Antarctic Sea Ice Area – Page 3

Antarctic Sea Ice AREA Resumes Skyrocketing Climb – Day 259

Published on September 19, 2014September 19, 2014 by sunshinehours16 Comments

Antarctic Sea Ice Area has now resumed the skyrocketing climb after a short pause (difference between Area/Extent here)

Another day another 100,000 sq km. Mind boggling.

Antarctic Sea Ice AREA – Day 258 – Sets 3rd All-Time Record In A Row – But Only by 600 sq km

Published on September 18, 2014September 18, 2014 by sunshinehours1Leave a comment

Antarctic Sea Ice Area has now set a 3rd all-time record on 3 days. (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 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 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