Category: Sea Ice News

I missed doing a Sea Ice News last week due to being a bit discombobulated with family health issues which have now thankfully been resolved, so I’ll pick up here…

Guest post by Dr. Walt Meier Now that the summer is over, I thought people might be interested in a bit of retrospective of the sea ice melt season in…

This week we continue to see strong gains in Arctic Sea Ice. JAXA’s extent paused briefly, but has resumed a strong upwards climb, now exceeding 2005 for this date. JAXA…

The news last week was the quick turnaround, this year it is the speed of ice growth. JAXA extent shows sharp growth, exceeding the 2009 rate, and almost as fast…

As I mentioned earlier, I held the WUWT Sea Ice News feature a day so that I could including an expected press release from NSDIC. I’m glad I did. Here…

UPDATE: Regular Sea Ice News now posted here: Sea Ice News #25 – NSIDC says 2010 3rd lowest for Arctic sea ice ======================================= Normally I have a Sea Ice News feature…

After a false start that fooled even the experts, it appears that sea ice has turned the corner, for real this time. NSIDC issued an update this week: Update: 21…

NOTE: This post has several images, including two animations. Those on slower connections, please be patient while they load. This week, I suppose the best word to describe the status…

UPDATE: 8AM PST 9/13/10 JAXA has updated with their final Sept 12th data, up for the second straight day there’s been a gain: The latest value : The latest value…

This week was a true roller coaster ride with Arctic Sea Ice. It is best summed up by looking at the JAXA graph for extent, shown below: Below, see the…

By Steve Goddard Arctic Ice (red line above) has dropped just below my June forecast (dashed line.) Over the last two weeks, strong southerly winds reminiscent of 2007 have compacted…

By Steve Goddard NCEP has changed their forecast, and it now appears there will be above normal temperatures over the Beaufort Sea for the next few days. This will cause…

By Steve Goddard Barrow, AK early this morning Darkness is returning to the Arctic as the sun moves towards the horizon. In four weeks, the sun will disappear completely at…

By Steve Goddard Summer has come to a premature and frosty end at Santa’s workshop. http://psc.apl.washington.edu/northpole/webphotos/noaa2.jpg It has been the coldest summer on record north of 80N, and temperatures have…

by Steve Goddard In April, I pointed out that PIOMAS forecasts for the summer didn’t make much sense. The computer model is predicting that 3+ year old ice (which is…

Joe writes to me today to tell me he’s started a weekly sea ice video report. He’s following our weekly Sea Ice News and Sea Ice Page lead, and even…

By Steve Goddard The Arctic is proud to have been listed as one of many “fastest warming places on earth.” The GISS 250km Arctic image below shows temperature trends from…