Category: Antarctic Sea Ice

Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Day 14 2014: Only 9370 sq km Off The Daily Record

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Antarctic Sea Ice Extent on day 14 was only 9370 sq km below the record set in 2008.

Currently extent is 1.47 million sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. Thats 28% higher.

Extent is also more than TWO Standard Deviations above the mean. And has been since Dec 26th.  190 days in 2013 were over TWO standard deviations above the mean.

Data is here. Click for bigger.

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Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Is So High It May Set A Record For Highest Minimum of All time

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Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Is So High It May Set A Record For Highest Minimum of All Time

The Extent for day 10 is 1.48 million sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. And only 220,000 sq km below 2008.

The highest minimum was in 2008. Sea Ice only fell to 3.69 million sq km on day 51.

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Antarctic Sea Ice Extent 1.15 million sq km Above 2013

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So far in 2014, Antarctic Sea Ice Extent is 1.15 million sq km above 2013 and 1.54 million sq km above the 1981-2010 mean.

More remarkably it is only 400,000 sq km below the extraordinary high extent that occurred at a similar period in 2008.

Extent has been more than two standard deviations above the mean since Dec 26 2013 and one standard deviation above the mean since May 29 2013.

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Antarctic Clown Convention HAD to Know The Ice Was Thick Way Back in October

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The bunch of clowns on the MV Akademik Shokalskiy had to have known the ice was highest it has ever been. And the BBC propaganda arm still claims the voyage was to study “melting ice”.

Way back on October 16 2013 the Antarctic supply ship Aurora Australis set sail for summer season and they were interviewed:

“Voyage leader Tony Foy has told Radio National the weather forecast was not good for the start of the journey and there was a lot of ice to get through.

“We’re expecting thick sea ice on the way, but as I told the expeditioners yesterday they’ll get the full Southern Ocean experience which I’m sure they’ll all want,” he said.

“Microwave data we got last week shows the ice concentration this year is as high as it’s been since we started taking readings back in the late 70s.

“I think we can expect it to be pretty slow when we hit the ice edge.”

BBC January 2 2014:

“Despite being trapped, the scientists continued their experiments, measuring temperature and salinity through cracks in the surrounding ice.

One of the aims was to track how quickly the Antarctic’s sea ice was disappearing.”

(h/t EUreferendum)

Global Sea Ice Extent Stats For 2013

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2013 was an average year for Global Sea Ice Extent (thanks to it being a banner year for Antarctic Sea Ice Extent)

The average daily anomaly  was 200,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. That would be 15th highest since 1979.

Max Extent of 27.4959 million sq km For Whole Year Occurred On Day: 306 November 2
Max Anomaly For Whole Year Occurred On Day: 353 December 19 = 0.9459423  million sq km
Max Anomaly % For Whole Year Occurred On Day: 73 March 14 = 4.72%

There were zero daily records set and no 2nd places.

Here are the key stats for each year. Min/Max/Anomaly in millions sq km.

Year Min Max day of Max day of Min Avg Anomaly
1979 19.09222 27.48859 176 38 0.79
1980 18.5996 28.11968 289 57 0.37
1981 18.18091 27.48105 291 45 0.35
1982 18.76482 27.83626 306 42 0.85
1983 18.84029 27.89772 307 47 0.5
1984 17.71544 27.18759 316 40 0.13
1985 17.92867 27.61347 306 50 0.37
1986 18.80319 27.00445 317 45 0.08
1987 18.98408 27.15319 317 46 0.46
1988 18.15105 27.88244 319 45 0.46
1989 18.00758 27.50341 299 48 0.17
1990 18.3706 27.36396 294 45 -0.12
1991 17.96976 27.05178 309 63 0.07
1992 17.95822 27.58992 322 60 0.29
1993 17.84281 27.99757 310 57 0.12
1994 18.57179 27.97479 309 43 0.56
1995 18.49688 27.11473 306 45 -0.01
1996 17.79264 27.46173 293 57 0.39
1997 17.65372 27.04273 310 57 -0.17
1998 18.47935 27.58827 297 47 0.27
1999 17.94246 27.58386 306 62 0.23
2000 17.5882 26.93691 302 49 0.04
2001 18.52515 26.75864 319 38 0.05
2002 18.08847 26.81604 297 55 -0.64
2003 18.72494 27.09882 306 43 0.14
2004 18.31746 27.09686 316 51 -0.01
2005 17.07721 27.37923 308 38 -0.62
2006 16.7209 27.09882 298 30 -0.99
2007 17.21196 26.24784 308 47 -1.05
2008 18.43071 27.30686 310 46 0
2009 17.43751 26.17157 303 53 -0.24
2010 17.39862 26.71555 313 42 -0.4
2011 16.74368 26.17913 307 42 -1.24
2012 17.82476 25.90133 313 51 -0.81
2013 18.21356 27.4959 306 37 0.2

