Sea-Ice & SST Viewer

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What is the Sea-Ice & SST Viewer?

The Sea-Ice Viewer visualises the sea-ice data covering the northern polar region. Three presentations are available: sea-ice concentration, sea-ice type (old or new), and sea-ice edges (open or closely packed).

What data does it read?

OSI-SAF data available from the EUMETCast system (as used for Meteosat-8 reception) or data FTPed from the Internet (ftp://saf.met.no/prod/ice/). Because the sea-ice data is only sent once per day, between 04:00 and 04:30 UTC, unless you run your system 24 hours per day you may miss the data. For this reason, you may need the FTP service from Norway. If you want to automate the FTP downloads, please contact me for a suitable command-file.

What do the results look like?

screen-shot from the Sea-Ice Viewer

Can I register and what do I get?

Whilst the free version of the program will provide basic viewing of the sea-ice concentration and sea-surface temperature data, you get the following extras with registration:

display of the sea-ice type data
display of the sea-ice edge data
display of country boundaries and gridlines
display of southern hemisphere data
fast access to the most recent data
the ability to animate the sea-ice data
the ability to save the results
the ability to run the program from the command-line
the ability to automate the program

Further developments will be concentrated on the registered version.

Please see the read-me file which comes with the program for more information about command-line operation and automating the registered version of the program.

Download the Sea-Ice & SST Viewer

V1.3.0	Honour -SAVE:<folder-name> for saving animations in batch mode, accept revised data format (since 2005-02-28-1200), add option to save text and overlay with images.
V1.3.2	Add support for southern- and northern-hemisphere polar data, add option to set where interactive animations are saved (-SAVE continues to control this in batch mode), shrink the larger animations to fit when viewing.
V1.3.4	Substantial speed increase for non-compressed data, enhance the Open, Latest for separate NH/SH data, new -LATEST-NORTH and -LATEST-SOUTH first parameters.

Download the Sea-Ice & SST Viewer V1.3.4 (163,117 bytes, 2007 Jul 28)
Register the Sea-Ice & SST Viewer - please help support continued development
If you don't already have my runtime Library Bundle, please download and install it (do this if you get messages about missing DLLs when trying to run the program).
Sample Command-line FTP script and program to automate data retrieval - sea-ice-ftp.zip