Category / Antarctic Sea Ice Extent

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PDO AMO Arctic Antarctic

The graphs start from 1950 to show a full 66 year cycle of the PDO and AMO.

I’m graphing anomalies from the mean for all. Sea Ice is in millions of sq km.

PDO versus Arctic Extent  – note that the satellite record for sea ice starts at peak of PDO

AMO versus Antarctic Extent

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Arctic Recovers – 2017 is 8th Lowest Arctic Minimum

If things hold (and 110,000 sq km of ice would have to melt), day 255 (five days ago) will be the day of Arctic minimum for 2017.

That would still be only the 8th lowest.

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Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 258 – 2017

If things hold (and they may), day 255 (three days ago) will be the Arctic minimum for 2017.

That would still be only the 8th lowest.

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Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 255 – 2017

If things hold (and they may not), day 253 (two days ago) will be the Arctic minimum for 2017.

That would still be only the 8th lowest.

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Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 252 – 2017

If the current numbers hold, 2017 would have the 8th lowest minimum in the Arctic.

Day 250 (2 days ago) was 4.635 million sq km.

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