Global Sea Ice Extent is 215,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. Still higher than any year (for day 222) since 2000. And 2,000,000 sq km higher than 2012.
Category: Arctic Sea Ice
MASIE Arctic Aug 10 2014 – Steady Melting – Central Arctic is melting
Aug 10 2014 MASIE Update – Steady Melting … Central Arctic is melting.
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| Region | 134 days ago | End | Last 133 | Last 28 | Last 14 | Last 7 | Last 3 | Last 1 |
| Central Arctic | 3,221,921 | 3,145,737 | -76,184 | -57,678 | -59,038 | -59,251 | -34,477 | -22,901 |
| East Siberian Sea | 1,087,137 | 791,590 | -295,547 | -182,067 | -199,330 | -103,915 | -65,863 | -22,841 |
| Beaufort Sea | 1,070,445 | 803,969 | -266,476 | -36,621 | -27,781 | -49,680 | -27,006 | -20,195 |
| Canadian Archipelago | 853,214 | 604,842 | -248,372 | -123,937 | -78,833 | -73,380 | -27,803 | -10,425 |
| Baffin Bay Gulf of St. Lawrence | 1,688,530 | 46,363 | -1,642,168 | -116,552 | -38,384 | -26,186 | -3,536 | -6,523 |
| Hudson Bay | 1,260,903 | 128,016 | -1,132,887 | -337,806 | -73,619 | -26,852 | -12,132 | -5,433 |
| Chukchi Sea | 966,006 | 525,015 | -440,991 | -125,838 | -116,792 | -70,511 | -30,787 | -4,666 |
| Kara Sea | 933,859 | 224,726 | -709,133 | -447,050 | -179,922 | -91,361 | -10,154 | -4,101 |
| Barents Sea | 645,917 | 96,613 | -549,304 | -1,960 | 16,766 | 1,995 | -1,104 | 0 |
| Bering Sea | 697,324 | 0 | -697,324 | -8,658 | -15 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Baltic Sea | 15,337 | 0 | -15,337 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sea of Okhotsk | 853,240 | 0 | -853,240 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Yellow Sea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Laptev Sea | 897,845 | 151,499 | -746,346 | -270,255 | -189,584 | -61,540 | -26,558 | 383 |
| Greenland Sea | 603,416 | 296,306 | -307,110 | -136,411 | -60,481 | -55,724 | 9,806 | 18,966 |
| Northern Hemisphere (Total) | 14,805,115 | 6,815,819 | -7,989,295 | -1,844,834 | -1,007,014 | -616,403 | -229,614 | -77,737 |
| NH (Average Loss per Day) | -59,622 | -65,887 | -71,930 | -88,058 | -76,538 | -77,737 |
Global Sea Ice Extent Aug 10 2014 – 253,000 sq km Above ‘Normal’
Global Sea Ice Extent is 253,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. Still higher than any year (for day 221) since 2000.
Arctic Sea Ice Extent – Aug 10 2014 – Highest Since 2006
Arctic Sea Ice Extent is -968,000 sq km below the 1981-2010 mean. Highest for this day since 2006.
Global Sea Ice Extent Aug 8 2014 – 288,000 sq km Above Normal
Global Sea Ice Extent is 288,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. Still higher than any year (for day 217) since 2000.
These years had less global sea ice at the same day: 1985 1986 1990 1991 1993 1995 1997 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Arctic Sea Ice Extent – Aug 8 2014 – Almost Within One Standard Deviation
Arctic Sea Ice Extent is -986,000 sq km below the 1981-2010 mean. Very slowly approaching the Standard Deviation bounds.
Arctic Sea Ice Extent – Aug 8 2014 – Still Approaching One STD
Arctic Sea Ice Extent is -990,000 sq km below the 1981-2010 mean. Very slowly approaching the Standard Deviation bounds.
The latest data is from day 219. Day 245 was the earliest minimum in 1987 and day 265 was the latest minimum in 2005.
Global Sea Ice Extent Aug 8 2014 – 245,000 sq km Above Normal
Global Sea Ice Extent is 245,000 sq km above the 1981-2010 mean. The last year it was higher on this day was back in 2000.
This is the list of years with LESS global sea ice extent on day 219;
1985 1986 1990 1991 1993 1995 1997 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Arctic Sea Ice Extent – Aug 7 2014 – 1,000,000 sq km higher than 2012
Day 218 of 2014 – Arctic Sea Ice Extent is -1,033,000 sq km below the 1981-2010 mean.
Still slowly approaching the Standard Deviation bounds. And 1,000,000 sq km higher than 2012.
MASIE Arctic Aug 6 2014 – Steady Melting
Aug 8 2014 MASIE Update – Steady Melting … but the Central Arctic is barely changing. In fact it is actually 4,463 sq km higher than it was 14 days ago.
NOTE: NSIDC/MASIE data for day 215 was missing (I assume for the same reason NSIDC data stopped being updated) and NSIDC were quick to fix it.
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| Region | 130 days ago | End | Last 129 | Last 28 | Last 14 | Last 7 | Last 3 | Last 1 |
| Beaufort Sea | 1,070,445 | 822,445 | -248,000 | -69,244 | -3,166 | -17,569 | -31,204 | -28,565 |
| Chukchi Sea | 966,006 | 561,262 | -404,744 | -147,978 | -86,115 | -50,374 | -34,264 | -22,355 |
| East Siberian Sea | 1,087,137 | 868,784 | -218,353 | -144,199 | -137,194 | -79,372 | -26,721 | -17,484 |
| Hudson Bay | 1,260,903 | 140,166 | -1,120,738 | -470,713 | -113,117 | -25,550 | -14,703 | -6,106 |
| Canadian Archipelago | 853,214 | 656,561 | -196,653 | -87,247 | -53,545 | -39,432 | -21,661 | -3,203 |
| Baffin Bay Gulf of St. Lawrence | 1,688,530 | 55,677 | -1,632,853 | -195,060 | -61,857 | -18,821 | -16,871 | -3,105 |
| Kara Sea | 933,859 | 282,868 | -650,992 | -448,132 | -214,643 | -47,588 | -33,220 | 0 |
| Bering Sea | 697,324 | 0 | -697,324 | -8,943 | -1,339 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Baltic Sea | 15,337 | 0 | -15,337 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sea of Okhotsk | 853,240 | 0 | -853,240 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Yellow Sea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Greenland Sea | 603,416 | 347,046 | -256,369 | -85,109 | -49,343 | -2,950 | -4,984 | 1,032 |
| Laptev Sea | 897,845 | 199,784 | -698,061 | -272,530 | -177,737 | -73,430 | -13,255 | 1,470 |
| Central Arctic | 3,221,921 | 3,200,691 | -21,230 | -26,401 | 4,463 | -6,564 | -4,297 | 1,962 |
| Barents Sea | 645,917 | 94,317 | -551,600 | -14,868 | 3,765 | 17,641 | -301 | 4,026 |
| Northern Hemisphere (Total) | 14,805,115 | 7,230,743 | -7,574,371 | -1,970,795 | -889,828 | -344,008 | -201,479 | -72,329 |
| NH (Average Loss per Day) | -58,264 | -70,386 | -63,559 | -49,144 | -67,160 | -72,329 |
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