Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Sea Ice Resources

Arctic sea ice is at record low levels now, with weeks remaining in the melt season.  Below are some sites where ice levels are tracked.

The best source of news and analysis probably is Neven's Arctic Sea Ice blog.

A page with gobs and gobs of graphs and maps is here.

The Cryosphere Today has good daily maps and a sea ice area plot.  Here is yesterday's map.






Sea ice extent is defined as where ice covers at least 15% of the sea surface.  daily values are available from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).

This is today's:





Enjoy.

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