September 2014 – Page 6 – sunshine hours

Global Sea Ice Extent Sep 17 2014 – 119,000 sq km above Normal

Published on September 17, 2014 by sunshinehours11 Comment

Global Sea Ice Extent Sep 17 2014 – 119,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. Data for Day 259. Data here.

Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Sep 17 2014 – Amazing – Another 100,000 sq km – Only 85,000 sq km From 20 Million

Published on September 17, 2014September 17, 2014 by sunshinehours17 Comments

Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Sep 17 2014 – 1,372,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. Data for Day 259. Data here.

5th All-Time Record in 5 days. Skyrocketing toward 20,000,000.

Wow.

Antarctic Sea Ice AREA Sets Another All-Time Record – Day 257

Published on September 17, 2014 by sunshinehours1Leave a comment

Antarctic Sea Ice Area has now set another all-time record too. (difference between Area/Extent here)

The new record for area is 16.47964 million sq km which is 85,000 sq km higher than the previous days record and 240,000 sq km higher than the old 2007 record.

Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Sept 16 2014 – Holy Crap – Another All-Time Record – 4th In A Row

Published on September 16, 2014September 16, 2014 by sunshinehours11 Comment

Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Sept 16 2014 – 1,273,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. Data for Day 258. Data here.

4th All-Time Record in a row. 240,000 sq km higher than 2013’s record.

Holy Crap … there is a chance of hitting 20,000,000 sq km.

Antarctic Sea Ice AREA Sets All-Time Record Too – Day 256

Published on September 16, 2014 by sunshinehours13 Comments

Antarctic Sea Ice Area is now an All-Time Record Too.

The new record for area is 16.39439 million sq km which is 162,000 sq km higher than the old 2007 record.

I usually graph Sea Ice Extent. Every once in a while I graph Sea Ice Area. (Like yesterday)

“A simplified way to think of extent versus area is to imagine a slice of swiss cheese. Extent would be a measure of the edges of the slice of cheese and all of the space inside it. Area would be the measure of where there is cheese only, not including the holes. That is why if you compare extent and area in the same time period, extent is always bigger.”

http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/faq/#area_extent

MASIE Arctic Sept 15 2014 – Big Melting

Published on September 15, 2014 by sunshinehours16 Comments

Sept 15 2014 MASIE Update – Big Melting (Unlike the NSIDC which showed a small gain)

Data here. Click for bigger.

Region	170 days ago	End	Last 169	Last 28	Last 14	Last 7	Last 3	Last 1
Canadian Archipelago	853,214	410,154	-443,060	-113,390	-85,264	-93,621	-69,749	-49,456
Central Arctic	3,221,921	2,960,014	-261,907	-98,238	-55,263	-8,786	-41,586	-12,261
Greenland Sea	603,416	194,174	-409,241	-58,400	-20,178	13,124	3,858	-6,766
Kara Sea	933,859	81,091	-852,769	-119,512	-50,315	-15,125	-3,266	-5,227
East Siberian Sea	1,087,137	483,793	-603,344	-149,103	-55,548	-43,748	-38,896	-5,178
Chukchi Sea	966,006	260,919	-705,087	-215,310	-63,991	-20,612	-13,466	-4,485
Hudson Bay	1,260,903	7,037	-1,253,867	-62,229	-31,724	-13,313	-5,748	-3,373
Baffin Bay Gulf of St. Lawrence	1,688,530	11,153	-1,677,377	-654	-6,326	-6,857	-3,283	-2,753
Barents Sea	645,917	139,567	-506,350	29,622	212	14,868	-95	-1,974
Laptev Sea	897,845	2,032	-895,813	-41,098	-25,041	-4,053	-17	-217
Bering Sea	697,324	0	-697,324	0	0	0	0	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
Beaufort Sea	1,070,445	722,391	-348,054	-30,543	4,457	-11,800	-5,098	5,997

Northern Hemisphere (Total)	14,805,115	5,273,467	-9,531,647	-858,854	-388,980	-189,920	-177,074	-85,694

NH (Average Loss per Day)			-56,069	-30,673	-27,784	-27,131	-59,025	-85,694