Update 20140818.
Extent: -68k6 (-72k vs 2013, +1118k vs 2012)
Area: -6k4 (+114k vs 2013, +1321k vs 2012)
The drop in net extent brings 2014 below 2013 that had an uptick this day.Most of this is caused by the CAB and Greenland Sea. ESS, Beaufort and Kara had smaller declines.
By area (concentration) the CAA had an increase of +21k, small declines in other regions.
The NE passage proper is still "blocked" by low concentration ice (5-10%).
Again, images will be belated today.
You will find the updated graphs in the
top postThe details (in 1000 km
2):
Extent:
Central Arctic Basin East Siberian Sea Laptev Sea
-25.4 -15.6 -1.6
Kara Sea Barents Sea Greenland Sea
-10.2 5.7 -18.6
Baffin/Newfoundland Bay St. Lawrence Hudson Bay
-0.6 0.0 1.0
Canadian Archipelago Beaufort Sea Chukchi Sea
11.9 -12.6 -2.8
Bering Sea Sea of Okhotsk Total Extent
0.0 0.0 -68.6
Area:
Central Arctic Basin East Siberian Sea Laptev Sea
-9.2 -9.0 -1.2
Kara Sea Barents Sea Greenland Sea
-7.5 10.0 -8.9
Baffin/Newfoundland Bay St. Lawrence Hudson Bay
-0.9 0.0 1.7
Canadian Archipelago Beaufort Sea Chukchi Sea
21.0 0.2 -2.6
Bering Sea Sea of Okhotsk Total Area
0.0 0.0 -6.4