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It’s raining in the Arctic as an Atmospheric River enters Arctic Ocean through Bering Strait
Here is some information as an update. Many thanks to Sam Carana and Torstein Viddal
Atmospheric
River enters Arctic Ocean through Bering Strait.
Winds
as high as 58 km/h (36 mph) at green circle at surface level, 82 km/h
(51 mph) at 850 mb (hPa), on July 6, 2017, 1500 UTC.
Created
by Sam Carana
for Arctic-News.blogspot.com with nullschool.net images.
It's
raining over the Arctic Ocean.
Surface
temperature of the air is 8.1°C (46.5°F) where an atmospheric river
is entering the Arctic Ocean through the Bering Strait (green
circle).
Daily
volume: 9,176 km³ (3rd lowest for the date) Δ –387/day
–2946/week, –9170/month, +1645/year, –2139/5year (–19%)
–2946/week, –9170/month, +1645/year, –2139/5year (–19%)
Daily extent: 8,741,930 km² (3rd lowest for the date) Δ –80k/day
–668k/week, –2281k/month, +35k/year, –4k/5year (–0%)
2017
volume maximum 22,255 km³ on May 12th (*lowest*)
2017 volume minimum¹ 9,176 km³ on July 3rd
2017 extent maximum 13,878,287 km² on March 6th (*lowest*)
2017 extent minimum¹ 8,741,930 km² on July 3rd
¹Preliminary max/min
2017 volume minimum¹ 9,176 km³ on July 3rd
2017 extent maximum 13,878,287 km² on March 6th (*lowest*)
2017 extent minimum¹ 8,741,930 km² on July 3rd
¹Preliminary max/min
Source:
JAXA / Wipneus for July 3rd 2017.
Western end of the North West Passage
[ arctic.io/explorer/W-W/2017-07-05;2016-07-05/8-N74.27342-W124.54436 ]
The
scariest part of this map plot — showing where 2012 was thicker
(blue) and thinner (red) on June 30 — is that it feels like the
Planet's been focusing its efforts on just the right parts, for a
total meltdown.
If
you're unfamiliar with the Arctic, the problem here is that almost
all of the 'red' (extra) ice on the right and lower side of the map
sits in areas that are literally going south, because of wind and
ocean currents, and/or it swims in waters that cannot sustain ice
throughout the season.
Being
thinner (blue) on the Pacific side, and in the Central Arctic Basin,
of course also doesn't help.
And when most of the ice is gone...and the shallow waters really start to warm up...and all that methane down there continues to bubble up... well, interesting times, indeed...
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