National Ice Center Update - Meanwhile, Back In The Arctic . . .

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In light of June's record low sea-ice coverage, I found the most recent updates quite intriguing:

Here's Svalbard, now totally ice-free even beyond 80 North (the light-blue areas you see signify > 1/10th ice coverage, and the land mass to the south is northern Iceland):



Next door to the east in Franz Josef Land, it's pretty much clear, and north of the center of the archipelago, looks ice-free up to 83, maybe 84 North:





In the Chukchi Sea (Alaska - right, Siberia - left), it's pretty much clear up to 75 North:



And in Baffin Bay (Greenland - right, Ellesmere Island - left) it's fairly clear beyond even Kane Basin nearly to the Arctic Ocean:



I've been visiting this site every single week for five or six years now, and I've never seen ice extent this low for this time of year. Interesting.

[whistle]

1. Anal drift vectors????

...Is that the same as "Shove this ice up your rectum"?:sarcasm: Nice graphics :yoiks:

[hatrack]

2. Bah-da-BOOM!

Reminds me of a famous fake letter than ran in the Anchorage Times :puke: years ago.

The putative author was an SAS station manager being transferred out of Anchorage. He went on and on about the wonders of his Alaskan experience, and proudly signed it "Aynl Sfinckter"

Being the Times, they of course printed it.

[Dogmudgeon]

3. Canadian Ice Resources

They have several analytical maps that are more convenient than the ones at the National Ice Center (USA).

Canadian Ice Service They also have a new product of interest to climate change observers, "Departure from Normal Concentration".

Atlas of Canada Sea Ice Maps
Break-Up Dates
Freeze-Up Dates

There's plenty of data to be found at the ice-glaces and atlas domains.

--p!