First some news on the status of the WUWT Sea Ice Page. The JAXA imagery, which has been DOA ever since the failure of the AMSRE instrument on the AQUA…
Category: Sea Ice News
Sea Ice News Volume 3 Number 5 – SEARCH Sea Ice Outlook forecasting contest for 2012
The Arctic sea ice extent forecasting contest is on again. As before I’ll allow readers to submit their best estimates in a poll, and I’ll submit those results as we’ve…
Sea Ice News Volume 3 Number 4: NSIDC Arctic sea ice extent touches the normal line
There was a lot of controversy leading up to this moment, as we covered previously on WUWT where NSIDC put a new trailing average algorithm online with no notice, and…
Sea Ice News Volume 3, #2
In today’s report Arctic Sea Ice on the rise again, presently in the range of normal levels Antarctic Sea Ice is at slightly above normal levels Why is early satellite…
Sea Ice News Volume 3 #1 – The "Arctic Institute" pwns itself
UPDATE: 3/5 8:30PM PST There’s a hilarious backstory on the sockpuppetry that went on yesterday from the founder of The Arctic Institute – read my comment on it here It…
Sea Ice News: rapid re-refreeze of the Arctic in October, 40% faster than normal
From NSIDC: A rapid freeze-up Arctic sea ice extent increased rapidly through October, as is typical this time of year. Large areas of open water were still present in the…
Arctic ice refreezing after falling short of 2007 record
By Joseph D’Aleo, CCM, AMS Fellow The arctic ice appears to have bottomed out at a level 6.4% higher than the 2007 record. Mark Serreze of the National Snow and…
Sea Ice News: Arctic sea ice "may" have turned the corner
UPDATES: New NSIDC data and a press release from them added below. While some folks (Joe Romm in particular) are touting the recent University of Bremen press release suggesting a…
Sea Ice News: Arctic sea ice extent making a sharp right turn
Over the past few days, Arctic sea ice extent has braked dramatically in the daily loss rate and now has made a sharp right turn, which is rather unusual. Here’s…
Sea Ice News – June ARCUS forecast from readers submitted
JAXA AMSR-E Sea Ice Extent -15% or greater – click to enlarge I submitted the WUWT ARCUS sea ice forecast today, based on votes received in our poll. Here is…
Sea Ice News – Call for Arctic sea-ice forecasts, plus forecast poll
It has been awhile since I’ve done a sea-ice report. That said, not much of note has been going on in the sea-ice arena, we are in that time of…
Sea Ice News #36 – Arctic maximum ice extent reached – NANSEN data disagrees with NSIDC's on the claim of a tie with 2006-2007
Now we start the slow slide into the Arctic Ice Minimum, likely sometime in September. It is important to point out that there’s a lot of ice up there, and…
Sea Ice News #35 – Less ice, more snow
This is NSIDC’s report, and since I’m on a road trip, I’m unable to do an in-depth analysis. However, the WUWT Sea Ice page has more, and you can draw…
Sea Ice News #34
It has been awhile since I posted a Sea Ice News. This one is a two parter. NSIDC’s Monthly Sea Ice News comes first, followed by some images and content…
Sea Ice News #33
I’ve held the normal Sunday Sea Ice news until NSIDC released their monthly report, which they did today. I’m repeating it here verbatim. The main issue with Arctic extent has…
Sea Ice News #32 – Southern Comfort
I’ve been remiss at posting regular entries of this feature, and there hasn’t been much happening on the way to peak Arctic Ice this year. The action seems mostly down…
Sea Ice News #31
I’ve watched the hubbub over the AccuWeather video by Joe Bastardi that called NSIDC’s Sea Ice data into question, because it “seemed” to show lower Arctic Sea Ice values than…
Final 2010 Arctic Sea Ice Summary – Sea Ice News #30
UPDATE: Peter Sinclair shows his true crock colors, and refuses to correct his errors in “crock of the week” even after they’ve been clearly pointed out. Some “journalist”, see update…
Sea Ice News #29
In sea ice news this week, Arctic sea ice continues its inexorable climb toward the summit, to be reached sometime in March 2011. At present the ice growth is tracking…
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