Alaska Sea Ice Program: Satellite Resource Info

The sea ice along the North Slope fractured today (March 28, 2018), and we were able to catch it happening on our satellite imagery. 

New images will be posted soon.

Past imagery: 

With persistent strong southerly winds through the Bering Sea and southern Chukchi Sea, we have seen significant melting of the sea ice in the past week or so. This is an image of the southern Chukchi Sea where ice has moved northward away from the northern Seward Peninsula.

Very little sea ice remains within navigational waters of Alaskan waters. What does remain is between Harrison Bay and Prudhoe Bay, and it is melting quickly. The main ice edge is approximately 150 nm north of the north coast of Alaska as of this image on July 29th, 2017.

The latest MODIS satellite imagery (from May 19, 2017) shows the sea ice destabilizing off the Wales to Espenberg coast on the northern side of the Seward Peninsula. A lead forming from near Espenberg to Cape Krusenstern can be seen, which could cause further destabilization of the sea ice in this area.

As of April 16th, we are seeing the sea ice breaking up in the Bering Strait region. 

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