An update of the mean absolute ocean dynamic topography (MADT) and its anomaly (MSLA) is available. This update has weekly temporal resolution and the covered time period is until April 2012. Please take a look at...
Most of the coastal polynyas (openings in the otherwise thick and compact sea ice cover) around Antarctica are known as "ice factories" and produce a considerable amount of new ice. This new ice formation is often...
ICDC started a project to monitor the temperature and the heat content of the upper ocean.
Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) is an important parameter of the global hydrological cycle. ICDC now offers a new daily SWE data set with 25 km grid resolution generated in the ESA GlobSnow project. In this new SWE data set...
This year's Arctic sea ice extent as dropped to a new minimum of 3.4 million square kilometers. According to the NSIDC this is 18% less than the last unprecedented minimum in 2007 and about 49% less than the 1979-2000 average...
