MASIE April 29 2014 – Arctic Ice Extent By Region As of Day 118

April 29 2014  MASIE Update (This Arctic Sea Ice dataset frm MASIE only has 28 days of data.

This is the gain/loss from day 91 to day 118. Negative = loss. Sorted with biggest loser in last 7 days at top. Northern Hemisphere is the grand total.

Notice that even though the NH shows a 404,000 melt in the last 14 days, only 16,782 melted in last 7 days.

The bottom 5 have all gained in last 7 days. Including 102,200 in the Barents Sea.

Region Start End Last 28 Last 14 Last 7 Days
Northern Hemisphere 14,789,245 13,959,969 -829,276 -404,018 -16,782
Baffin Bay Gulf of St. Lawrence 1,711,230 1,454,513 -256,717 -151,655 -79,359
Bering Sea 664,041 474,076 -189,965 -160,060 -70,680
Baltic Sea 15,337 8,725 -6,612 -7,013 -653
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
Canadian Archipelago 853,214 853,214 0 0 0
Hudson Bay 1,260,903 1,260,903 0 0 0
Yellow Sea 0 0 0 0 0
Sea of Okhotsk 829,717 376,689 -453,028 -118,565 223
Central Arctic 3,231,886 3,248,013 16,127 4,581 1,482
Greenland Sea 624,163 649,651 25,488 15,511 13,156
Kara Sea 932,891 935,023 2,132 0 16,849
Barents Sea 634,409 675,523 41,114 15,469 102,200

 

Here is the MASIE graph. 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.

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MASIE Arctic Ice Extent as of 2014118

 

One thought on “MASIE April 29 2014 – Arctic Ice Extent By Region As of Day 118

  1. Yes Barents has been adding ice, offsetting melting elsewhere, and is now only 0.06 MKm2 below its max (day 86 and near to max on day 99).

    Also, Central Arctic remains at its max and Greenland Sea has lost only 0.03 from its max, which occurred on day 112..

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