POLARROUTE blog.
Notes on Arctic routes, sea-ice data, IMO POLARIS and shipping decarbonisation.
Arctic routes
Arctic route, comparing distance, fuel and CO2 with Suez on the same basis
Whether the Arctic route beats Suez only becomes clear when the same ship, departure date and method are put side by side.…
Arctic routes
POLARIS, why the same ice means different risk for each ice class
IMO POLARIS combines ice type, concentration and a ship’s ice class into one risk index. How it is calculated, the operating limits…
Sea-ice data
Sea-ice thickness, estimating it from satellite concentration and freezing degree days
Satellites show daily how much of the sea is covered by ice, but not how thick it is. How thickness is estimated…
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