These products are provided by The Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) under Polar View project supported by ESA. BIM pages are showing only combination of ice thickness charts, where new and older SAR images are used. Thus the data can be 0-3 days old. Please check detailed information at ice.fmi.fi/polarview

An ice thickness chart is produced after a satellite-borne SAR image has been received, using the latest available routine ice chart as an input. The ice field boundaries are refined, and the thinnest and the thickest ice areas inside each ice chart segment are identified based on the SAR signal statistics. The resulting thickness chart is colour coded according to navigation restrictions based on ice thickness. The spatial accuracy of the resulting ice thickness charts is 500 meters. Currently, the ice thickness charts are based on the Radarsat-1 ScanSAR Wide Mode and Envisat ASAR Wide Swath images.

These products are provided by The Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) under Polar View project supported by ESA. BIM pages are showing only ice drift and ice concentration over +6, +12, +24 and +45h time steps. Please check forecasts in 3h time steps and over 6 parameters in http://ice.fmi.fi/polarview ‍

Ice Forecasts are published daily around 7:00 UTC. The forecasts cover the area of the northern Baltic Sea with spatial resolution of one nautical mile, and range over two days in three-hour steps. For the 54th forecast the model is forced with atmospheric model data from HIRLAM.

Ice parameters are based on products made from satellite data. The quality of the forecasts will be evaluated during the project perioid, and improvements will be made in the meantime.