The Year End Graph.

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Antarctic Sea Ice Extent Stats For 2013

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2013 was a banner year for Antarctic Sea Ice Extent. I enjoy my small role in publicizing this data because the “climate science” profession prefers to ignore Antarctic Sea Ice. Of course it is a little harder for the MSM to ignore Antarctica this year when a ship of “scientists” searching for publicity about lower sea ice caused by “global warming” get stuck in the ice.

The highest maximum for Antarctic Sea Ice Extent of all time was set on October 1st 2013.

The highest average anomaly for a year occurred in 2013. 2013 averaged 850,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean.

In 2013, the highest extent ever in each month occurred in July, August, September, October and November.

2013 now has the 2nd highest number of daily records (behind 2008).  2013 also has by far the most “Top 2” days in a year. Only 1979 is left in the list of daily records from before 2000.

Year First Second Top 2
2013 108 149 257
2008 121 29 150
2010 90 42 132
2009 8 33 41
2012 8 22 30
2006 1 26 27
1979 2 12 14
2000 4 3 7
2004 3 4 7

Here are the key stats for each year. Min/Max/Anomaly in millions sq km.

Year Min Max day of Max day of Min Avg Anomaly
1979 2.91521 18.36699 256 48 0.04
1980 2.52686 19.09137 267 57 -0.39
1981 2.69524 18.85906 261 51 -0.21
1982 2.8927 18.55004 246 52 -0.02
1983 2.84656 18.81042 263 55 -0.25
1984 2.38292 18.37747 266 58 -0.2
1985 2.60211 18.93215 254 50 -0.04
1986 2.95395 18.02672 261 65 -0.55
1987 3.01642 18.52332 258 52 -0.24
1988 2.63862 18.78456 277 55 -0.14
1989 2.7229 18.27368 266 51 -0.23
1990 2.78435 18.3788 273 53 -0.24
1991 2.55355 18.66993 273 58 -0.11
1992 2.49238 18.4663 255 54 -0.24
1993 2.28078 18.709 263 50 -0.23
1994 3.08286 18.8266 243 43 0.12
1995 3.32988 18.7353 269 55 0.15
1996 2.59733 18.83039 267 56 0.13
1997 2.26415 18.79094 265 58 -0.26
1998 2.7715 19.2433 258 56 0.08
1999 2.70723 18.98068 273 51 0.11
2000 2.58248 19.15817 272 49 0.11
2001 3.44094 18.49324 271 50 0.02
2002 2.69691 18.11556 252 51 -0.43
2003 3.6257 18.67907 268 48 0.32
2004 3.25927 19.12341 252 51 0.32
2005 2.80387 19.29451 272 49 0.04
2006 2.4866 19.35934 264 51 -0.19
2007 2.7227 19.08545 272 50 0.03
2008 3.69176 18.29726 247 51 0.6
2009 2.67096 19.29864 267 53 0.39
2010 2.8422 18.9968 249 47 0.45
2011 2.31884 18.95328 266 53 -0.15
2012 3.11109 19.47713 266 54 0.36
2013 3.6504 19.57088 274 50 0.85

End of Year Graph

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