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...
Arctic
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.
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,
Windy Pole
I wonder if they’ll be any sudden incursion of mild air from the south as has happened in previous years?
Let’s hope the Polarstern is heading in the right direction!
It’s early days but Is the Polar Stern heading in the wrong direction?
