Both Arctic and Antarctic sea ice doing well
This might come as a bit of a surprise to some of you but rather surprisingly, in this ever warming world of ours, both …
Sea Ice
What’s happening with sea ice extent?
Most people already know full well about the decline of sea ice extent in the Arctic. I’m as guilty of many others who constantly …
Surge in Antarctic Sea Ice continues
The surge in Antarctic sea ice that occurred in the last week of February has continued, and at the start of May the sea …
The Polar Portal
If you are at all interested in the state of the sea ice in the Arctic or the Greenland ice cap for that matter …
Arctic Sea Ice stages late fight back
Arctic sea ice has staged something of a late fight back from the dire position it was in just two weeks ago on the …
Sudden decline in Arctic Sea Ice
Arctic sea ice extent had been doing pretty well this winter tracking last year, but on the 16th of February the extent suddenly dropped …
11 Feb 2021 – Arctic sea ice extent
The NSIDC reckon that Arctic sea ice extent for January was the sixth smallest on record and 6.5% below the long term average. Well …
11 Feb 2021 – Antarctic sea ice extent
The NSIDC tweeted today that the Antarctic sea ice extent in January 2020 had tied with January 2007 as the 13th smallest on record. …
Sea ice in Shetland
Originally tweeted by BBC Scotland News (@BBCScotlandNews) on 29 January 2021. A boat has been captured in beautiful drone footage creating a channel through …
Meanwhile down in the Antarctic….
The half term report for Antarctic sea ice shows that the estimated extent to be at 4.191 million square kilometres, that’s 94.7% of the …
Arctic sea ice still holding up
The latest Arctic sea ice estimates from the NSIDC show that current levels, although at only 93.8% of the LTA, are holding up reasonably …
Arctic sea ice fights back
Arctic sea ice extents on the 24th of December were the seventh lowest on record in the NSIDC satellite series which started in 1978, …
Oceanographers have an explanation for the Arctic’s puzzling ocean turbulence
DECEMBER 15, 2020 Oceanographers have an explanation for the Arctic’s puzzling ocean turbulence by Jennifer Chu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Eddies are often seen as …
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Grim news as the Arctic defrost accelerates into the autumn
Temperature anomalies so far this November across the Arctic Ocean and the north of Russia are as high as 17°C above the LTA in …
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Arctic sea ice at record low levels
The latest Arctic sea ice extent are at historic lows levels for late October, which reflects the toll the warming from this years record …
Antarctic sea ice extent highest since 2014
The southern Ocean may be melting Antarctic glaciers from below but not so much the sea ice on top I reckon the maximum sea …
Arctic sea ice minimum for 2019-20 second lowest on record
I might be jumping the gun a bit here, but it looks to me like Arctic sea ice extent might have bottomed out on …
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Arctic sea ice not keeping to the script
The 2019-20 Arctic sea ice extent on the 29th of August was the second lowest on record. It was significantly 0.284 million square kilometers …
Problem years in the global warming debate
There are certain problem years that come along every so often that cause climate scientists to contact the Department of Odd Climate statistics down …
More dire predictions about how Arctic sea ice in summer will be gone by 2035
There are a lot of stories doing the rounds at the moment about the demise of Arctic sea ice in the summer. These predictions …
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Someone’s left the fridge door open for far too long in the Arctic
I downloaded the latest sea ice extent data from the NSIDC this evening fully expecting to find the 2019-20 season remained the lowest on …
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Arctic sea ice extent 2019-20 set to challenge record minimum of 2011-12
This years summer minimum ice extent in the Arctic looks all set to dip below four million square kilometres for only the second time …
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11 July: Arctic sea ice record low
The heatwave across Siberia in the last month has had a serious knock on effect on sea ice in the Laptev Sea and hence …
Antarctic sea ice doing well
Antarctic sea ice extent this year, as of the 22nd of June, stands at around 98.8% of the 1981-2010 LTA, and 24th highest out …