Back in circulation again- I hope (technology permitting)
NSIDC Total Area as at 26 June (5 day trailing average) = 8,252,513 km2
This is 545k above the 2010-2017 average (and only 129k below the 2000's average on this date).
That's a lot of ice. 545k km2 of ice even at an average thickness of 1/2 a metre is 270+ gigatonnes, nearly the average annual volume loss according to PIOMAS.
Total Area loss recovered over the two days from a mere 9 k, to 83 k, still 20k below average for the day.
Central Seas 16 k Periphery 35k, Other Seas 19k
Analysis of individual seas.
Pacific Side
- The Okhotsk Sea area is 18 k,
- The Bering Sea area is 4k.
- Chukchi Sea loss 15 k,
- Beaufort Sea loss 2 k
i.e. Pacific side slow - loss or even sometimes a slow gain...
Atlantic Side
- Total area loss of the Baffin, Greenland, and Barents Seas 29 k,
of which the Baffin Sea loss was a high 22 k, the Greenland Sea 6k and the Barents 2k
- The Laptev Sea area loss 2 k .
- The Kara Sea area loss 18 k.
CAB
- The Central Arctic Sea loss 2k
- The Canadian Archipelago gain 1 k
- East Siberian Sea gain 2 k
Other seas
- St Lawrence area up at 3 k,
- Hudson Bay area loss 20 k, area now below 1990's average.
Area loss this year to date followed the 2010-17 average very closely indeed, but slowed to well below average since June 10. I again will not resist a comment about melting season posts predicting catastrophic loss of Arctic Sea Ice - always just around the corner.
perhaps on Sunday a good idea to give the area graphs an airing.