Image of the Week: Global sea ice - 2024

Watching our Earth from space

This week’s image features global sea ice extent in August 2024. The image is taken from an animation of a year of sea ice using data from EUMETSAT’s OSI SAF.

Last Updated

01 April 2026

Published on

30 March 2026

The image uses the global sea ice concentration (AMSR-2) product, which is produced by the EUMETSAT Ocean and Sea Ice SAF (OSI SAF).

The OSI SAF provides comprehensive information on the ocean-atmosphere interface.

The full visualisation of a year of Antarctic and Arctic sea ice in 2024 is available below:

What are SAFs?

Using specialist expertise from the EUMETSAT member states, satellite application facilities (SAFs) are dedicated centres of excellence for processing satellite data.

They form an integral part of the distributed EUMETSAT Application Ground Segment. SAFs develop, generate and distribute operational satellite products including long-term data record generation.

More info

Access sea ice data in EUMETSAT’s User Portal

Visualise daily Arctic sea ice extent

WMO State of the Climate Report 2025

State of the Arctic https://climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/2024/arctic-ocean

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