sea-ice extent in the Arctic was 12.54 million square kilometres – just 70,000 square kilometres more than on the last day of December in 2016. New AWI study: The more the perce

The Polarstern expedition CONTRASTS (PS149) will delve into the causes and effects of sea-ice retreat in the Arctic Ocean Field work will focus on the different melting behaviours of different types o

The Arctic: Warm sea surface temperatures and weak winds partly explain the low sea-ice extent at winter’s end. ESA sea-ice experiment in northern Canada: Polar 6 and other research aircraft will dire