I am indebted to Torstein Viddal and his Facebook page Arctic Sea Ice as well as to the Arctic Sea Ice forum
2017 Arctic sea ice: 8th lowest – is this credible?
Arctic sea ice at minimum extent:
The
graph below shows Arctic sea ice extent as of September 17, 2017,
along with daily ice extent data for five previous years. 2017 is
shown in blue, 2016 in green, 2015 in orange, 2014 in brown, 2013 in
purple, and 2012 in dashed brown. The 1981 to 2010 median is in dark
gray. The gray areas around the median line show the interquartile
and interdecile ranges of the data.
Credit:
National Snow and Ice Data
2017 Arctic sea ice: 8th lowest or Lowest Ever?
You
be the judge: «On September 13, Arctic sea ice appears to have
reached its seasonal minimum extent of 4.64 million square
kilometers, the eighth lowest in the 38-year satellite record.» US
NSIDC
NSIDC
has the worst resolution on Earth for their sea ice products, and
accordingly they clock the extent at 8th lowest for the minimum this
September.
JAXA
has better resolution and they say 6th lowest at minimum.
2017
is however a calendar year, and as such it’s 2nd only to last year,
2016, for its average sea ice extent (see graph in the first
comment).
And
then there’s volume, generally agreed to be the best measure for
our declining ice–cap. How’s Arctic sea ice volume doing in 2017,
according to PIOMAS? Umm, er, it appears to be record low, or at
least lowest in satellite record (since 1979).
Try
tell that to the Mainstream Media!
-Torstein Viddal,via Facebook
8th Lowest — A convenient untruth?
Meanwhile Zero Hedge are serving up this nonsense. What do they know about science?!
Inconvenient? Record Arctic Sea Ice Growth In September
"Bottom melt is also still going on, and due to so much open water in the CAB and general Arctic Ocean, waves, vapour & cyclones are having a go at remaining ice. Wind could also set the ice in motion, and we could see ice going south for many months still before spring melt."
---Thorsten Viddal,via Facebook
Comments on the 207 ice minimum
«With all due respect, I may have misread you, but I think you are looking at it in a very black and white way: Ie. "Is it at the lowest, or is it not?", as are many people on the internet today.
I'm
sorry, but that is just a very primitive way to think about the
Arctic.
First
off, to me (and I think this is what Wadhams thinks too based on
e-mails and knowing how old Oxford boffins from a bygone era, tend to
talk), is that a "Blue Ocean Event" doesn't really mean a
full blown open ocean like the Mediterranean or something. It means a
ton of icebergs floating around all over the place, with enough room
to sail ships through them in most places, and a load of ice clinging
to land masses.
ie.
Icebergs everywhere, but no discernible (or very small) "ice-pack".
Huge portions of the Arctic Ocean were getting close to that this
year.
The
Arctic Ocean itself is close to, or at, the worst shape (volume) on
record, apart from thick ice crushed against land-masses. And this is
the answer you should give to climate-science deniers who are all
over the Net now, braying about how the "Arctic is growing".
North
Atlantic waters seeping into the Arctic are warmer than ever, the
Nares was open all year since last year, the SSTs all around are
warmer, the overall Arctic Ocean volume (ignoring thick ice crushed
against land) is close to the worst state on record at start of
freezing season, if not the worst, the ice itself is said to be poor
quality, the fire seasons are pouring more soot over the Arctic than
ever, and the fire seasons are longer than before, the seabeds are
thawing, the tundra is warming.
I
try really hard to see the good news, and the idea that 'we dodged a
bullet' being floated all over the internet now. I don't see it.
“Extent” is not telling the true state the overall Arctic Ocean.
These
general extent graphs are deceptive. I do think volume is the most
important factor, and that volume in the overall Arctic Ocean to be
the most important indicator. There could be more snow in winter, but
that's about it (which is what climate-scientists predicted for
decades now).
So
"dodging a bullet", or "7th worst on record", it
is not.
But
wait for the science-deniers across the right-wing news to start
shouting that ""the Arctic ice is in the best shape in
years, and getting better.""
I
am very concerned that ice-aficionados are going to let the
climate-science-deniers get away with it, because these ice-observers
themselves are saying "things are not that bad, because extent
(of sea-ice in the N. Hemisphere) is better than expected". I
think it's dangerous, and neglectful.»
«The Chukchi did not freeze over until mid-December 2016, opened already in early June 2017 and has been totally ice-free now for months. If you think that Arctic amplification of global warming is all about albedo, you're completely wrong. It's primarily a fall and winter effect of clouds and radiation imbalance over reduced sea ice. And what's happening in the Arctic today isn't staying in the Arctic.»
Thorsten Viddal: My way too simple 14–day decrease algorithm now suggesting 3rd week of October for the Blue Ocean Event.
Pavel
- ASIF Citizen
- Posts: 107
Cold anomalies in Siberia and the Laptev sea cools quickly. I was expecting slow freeze up of the Laptev but now it looks it will freeze like in previus years. Chuckchi and ESS still look terrible, that may lead to low November SIE but e'll see
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