Near Real Time Information

• Latest Ice Page at the Danish Center for Remote Sensing Marvellous!
• MODIS images Very useful for cloud free conditions!
• NOAA NESDIS QuikScat QuikScat detects thin and flooded ice which is missed by SSM/I and AMSR
• Ocean Modeling Branch of the Environmental Modeling Center
• Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI)
• Eisdienst des Bundesamtes für Seeschiffahrt und Hydrographie
• Wetterzentrale
• Finnish Ice Service
• Baltic Sea Ice Services
• National Ice Center - Polar Science Team

Documentation

• The Discovery of Global Warming Excellent text!
• Passive Microwaves: SSM/I

Institutes, Universities, Data Centers and Organizations

• Institute of Environmental Physics at the University of Bremen
  • Group Physical Analysis of Satellite Images
  • The Satellite Microwave Atmospheric Sounding Group
• Alfred Wegener Institute Foundation for Polar and Marine Research
• Institute of Oceanography at the University of Hamburg
• Institute of Marine Research at the University of Kiel
• Institut für Meteorologie der Freien Universität Berlin
• CERSAT
• The National Snow and Ice Data Center
• Global Hydrology Resource Center
• The Australian Antarctic Division
• The Arctic Council
• The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (ARCUS)
• Arctic Logistics Information and Support
• NOAA Satellite Active Archive
• CLIVAR
• JPL Polar Remote Sensing Group
• Environment Canada

Projects

• ESA, Projektbüro Radar Altimeter: CryoSat
• ICEMON
• The Scatterometer Climate Record Pathfinder Project
• Climateprediction.net Try this!
• ARTIST (Arctic Radiation and Turbulence Interaction STudy)
• Sea ice data for ARTIST participants
• SEA LION (SEa ice in the Antarctic LInked with OceaN-atmosphere forcing)
• SIMA Satellite IMage Analysis
• The ICE ROUTES Project
• RADARSAT GEOPHYSICAL PROCESSOR SYSTEM (RGPS)
• SHEBA
• SICA Historical Ice Charts, Reconstruction of the historical Ice Edge development
• Global Digital Sea Ice Data Bank

WebCams

• NOAA North Pole NetCam
• Store Norske - Longyearbyen and Svea
• Zeppelin Station - Ny Ålesund

Miscellaneous

• Arved Fuchs
• Interactive Arctic Environmental Atlas
• Thomas Sävert's Naturgewalten
• The Met Research Flight to Norway
• Wikipedia Sea Ice
• Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Antarctica
• GLOBAL WARMING: Early Warning Signs
• GERMANWATCH
• TheIce.org (Discussion Board)
• Robert Grumbine: Science FAQs, Books, Weather and Science Links
• Hauke Trinks: Origin of life in sea ice

Software

• GMT - The Generic Mapping Tools
• Free GIS Software and Free Geo-Data
• Perl
• Python