Sea Ice Extent – Day 139 – 6th Highest Global Sea Ice For This Day – Antarctic Sets 51st Daily Record For 2015

Published on by sunshinehours1

6th Highest Global Sea Ice For This Day – Above one standard deviation.

51st Daily Record for Antarctic – 1.5 million above the 1981-2010 mean. – Above 2 standard deviations.

Global_Sea_Ice_Extent_Zoomed_2015_Day_139_1981-2010 Antarctic_Sea_Ice_Extent_Zoomed_2015_Day_139_1981-2010 Arctic_Sea_Ice_Extent_Zoomed_2015_Day_139_1981-2010

Data: South / North

2 thoughts on “Sea Ice Extent – Day 139 – 6th Highest Global Sea Ice For This Day – Antarctic Sets 51st Daily Record For 2015”

  2. Day 141, May 21 results from MASIE. A day of losses with 2015 building on its lead.

    2014 lost about 130k on this day while 2015 lost 70k km2 down to 12.64M km2. The loss is at 13.1% from NH max on day 93. 2015 lead is 0.6%, which is about 80k km2 difference.

    Some Arctic ice watchers are focused on the BCE region: Beaufort, Chukchi and East Siberian Seas. It seems that when multi-year ice collects in this region, the Arctic Sea ice margin is protected, and the melting is reduced, resulting in a higher September minimum. Thus an early melting in BCE region can signal a lower summer minimum for NH ice extent, and vice-versa.

    To monitor this, I have added a BCE index, being the total 2015 ice extent in BCE as a % of total 2014 extent in the same region. All figures from MASIE.

    https://rclutz.wordpress.com/2015/05/12/arctic-ice-watch-2015-2/

    Reply

Leave a comment