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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 …
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
Article courtesy of phys.org
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 …
Polarstern reaches North Pole
Apologies for the late posting about the MOSAiC expedition arrival at the North Pole. I had given up on the Polarstern ever reaching the …
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 …
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 …
MOSAiC expedition comes to an abrupt end
The MOSAiC expedition has come to rather an abrupt end as they steamed south out of the pack ice towards Svalbard. They seem to …
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 …
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Coronavirus and the MOSAiC expedition
In my last post about the MOSAiC expedition I thought that it might be cut short because the ice pack they were locked into …
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, …
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 …
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 …
MOSAiC misses the Pole
They are close, but the drift in the Arctic Ocean and the current weather conditions looks likely to take them southward towards Spitsbergen.