I might be jumping the gun a bit here, but it looks to me like Arctic sea ice extent might have bottomed out on the 11th of September in conclusion of the 2019-20 season. Hopefully the …
Arctic sea ice minimum for 2019-20 second lowest on record Read More »
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 lower that at the same time last year, but Arctic sea ice …
There are certain problem years that come along every so often that cause climate scientists to contact the Department of Odd Climate statistics down at the UKMO in Exeter. Global temperatures in 2016 is an annoying …
There are a lot of stories doing the rounds at the moment about the demise of Arctic sea ice in the summer. These predictions come along on a fairly regularly basis – someone, somewhere, hears about …
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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 record for the ninth of August as it a has been for …
Someone’s left the fridge door open for far too long in the Arctic Read More »
This years summer minimum ice extent in the Arctic looks all set to dip below four million square kilometres for only the second time in the satellite record. On the 26th of July it was already …
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The heatwave across Siberia in the last month has had a serious knock on effect on sea ice in the Laptev Sea and hence the total Arctic sea ice extent at the moment (11 July) it …
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 …
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.
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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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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,
Mean temperatures across Russia have continued to be well above average so far this January as they were in December.
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 maximum reached on the 30th of September as loose tooth drops out
Arctic sea ice bottoms out leaving it the second lowest minima since 1979
The Arctic sea ice has gain proved far more resilient than forecast and has refused to produce a record low minimum in 2019.
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 extent is second lowest behind 2016 for early June, but 2012 is the year to watch.
