NSIDC Total Area as at 6 July (5 day trailing average = 6,876,736 km2
This is down to 224 k above the 2010-2017 average
Total Area loss 153K, Central Seas 113k, Periphery loss 219 k, Other Seas loss 21 k
Analysis of individual seas.
Pacific Side
- The Okhotsk Sea area is 4,
- The Bering Sea area is 2 k,
- Chukchi Sea loss 16 k,
- Beaufort Sea loss 6 k,
Atlantic Side
- Total area loss of the Baffin, Greenland, and Barents Seas 19 k,
of which the Baffin Sea loss was 11 k, the Greenland Sea loss 5k,and the Barents Sea loss 3 k
- The Kara Sea area loss 13 k.
- The Laptev Sea area loss 18 k .
CAB
- The Central Arctic Sea loss 15 k
- The Canadian Archipelago loss 3 k
- East Siberian Sea loss 42 k (106k in three days)
Other seas
- St Lawrence area at 1 k,
- Hudson Bay area loss 17 k.
Area loss accelerated a bit over the last few days - though NSIDC Area is still sitting between the 2010's average and the 2000's average, very much as in JAXA EXTENT.
Added NSIDC concentration map as at 6 July.