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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 different ice regimes in the Arctic in summer were successfully characterised and their melting was described. This summer, there was a particularly large amount of open water in the North Atlanti

Significant melting and breakup of the ice pack in regime 1 in the marginal ice zone Rain accelerates ice melting Ecological studies highlight the connection to physical ice and ocean condition Substa

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

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

Having now reached Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Tara Polar Station will embark on its first expedition to the Arctic sea ice on 1 July RV Polarstern breaks through the sea ice for Tara Polar Station Both e

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

During an Arctic reconnaissance flight on 14 June 2021, polar researchers made an unusual discovery: trapped in the white pack ice of Fram Strait, they found an iceberg covered with a layer of black r