Fram Strait sea ice export

OSI SAF

Update 22 Aug 2026: OSI SAF sea ice drift data are becoming back available, but there are still missing data for the last few days. So this page may remain outdated for a few more days.

Graphs below calculated from the OSI SAF Low Resolution Sea Ice Drift product (OSI-405).

Definition of Fram Strait (yellow line) and extension to Franz Josef Land (red line):

OSI SAF Fram export graph

OSI SAF Fram-FJL export graph

Arctic sea ice drift

In the images below, the arrows show the direction and relative magnitude of sea ice drift, not the absolute magnitude.

Average sea ice drift in last 10 days:

OSI SAF 10-day Arctic sea ice drift map

Average drift in last 30 days:

OSI SAF 30-day Arctic sea ice drift map

Average drift with custom start and end date (from June 2017 onward):

(normally the image loads within a few seconds after you click the Submit button, but after a period of long inactivity, it may take literally a minute for the backend service to restart and the image to appear. Be patient... ).