MASIE April 26 2014 – Arctic Ice Extent By Region As of Day 115

This Arctic Sea Ice dataset frm MASIE only has 28 days of data. I leave out the NH total otherwise the all of the other lines would look kind of flat.

Earlier today I posted my sea ice update and noted that ice loss in the Arctic had been almost flat for a week (compared to last year).

MASIE totals are not identical to NSIDC totals. Its the trend that is worth looking at.

This is the gain/loss from day 88 to day 115. Negative = loss. Sorted with biggest loser in last 7 days at top. Northern_Hemisphere is the grand total.

Region Start End Last 28 Days Last 14 Last 7
Northern_Hemisphere 14,805,115 13,984,885 -820,230 -509,465 -121,570
Bering_Sea 697,324 479,375 -217,949 -173,774 -68,905
Greenland_Sea 603,416 639,494 36,078 20,265 -32,575
Sea_of_Okhotsk 853,240 398,045 -455,195 -162,679 -18,897
Baffin_Bay_Gulf_of_St._Lawrence 1,688,530 1,515,185 -173,346 -112,258 -14,610
Baltic_Sea 15,337 8,172 -7,165 -7,566 -1,958
Beaufort_Sea 1,070,445 1,070,445 0 0 0
Chukchi_Sea 966,006 966,006 0 0 0
East_Siberian_Sea 1,087,137 1,087,137 0 0 0
Laptev_Sea 897,845 897,845 0 0 0
Kara_Sea 933,859 935,023 1,164 0 0
Canadian_Archipelago 853,214 853,214 0 0 0
Hudson_Bay 1,260,903 1,260,903 0 0 0
Central_Arctic 3,221,921 3,248,013 26,092 452 0
Yellow_Sea 0 0 0 0 0
Barents_Sea 645,917 623,822 -22,096 -71,839 15,375

The flat lines at the bottom are regions that have melted and are now  ice free. The completely flat lines elsewhere indicate no melting at all yet. The changing lines indicate melting regions.

The purple line near the top is the “Central Arctic “.  You can barely notice it rose from 3221921 on day 88 to 3248013 on day 115.

(I wish I had historical MASIE data) Click for bigger.

MASIE Arctic Ice Extent as of 2014115

 

2 thoughts on “MASIE April 26 2014 – Arctic Ice Extent By Region As of Day 115

  1. When I saw earlier this year that MASIE deletes data older than the current 28 day period, I began building a spreadsheet to retain the older numbers. It is interesting to see how the melt progresses in the different NH sectors, by comparing the losses against the maximums in each.

    For NH overall, the ice extent was 15.52 MKm2 on day 73 (March 14, 2014). On April 25, the amount was 13.98, a loss of 1.53, almost 10%.

    Barents Sea lost 0.12, Baffin Bay Gulf of St.Lawrence 0.46, Bering Sea 0.42 and Sea of Okhotsk 0.76 from their individual maximums, comprising most of the melting.

    Meanwhile the Central Arctic is still at its maximum and Greenland Sea has lost only 0.06.

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