Fascinating discussion about Hudson Bay over the last couple of days. Smashing images and a super demo of how there are various ways an oddity (this time ANSR2 data) can be tested from different sources. Which makes me more confident about this posting.
ps: If you are just waking up in your part of the world, have a good look at the last twenty posts or so on this thread. I am tempted to save them all..
NSIDC Total Area as at 14 July (5 day trailing average = 5,974,268 km2
This is up a mere 8 k up to 61 k above the 2010-2017 average
Total Area loss 96K, Central Seas 41 k, Periphery loss 29 k, Other Seas loss 26 k
Analysis of individual seas.
Pacific Side
- The Okhotsk Sea area is 5 k,
- The Bering Sea area is 3 k,
- Chukchi Sea loss 10k,
- Beaufort Sea loss 2 k,
Small Area loss on the day.
Atlantic Side
- Baffin Sea loss 19 k,
- Greenland Sea loss 7 k,
- Barents Sea loss 2 k - Barents Sea area is 12 k, i.e. melting finished for all practical purposes.
- The Kara Sea area loss 24 k.
- The Laptev Sea area loss 14 k.
CAB
- The Central Arctic Sea gain 30 k,
- The Canadian Archipelago loss 6 k,
- East Siberian Sea loss 14 k .
Other seas
- St Lawrence area at 1 k,
- Hudson Bay area loss 26 k. Not 142k.
Daily area loss 14th July at 2010's average.
Extent loss continues to catch up fast to area loss, as shown very well on the attached graph. Will area losses also accelerate ? (JAXA data - where are you ?)