Minimum
Summer Artic Sea-Ice Record Broken Early -- More Melting in Store
Real
Climate,
26
August, 2012
We noted earlier
that the Artic sea-ice is approaching a record minimum. The record is
now broken, almost a month before the annual sea-ice minima usually
is observed, and there is probably more melting in store before it
reaches the minimum for 2012 – before the autumn sea-ice starts to
form.
The
figure shows annual variations in the area of sea-ice extent, and the
x-axis marks the time of the year, starting on January 1st and ending
on December 31st (for the individual years). The grey curves show the
Arctic sea-ice extent in all previous years, and the red curve shows
the sea-ice area for 2012.
(The
figure is plotted with an R-script that
takes the data directly from NSIDC;
the R-environment is available from CRAN)
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