Will it or won't it...?
It won't, extent reduced, so today my post will assume that the maximum of 15th Septemeber of 18.86 million km2 was the maximum. Of course today and the days afterwards may see extent increases.JAXA ANTARCTIC SEA ICE EXTENT: 18,838,447 KM2 as at 27-Sep-2020
- Extent loss on this day 18k, 39 k less than the average gain on this day (of the last 10 years) of 21k,
- Extent loss from maximum on this date is -0.02 million km2, -0.23 million km2, (91%) less than the 10 year average of 0.26 million km2.
- Extent is at position #30 in the satellite record of which 17 lower values are in the years before 2000
- Extent is 919 k MORE than 2016
- Extent is 1,209 k MORE than 2017
- Extent is 795 k MORE than 2018
- Extent is 491 k MORE than 2019
- Extent is 401 k MORE than the 1980's Average
- On average 1.6% of ice loss from maximum to minimum done, and 147 days to maximum
Projections. (Table JAXA-Ant1)Average remaining melt (of the last 10 years) would produce a minimum in Feb 2021 of 2.76 million km2, 0.61 million km2 above the 2017 record low minimum of 2.15 million km2.
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