It looks that the data from Uni Hamburg is stable again, time to resume the daily reports.
First, what has been missed in 5 days. Here is the differences.
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Extent: +218k6 (-38k vs 2013, +1378k vs 2012)
Area: +278k1 (-127k vs 2013, +1300k vs 2012)
Clearly the freezing season has started (regarding the full Arctic). Regionally the CAB and Greenland Sea show significant increases, other regions are still slow.
Extent:
Central Arctic Basin East Siberian Sea Laptev Sea
124.6 20.9 -0.4
Kara Sea Barents Sea Greenland Sea
-9.4 0.5 44.9
Baffin/Newfoundland Bay St. Lawrence Hudson Bay
4.5 0.0 0.0
Canadian Archipelago Beaufort Sea Chukchi Sea
23.1 7.6 2.4
Bering Sea Sea of Okhotsk Total Extent
-0.1 0.0 218.6
Area:
Central Arctic Basin East Siberian Sea Laptev Sea
160.5 23.2 -0.4
Kara Sea Barents Sea Greenland Sea
-6.6 5.0 51.4
Baffin/Newfoundland Bay St. Lawrence Hudson Bay
4.1 0.0 0.0
Canadian Archipelago Beaufort Sea Chukchi Sea
22.6 16.9 1.4
Bering Sea Sea of Okhotsk Total Area
0.0 0.0 278.1
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