Antarctic Sea Ice AREA – Day 262 – 50,000 sq km Drop

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Antarctic Sea Ice Area has stopped skyrocketing (difference between Area/Extent here)

One day is hardly a trend, but the peak may have occurred.

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4 thoughts on “Antarctic Sea Ice AREA – Day 262 – 50,000 sq km Drop”

  1. As I expected, Area hit a top yesterday and I feel it will not be making any more new all-time highs this year.
    How did I know, My ace up my sleeve is Solar activity.
    http://www.solen.info/solar/

    Minimum when it gets there, I feel could set a New All-Time high low since the ice Area is thick from want I saw on the latest visible satellite pictures. Very compacted..

    Extent may set a few more all-time records in the next week or so since solar and extent don’t really track each other like area..
    Keep up the Great charting Bruce..

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  3. I think that the graph is mislabeled. I think it should be millions of sq. METERs not millions of sq. km.[kilo-meters].

    If the ice area was a uniform circle:

    16.80M km^2 the radius would be 2.3125M km -> this would be 2.3125 x 10^9 meters or 1.9148 x 10^6 miles [1,914,800 miles]!!

    at 16.80M m^2 the radius would be 2.3125M meters -> this would be 2.3125 x 10^6 meters or 1.9148 x 10^3 miles -> 1,914.8 miles
    at 16.76M m^2 the radius would be 2.3097M meters
    difference of .0028M m or 2,800 m -> 1.740 miles

    So a change of +50,000 m^2 ice area extends the ice sheet by about 1 3/4 mile.

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    1. Antarctica has a radius of approximately 2,000 km with an area of approx. 14,000,000 sq km.

      The ice sheet adds another 20 million sq km (using extent) changing radius to approx 3200 km. (of course it isn’t uniform. The Antarctic peninsula has almost no sea ice and some parts of Antarctica re 1500 km from land edge to sea ice edge)

      Antarctica is huge. Bigger than Europe, slightly smaller than SA.

      1. Asia – 17,139,445 square miles (44,391,162 square km)
      2. Africa – 11,677,239 square miles (30,244,049 square km)
      3. North America – 9,361,791 square miles (24,247,039 square km)
      4. South America – 6,880,706 square miles (17,821,029 square km)
      5. Antarctica – About 5,500,000 square miles (14,245,000 square km)
      6. Europe – 3,997,929 square miles (10,354,636 square km)
      7. Australia – 2,967,909 square miles (7,686,884 square km)

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