3 thoughts on “Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 119 – 2017”
It’s the wind. Cold temperatures help, but anyone who wants to consider 2012 as an explanation as to why wind patterns explain compaction and expansion of the extent would be well served.
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It’s the wind. Cold temperatures help, but anyone who wants to consider 2012 as an explanation as to why wind patterns explain compaction and expansion of the extent would be well served.
Doesn’t that kinda render the whole ice extent metric as a proxy to temperature redundant then??
“Doesn’t that kinda render the whole ice extent metric as a proxy to temperature redundant then??”
YES!