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If you are at all interested in the state of the sea ice in the Arctic or the Greenland ice cap for that matter …
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 has staged something of a late fight back from the dire position it was in just two weeks ago on the …
Arctic sea ice extent had been doing pretty well this winter tracking last year, but on the 16th of February the extent suddenly dropped …
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 …
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 extents on the 24th of December were the seventh lowest on record in the NSIDC satellite series which started in 1978, …
Article courtesy of phys.org
I might be jumping the gun a bit here, but it looks to me like Arctic sea ice extent might have bottomed out on …
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 …
Apologies for the late posting about the MOSAiC expedition arrival at the North Pole. I had given up on the Polarstern ever reaching the …
There are certain problem years that come along every so often that cause climate scientists to contact the Department of Odd Climate statistics down …
There are a lot of stories doing the rounds at the moment about the demise of Arctic sea ice in the summer. These predictions …
More dire predictions about how Arctic sea ice in summer will be gone by 2035 Read More »
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 …
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 …
Arctic sea ice extent 2019-20 set to challenge record minimum of 2011-12 Read More »
The heatwave across Siberia in the last month has had a serious knock on effect on sea ice in the Laptev Sea and hence …
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 MOSAiC expedition has come to rather an abrupt end as they steamed south out of the pack ice towards Svalbard. They seem to …
My own simplistic approach to the problem of calculating when the Arctic will be totally free of sea ice in summer without the use …
The chances of no Arctic sea ice in summer before 2050 Read More »
In my last post about the MOSAiC expedition I thought that it might be cut short because the ice pack they were locked into …
It seems to me that although the MOSAiC expedition may end up being a huge success as far as a collaborative scientific mission goes, …
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 …
As far as I can see from the SII data that I download from the NSIDC, it looks like the Arctic sea ice season …
They are close, but the drift in the Arctic Ocean and the current weather conditions looks likely to take them southward towards Spitsbergen.
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