NSIDC Total Area as at 13 September (5 day trailing average) = 3,199,720 km2
This is down to 125 k above the 2010-2017 average total area for this date
NOTE: The minimum area of the 2010-17 average was reached on 10th September, i.e. average now gains in ice
3,199,720 -1,665 982 -2,186 -461
Total Area loss 2 k , 12 k above average for the day,
Central Seas loss 2 k,
Peripheral Seas gain 1 k, all seas <5% of max.
Other Seas loss 0 k, all seas <5% of max.
Analysis of individual seas.
Pacific Side
- The Bering Sea - finished,
- Chukchi Sea loss 2 k, area 25 k, < 5% of max.
Atlantic Side
- Baffin Sea gain 1 k, area 23 k, <5% of max,
- Greenland Sea gain 0 k km2 , area 55 k,
- Barents Sea - finished,
- The Kara Sea area gain 1 k, area 28 k, < 5% of maximum.
- The Laptev Sea area gain 1 k, area 14 k, <5% of maximum.
CAB
- Beaufort Sea gain 3 k,
- The Canadian Archipelago loss 4 k,
- East Siberian Sea loss 6 k .
- The Central Arctic Sea gain 5 k
Other seas
- St Lawrence -finished,
- Hudson Bay area loss 0.5 k, Area 6 k,
- The Okhotsk Sea - finished .
The season is nearly over. Nowt to do but watch day by day.