The Arctic sea ice extent reached its annual minimum late in the season: on September 19th and again four days later. Tied only with 1997, this is the latest day of occurrence of the summer minimum since the start of the satellite record.

While the weather in Denmark has been unusually warm, dry and sunny since the start of May, things have been very different in Greenland where the same period can mostly be described as cold and in many place quite wet.

Sæsonens vigtigste resultater for Grønlands indlandsis og den arktiske havis opsummeres nu i en sæsonrapport på den danske Polar Portal

As the surface mass budget (SMB) year ends, it’s time for our now traditional look-back at the season since the 1st September 2016.

An interruption in normal Polar Portal service this week has brought unexpected benefits for DMI’s daily surface mass balance data from Greenland… upgrading to the cutting edge HARMONIE-AROME modelling system.