Arctic Sea Ice Extent Sep 18 2014 – -1,179,000 sq km below the 1981-2010 mean. Data for Day 260. Data here.
A Rise of 27,000 sq km, Day 259 with 4.98339 million sq km is now the potential minimum (but I make no predictions since it has been a surprising year).
Arctic Sea Ice Extent Sep 17 2014 – -1,254,000 sq km below the 1981-2010 mean. Data for Day 259. Data here.
Arctic Sea Ice Extent Sep 15 2014 – -1,202,000 sq km below the 1981-2010 mean. Data for Day 257. Data here.
A 1,610 sq km Rise.
Arctic Sea Ice Extent Sept 14 2014 – -1,144,000 sq km below the 1981-2010 mean. Data for Day 256. Data here.
Arctic Sea Ice Extent Sep 13 2014 – -1,098,000 sq km below the 1981-2010 mean. Data for Day 255. Data here.
Day 255 is a new minimum at 5.11471 million sq km – 4800 sq km lower than day 253. (Day 254 was 20,000 sq km higher than day 253)
Arctic Sea Ice Extent Sep 12 2014 – -1,048,000 sq km below the 1981-2010 mean. Data for Day 254. Data here.
Day 253 is potentially the minimum for 2014.
Arctic Sea Ice Extent Sep 11 2014 – -1,117,000 sq km below the 1981-2010 mean. Data for Day 253. Data here.
I only have 166 days of MASIE data. These two graphs are NSIDC and MASIE for the same period.
Minimum is close.
Arctic Sea Ice Extent Sept 10 2014 – -1,062,000 sq km below the 1981-2010 mean. Data for Day 252. Data here.
Arctic Sea Ice Extent Sep 09 2014 – -1,063,000 sq km below the 1981-2010 mean. Data for Day 251. Data here.
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