{"id":5899,"date":"2026-02-09T11:30:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T10:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/j-b-o.de\/sea-ice-is-back-in-the-baltic-sea\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T11:32:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T10:32:33","slug":"sea-ice-is-back-in-the-baltic-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/j-b-o.de\/en\/sea-ice-is-back-in-the-baltic-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea Ice Is Back in the Baltic Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sea ice is not gone from the southern Baltic Sea as many have thought in the recent years. The strong 2025\/2026 winter season shows that multiple offshore wind farm locations can actually be affected by sea ice, as can be seen on daily-published FMI ice charts in comparison with maps of the existing and planed OWFs. This means that ice engineering is an important aspect in the design of offshore wind turbines.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The JBO team has a multi-year experience and proven track record in the design of monopiles and jacket structures against sea ice in the Baltic Sea.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83d\udc49 Feel free to reach Wojciech Popko in case you need support in sea ice loads interacting with wind turbines and offshore substations.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can also download the sea ice data as a PDF here:<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-74ab46e5-0330-4f97-9033-f08a54d73515\" href=\"https:\/\/j-b-o.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ice-data-JBO-Engineering-Group.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ice data JBO Engineering Group<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/j-b-o.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ice-data-JBO-Engineering-Group.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download=\"\" aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-74ab46e5-0330-4f97-9033-f08a54d73515\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1500\" data-id=\"5892\" src=\"https:\/\/j-b-o.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-28.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5892\" srcset=\"https:\/\/j-b-o.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-28.png 1200w, https:\/\/j-b-o.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-28-768x960.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1500\" data-id=\"5894\" src=\"https:\/\/j-b-o.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-19.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5894\" srcset=\"https:\/\/j-b-o.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-19.png 1200w, https:\/\/j-b-o.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-19-768x960.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1500\" data-id=\"5896\" src=\"https:\/\/j-b-o.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/3-15.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5896\" srcset=\"https:\/\/j-b-o.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/3-15.png 1200w, https:\/\/j-b-o.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/3-15-768x960.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sea ice is not gone from the southern Baltic Sea as many have thought in the recent years. The strong 2025\/2026 winter season shows that multiple offshore wind farm locations can actually be affected by sea ice, as can be seen on daily-published FMI ice charts in comparison with maps of the existing and planed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nicht-kategorisiert"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sea Ice Is Back in the Baltic Sea | JBO Engineering Group GmbH<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/j-b-o.de\/en\/sea-ice-is-back-in-the-baltic-sea\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sea Ice Is Back in the Baltic Sea | JBO Engineering Group GmbH\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sea ice is not gone from the southern Baltic Sea as many have thought in the recent years. 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