Product information

Information about the OSI SAF Sea Ice products developed and produced at the OSI SAF High Latitude Centre is given by following the links below. For information about the intermediate SST and Flux products, follow the links in the left panel. The SST and Radiative Flux products presented at this site are not official OSI SAF products, but intermediate high latitude products that are merged with the low and mid latitude products at Météo France. For access to the official OSISAF products of SST and Radiative Fluxes, please enter http://www.osi-saf.org/. For Product User Manuals and validation results, look under Documentation.

Sea Ice products
Tools for reading products
File name conventions
Product version numbers

Download products

From FTP-server

Our products can be downloaded through our anonymous ftp server on HDF and GRIB format. There is one directory for archived products and one with products from the last 31 days. Follow these links to download the products:

Global Sea Ice products (last 31 days) (ftp://saf.met.no/prod/ice/)
Global Sea Ice products archive (ftp://saf.met.no/archive/ice/)

The products are also available in other formats (NetCDF), through other channels (over EUMETCast and through OPeNDAP-server) and there are other available products (demonstration products, intermediate products, additional products). Go to the Download page for more information.