Research On The Application Of Sea Ice Information Navigating In The Arctic Northwest Route

Arctic Ocean is the culmination of Europe, Asia and North America. The Arctic Route is the shortcut throughout Europe, North America and East Asia when go in for maritime transport. Easy navigation, resource development and strategic position will make the Arctic Route become a major part of the international shipping course. The integration of the world economy is becoming faster and faster, shipping industry will take a major position in the international trade. In recent years, as the global climate is becoming warmer year by year, the temperature of Arctic is rising up, ice is melting down, the scope of ice is becoming narrow down, and the opening of the Arctic Route will be possible. Sea ice in the Arctic is one of the main factors that influence the safe voyage and the opening of the Arctic Route. When sailing in the Arctic Route, it appears very important to the officer to master the ice information throughout the route.In order to make the officers get ice information more quickly and effectively after the Arctic Route opens, and make it more security when they sailing in the Northwest Route, this paper firstly makes a detail introduction of the Arctic Northwest Route according to the existing data and related research results, and analyzes the characteristics of the 7 concrete Northwest Routes and the general situation of the sea area along the Route. By collecting and organizing the research results that experts in China and abroad had made about the changing of Arctic sea ice along the Northwest Route, given the overall change trend about the Arctic sea ice.Secondly, by tracking, researching and screening the main source of ice information along the Northwest Route on the internet, this paper gives several main websites such as Canada Ice Service, National Data Center and IPY Ice Logistics Portal, and providing the method of identification of the Egg Code in the graph to understand the ice information along the Arctic Northwest Route that online.Finally, this paper makes comprehensive analysis and comparison about the websites that can provide ice information, and makes Canadian Ice Service as the most important part of this paper’s research. Based on this, a method of application of the available sea ice information on net was provided. Simulation analysis shows the method and general flow chart of how officers to use the sea ice information of Canadian Ice Service to know the sea ice condition along the Arctic Northwest Route.This study can make the officers to acquire sea ice information on net quickly and effectively so as to achieve the purpose of guarantee the safety navigation in the Arctic Northwest Route.