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Formerly TwitterZack Labe
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#Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 9th lowest on record (JAXA data)
• about 90,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 410,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 820,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 1,370,000 km² below the 1980s mean
Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-extentconcentration/ pic.twitter.com/k5BuUGePU0
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Zack Labe
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This time of year trends in sea ice concentration are confined to the very outer edges of the #Arctic Ocean. Losses of concentration are smallest in March and April.
[Sea ice concentration = fraction of ice-cover (observed by satellite). More information journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/104/9/BAMS-D-23-0079.1.xml] pic.twitter.com/jn46aZfkV5
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National Snow and Ice Data Center
NSIDC
In this photo captured by Ben Holt in 1987, scientist Frank Carsey drills into the sea ice. NOAA@NSIDC holds a collection of sea ice thickness measurements of the Arctic Ocean from 1879, starting with the fated Jeannette Expedition, to 2016. Learn more: nsidc.org/data/g10011/versions/2 pic.twitter.com/KcGPoHQuMn
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National Snow and Ice Data Center
NSIDC
Daily monitoring of the Greenland Ice Sheet is back! Find these two maps on our Ice Sheets Today page: the Greenland daily melt map and the Greenland cumulative melt days map. Analyses about conditions on the Greenland Ice Sheet will return soon as well. nsidc.org/ice-sheets-today pic.twitter.com/Yeq7IsUhFP
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