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 …
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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 …
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 MOSAiC expedition has come to rather an abrupt end as they steamed south out of the pack ice towards Svalbard. They seem to be putting a good spin on things, but overall I think it …
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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In my last post about the MOSAiC expedition I thought that it might be cut short because the ice pack they were locked into in the Arctic north of Svalbard might become unstable and break up, …
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 …
They are close, but the drift in the Arctic Ocean and the current weather conditions looks likely to take them southward towards Spitsbergen.
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,
I wonder if they’ll be any sudden incursion of mild air from the south as has happened in previous years?
It’s early days but Is the Polar Stern heading in the wrong direction?
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?
What’s going on with the temperature at Svalbard if that’s not a silly question?
Arctic sea ice extent is second lowest behind 2016 for early June, but 2012 is the year to watch.
