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Antarctic Sea Ice AREA – Day 261 – Another 95,000 sq km – Still Going Almost Straight Up

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Update: Comment from kyomu (thanks) reminded me that I had posted yesterdays graph. The graph is now correct. Apologies.

Antarctic Sea Ice Area is still skyrocketing. (difference between Area/Extent here)

Another day another 95,000 sq km. 570,000 sq km above the old record from 2007. 6th All-Time Record in a Row

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

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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.

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Antarctic Sea Ice AREA Sets All-Time Record Too – Day 256

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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

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