MASIE Arctic July 31 2014 – A Small Increase After Two Days of ‘Melt’

July 31 2014  MASIE Update – A Small Increase After Two Days of ‘Melt’ (wind may play some role).

The Central Arctic (1st bar graph) shows the Central Arctic refusing to melt — up 20,598 in last 7 days.

The Northern Hemisphere is the 2nd bar graph. Lots of melting.

Data here.  Click for bigger.

MASIE Central_Arctic Freeze.Melt as of 2014211

MASIE Northern_Hemisphere Freeze.Melt as of 2014211

MASIE Arctic Ice Extent as of 2014-211

Region 124 days ago End Last 123 Last 28 Last 14 Last 7 Last 3 Last 1
East Siberian Sea 1,087,137 935,195 -151,942 -73,734 -33,403 -51,653 -55,726 -12,962
Laptev Sea 897,845 261,389 -636,456 -277,564 -111,623 -87,147 -79,694 -11,824
Beaufort Sea 1,070,445 838,243 -232,202 -56,602 25,732 21,775 5,711 -1,770
Canadian Archipelago 853,214 694,873 -158,341 -52,393 -10,769 159 7,285 -1,120
Hudson Bay 1,260,903 165,379 -1,095,524 -583,222 -140,218 -54,381 -35,075 -336
Bering Sea 697,324 0 -697,324 -11,314 -7,345 -15 -15 0
Baltic Sea 15,337 0 -15,337 0 0 0 0 0
Sea of Okhotsk 853,240 0 -853,240 0 0 0 0 0
Yellow Sea 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chukchi Sea 966,006 612,946 -353,060 -128,237 -25,276 -15,076 -28,860 1,310
Baffin Bay Gulf of St. Lawrence 1,688,530 76,451 -1,612,079 -316,965 -49,116 -35,228 -6,171 1,953
Central Arctic 3,221,921 3,210,238 -11,683 -20,086 25,127 20,598 1,131 2,983
Greenland Sea 603,416 356,821 -246,595 -129,540 -53,747 1,431 -12,457 6,824
Barents Sea 645,917 83,937 -561,980 -55,310 -3,953 -2,360 4,090 7,261
Kara Sea 933,859 348,137 -585,722 -408,507 -208,894 -92,049 -56,512 17,681
Northern Hemisphere (Total) 14,805,115 7,584,752 -7,220,363 -2,113,700 -593,483 -293,946 -256,293 10,000
NH (Average Loss per Day) -58,229 -75,489 -42,392 -41,992 -85,431 10,000

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