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 of 42 seasons in the satellite record maintained by the NSIDC. It’s …
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Arctic sea ice marginally higher than last year
Third lowest extent for Arctic Sea Ice on the 9th of June, 91.0% of the daily LTA, and marginally higher than it was at the same date in 2019.
The chances of no Arctic sea ice in summer before 2050
My own simplistic approach to the problem of calculating when the Arctic will be totally free of sea ice in summer without the use of a supercomputer and sophisticated climate models, is to extrapolate a linear …
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MOSAiC expedition flushed out of Arctic
It seems to me that although the MOSAiC expedition may end up being a huge success as far as a collaborative scientific mission goes, it missed the most important aspect (to me at least) of reaching …
A quick dip in Arctic sea ice
The better start to the Arctic sea ice extent season didn’t last too long because of a week or so of large daily losses during the second half of March, which look like they seem to …
Arctic Sea Ice – highest since 2012-13
As far as I can see from the SII data that I download from the NSIDC, it looks like the Arctic sea ice season 2019-20 has returned the highest maximum sea ice extent in seven years …
Antarctic Sea Ice : 2019-20
I think we can safely say that the season minimum in the Antarctic has now been passed on the 19th of February, a couple of days earlier than average, with a minimum sea ice extent of …
Highest sea ice extent since 2015
The Arctic sea ice extent on the 11th of February was the highest for that date since 2015. The total had climbed to within two standard deviations of average and was only 3.8% below the 1988-2016 LTA for that date, which is quite remarkable given that it started from the second lowest minimum on record back in September,
Super mild Europe and Russia
Mean temperatures across Russia have continued to be well above average so far this January as they were in December.
Antarctic sea ice extent holding on too
Having said that the sea extent is almost 14% lower than the LTA with a massive gap in the Weddell sea and large hole in the Ross sea.
Antarctic sea ice extent continues to slowly improve
Antarctic sea ice maximum reached on the 30th of September as loose tooth drops out
Arctic sea ice minima – September 17ᵗʰ
Arctic sea ice bottoms out leaving it the second lowest minima since 1979
If you want a story about record low Arctic sea ice then forget it!
The Arctic sea ice has gain proved far more resilient than forecast and has refused to produce a record low minimum in 2019.
Will it slide like in 2012?
The big question is will the Arctic sea extent slide away like it did in the summer of 2012 or take a shallower trajectory?
Arctic sea ice close to historic low for early June
Arctic sea ice extent is second lowest behind 2016 for early June, but 2012 is the year to watch.
Polar sea ice extent since 1990
I have always thought that following sea ice extent using daily SII values from the NSIDC was not a good idea. Even following weekly, monthly or seasonal extremes didn’t seem to simplify the ‘noise’ that you …