May 14 2015 MASIE Update (Arctic Sea Ice dataset frm MASIE )
| Region | 53 days ago | End | Last 52 | Last 28 | Last 14 | Last 7 | Last 3 | Last 1 |
| Hudson Bay | 1,260,903 | 1,189,801 | -71,102 | -68,483 | -46,107 | -45,967 | -67,732 | -18,311 |
| Baffin Bay Gulf of St. Lawrence | 1,754,107 | 1,181,678 | -572,429 | -386,868 | -164,206 | -83,668 | -48,318 | -17,264 |
| Chukchi Sea | 966,006 | 954,458 | -11,548 | -11,548 | -11,464 | -11,548 | -10,247 | -9,892 |
| Sea of Okhotsk | 551,895 | 190,364 | -361,531 | -384,509 | -156,301 | -81,791 | -38,700 | -5,032 |
| Barents Sea | 596,771 | 330,094 | -266,677 | -78,187 | -126,016 | -82,792 | -72,795 | -2,922 |
| Kara Sea | 935,023 | 900,287 | -34,736 | -20,703 | -34,408 | -21,476 | -14,754 | -2,897 |
| Beaufort Sea | 1,070,445 | 1,034,833 | -35,612 | -35,612 | -35,612 | -35,612 | -21,579 | -483 |
| East Siberian Sea | 1,087,137 | 1,087,137 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Laptev Sea | 897,845 | 897,845 | 0 | 0 | 124 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Canadian Archipelago | 853,214 | 832,727 | -20,487 | -20,487 | -20,488 | -20,488 | -20,488 | 0 |
| Baltic Sea | 9,702 | 66 | -9,636 | -9,502 | -4,341 | -470 | 0 | 0 |
| Yellow Sea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Central Arctic | 3,247,614 | 3,234,966 | -12,648 | 14,663 | -8,993 | -8,412 | -1,849 | 744 |
| Bering Sea | 667,281 | 236,031 | -431,250 | -413,246 | -175,491 | -64,476 | -36,935 | 5,891 |
| Greenland Sea | 633,474 | 600,178 | -33,296 | -59,718 | -8,683 | 1,654 | 89 | 6,761 |
| Northern Hemisphere (Total) | 14,534,052 | 12,671,911 | -1,862,141 | -1,474,709 | -792,477 | -455,539 | -333,384 | -43,406 |
| NH (Average Loss per Day) | -35,135 | -52,668 | -56,606 | -65,077 | -111,128 | -43,406 |
sunshine hours 
Day 135, May 15 results from MASIE. A day when 2014 gains while 2015 loses.
Gap widens slightly. 2014 gained about 16K on this day while 2015 lost 53K km2 down to 12.54M km2. The loss is at 12.5% from NH max on day 93, same extent as day 132. 2014 lead rises to 1.1%, which is about 138K km2 difference.
https://rclutz.wordpress.com/2015/05/12/arctic-ice-watch-2015-2/