Moscow State University
Iceman.kz and Faculty of geography at Moscow State University conduct research combining their effort to increase knowledge of sea ice deformation processes and their effect on seabed in the Caspian Sea.
Stamukhi Research Collaboration
Faculty of Geography of Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), Russia and Iceman.kz, Kazakhstan have enaged in a research project to study study ice rubble features (ridges and stamukhi) and their impact on seabed. There are two major topics that are covered in the scope of this cooperation: Seabed – rubble fields interaction; Effects of climate…
Stamukhi Database Update
Just days after the ice season is finished in the Caspian we are glad to publish updated database on stamukhi including this season (2019-2020) and reanalysis for 2013-2014. Extremely mild season resulted in stamukhi formation mainly along the Eastern and Northern precoastal zones with rare obsjects in deeper than 3 m (-31 m BD) waters.…
2019-2020 Ice Season Closure
Ice Is Gone 2019-2020 ice season is now closed Once again the past winter set another record to be the lowest by ice cover development season in the Caspian. It is the seocnd warmest season i judged by FDD. The was one that was warmer in 2015-2016. However, freeze-up was a lot later and extreme…
Is this the end of 2019-2020 Ice Season in the Caspian?
It is the beginning of February and there is almost no sea ice in the Caspian sea and we observe anamalously low ice volume that was generated to the moment. The maximum volume reached this season is 4.3 cubic km. This is a very small number compared to 19.2 that was observed in 2017-2018 and…
Witteven+Bos
Witteven+Bos is one of our customers on provision of consulting services in regards of ice behavior in the Caspian sea. Our input was used in parts to provide Basis of Design for their offshore engineering projects.
Total E&P Recherche Developpment
Total is our prime Client for our abroad activities outside Kazakhstan. One of the major projects conducted for them was analysis of ice drift in the Ob Estuary and Kara Sea.
NIPIneftegas JSC
NIPIneftegas JSC is our strategic Partner on collaboration in complex large scale operations. Iceman.kz provided significant input to NIPI’s operations with data handling and processing custom built software solutions to handle their ongoing operations.
Daily Nowcast Analysis
Being combination of direct observation for the date short-term hindcast and forecast in reference to the date when observation is compiled Nowcast can be defined as best known information in the region for that particular day when it was compiled. This dataset is an enhanced ice egg chart of the day summarizing all the best…
Warm up
Cold period in November has resulted in ice formation along all the shores of the Northern Caspian Sea. Great Sentinel-2 from 7 December reviled the picture of ice conditions in the area after warming period in the beginning of December. Looking at several locations we can observe that ice is melting in the area –…