Excellent NSIDC Site Tracking Arctic Sea Ice Loss

[hatrack]

Arctic Sea Ice News 2006
During the crucial summer melting season, scientists monitor the condition of the Arctic sea ice for comparison to previous years. For more on the importance of sea ice and how scientists monitor it, please see our Frequently Asked Questions.

Please see our Resources for the Press, at right, for further details and information of interest to journalists.

Ongoing commentary and updates from NSIDC scientists
August 23, 2006 through October 3, 2006, we will post updates as events warrant. To view previous updates, scroll down. For automatic updates, see our RSS Feed.

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Check out these graphics of anomalies 2000 - 2006:

2000 - 2005


2005


2006 YTD


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http://nsidc.org/news/press/2006_seaiceminimum/20060816_arcticseaicenews.html

[JHB]

1. On the bright side...

...we've finally discovered the Northwest Passage!
(/sarcasm)

[skids]

2. Thanks, that one is a lot easier to understand...

...than the more technical maps posted earlier.

[Systematic Chaos]

3. The bottom three maps, are they describing temperature variation?

I can't quite make the captions out on them.

If so, then we're seeing some truly amazing extremes so far this year. Horrible areas of red AND a lot of blue. This is not good, and to think it's only just beginning to accelerate.

[hatrack]

5. Yes, exactly so

What's harder for me to read are the maps - they tend to get a bit behind the temperature graphics.

What's clear, though, are two very large high-temp anomalies SW of Greenland and in and around Svalbard present in prior years, but strikingly strong in 2006.

There are also some low-temp anomalies apparently over northern Siberia, though they don't seem to be much more than 1C in scale - as opposed to the Svalbard anomaly, which is almost off the temp scale given next to the map.

[Dead_Parrot]

4. Oh-oh...

A picture paints a thousand words: In this case, "Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck...."