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Ice

   
 
 

The Ice Service - committed to the safety and ease
of navigation for over 100 years now

Shuga with brash ice and ice cakes

    

     · provides customer oriented, competent service
     · offers latest data and advice
     · provides information on local, regional, and global scales

  Our products are
    · ice reports, ice charts, and station reports using the Baltic Sea Ice Code
    · information on icebreakers and restrictions to navigation
    · satellite images and derived thematic maps

 Our ice archive and databases contain all required data for
    · expert opinions on sea ice, navigational planning, and ice climatology

 We are co-operating closely with
   ·  the governmental Ice Services of the northern hemisphere
   ·  the international committees BSIM and IICWG
   ·  other related institutions  

First ice formation: strips of grease ice and slush
Up to 10 cm thick elastic crust of ice with finger rafting
Boundary of Nilas (< 10 cm) and grey ice (thickness 10-15 cm) with rafting

 Order the EISBERICHT - Amtsblatt des BSH, 83th volume
- season 2009 /10 -
 which is indispensable for planning and performing ice navigation
 in the Baltic and North Seas.

Broken and partly rafted grey ice (10-15 cm) with ship track Ridged ice with small floes of level grey-white ice (15-30 cm) Ridge in level grey-white ice (15-30 cm) Swedish icebreaker YMER in ridged thin white ice (30-70 cm) German icebreaking multi-purpose vessel NEUWERK in 50-70 cm thick fast ice

 

 

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If you have any additional questions, please e-mail Dr. Jürgen Holfort or phone +49 381 4563 - 782

Links


External links:
International Ice Charting Working Group

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