• Space/Science
  • GeekSpeak
  • Mysteries of
    the Multiverse
  • Science Fiction
  • The Comestible Zone
  • Off-Topic
  • Community
  • Flame
  • CurrentEvents

Recent posts

Birthright Citizenship RobVG June 29, 2025 3:34 pm (CurrentEvents)

To be blunt, NASA is now dead RL June 27, 2025 11:56 am (Space/Science)

Musk trashes his own AI after it chose a liberal worldview. RobVG June 23, 2025 9:56 am (CurrentEvents)

Psyche keeps its date with an asteroid BuckGalaxy June 22, 2025 5:21 pm (Space/Science)

Just for the record... ER June 22, 2025 8:59 am (CurrentEvents)

The Three Unknowns After the U.S. Strike on Iran BuckGalaxy June 22, 2025 12:58 am (CurrentEvents)

There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy. BuckGalaxy June 22, 2025 12:29 am (Flame)

Not ready for prime time BuckGalaxy June 19, 2025 12:18 pm (Space/Science)

hypocrisy ER June 15, 2025 2:30 pm (Flame)

NSIDC offline? ER June 12, 2025 12:19 pm (Space/Science)

Wouldn't it be nice BuckGalaxy June 11, 2025 3:13 pm (Off-Topic)

Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin BuckGalaxy June 9, 2025 1:35 pm (Off-Topic)

Home » Space/Science

Arctic Ice Report July 27, 2018 10:16 am ER

After a relatively warm winter, a cooler-than-expected spring seemed to point to a lower-than-average, but not particularly ice free Arctic this year. But the arctic is always full of surprises, and now the summer melt is going like gangbusters. Analysts are even talking about maybe another record this year. So far the lowest ice year on record was 2012, when the September minimum dropped to 3.7 million sq km.

Stay tuned to this channel for the July ice extent summary, early in August, and the summer melt summary early in October.

Since we have been making satellite measurements in 1979, the low ice record has been broken in September 1985, 1990, 1995, 2002, 2005, 2007 and 2012. We’re about due for another. The September high ice record has never been broken, it was at its highest point in 1996 and it has never recovered since.

https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_daily_concentration_hires.png

.

https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_iqr_timeseries.png

.

  • Is it just me? by ER 2018-07-27 13:03:23

    Search

    The Control Panel

    • Log in
    • Register