MASIE June 20 2014 – Arctic Sea Ice Up Over Last 7 Days

June 20 2014  MASIE Update – According to MASIE Arctic Sea Ice is up 3,100 over the last 7 days mostly due to the 61,521 rise in last day.

While some the arctic is melting according to MASIE, some of it is growing over the last 7 days: Barents, Kara, Laptev, East Siberian and Greenland Sea.

Pretty amazing for this time in the melt season. DMI does have Arctic temperatures below normal.

Region Start End Last 82 Last 28 Last 14 Last 7 Last 3 Last 1
Hudson Bay 1,260,903 1,119,258 -141,645 -111,224 -50,148 -48,416 -21,491 -22,406
Baffin Bay Gulf of St. Lawrence 1,688,530 879,085 -809,446 -300,514 -144,901 -37,741 6,122 37,975
Bering Sea 697,324 45,557 -651,766 -77,664 -60,843 -23,404 -7,241 -5,930
Beaufort Sea 1,070,445 1,015,139 -55,306 -50,201 -28,723 -18,103 -24,470 -121
Chukchi Sea 966,006 817,475 -148,531 -99,447 -51,996 -15,302 -29,339 -7,937
Sea of Okhotsk 853,240 14,729 -838,511 -65,213 -50,635 -11,649 -1,544 -1,544
Canadian Archipelago 853,214 782,198 -71,016 -41,704 -19,202 -1,516 -3,042 0
Central Arctic 3,221,921 3,242,295 20,374 -4,399 1,693 -949 -1,364 0
Baltic Sea 15,337 0 -15,337 0 0 0 0 0
Yellow Sea 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Barents Sea 645,917 265,967 -379,950 -191,521 -72,654 2,693 -9,850 -16,013
Kara Sea 933,859 862,375 -71,485 -26,479 -3,285 20,582 22,369 12,303
Laptev Sea 897,845 713,573 -184,272 -143,282 -14,040 22,417 9,362 12,002
East Siberian Sea 1,087,137 1,042,709 -44,429 10,158 11,674 33,542 37,355 8,236
Greenland Sea 603,416 690,530 87,114 -41,792 61,702 80,945 9,953 44,956
Northern Hemisphere (Total) 14,805,115 11,492,415 -3,312,699 -1,142,945 -420,973 3,100 -13,180 61,521
NH (Average Loss per Day) -39,912 -40,819 -30,070 443 -4,393 61,521

MASIE Arctic Ice Extent as of 2014-170

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