And now ITP 110 has hoisted the white flag and surrender. No news since two weeks. Too bad, as Mercator is showing extreme warmth in Beaufort. It should have been interesting to see what really happens here. The build up of heat shown at 30m and 100m is like nothing ever seen. Will this have an influence on refreeze season ? And Mercator was shown to be warming not enough compared to ITP 100. Depite this, in part of the Beaufort Sea, the big mess is going on and on, with a loosening of the stratification and a build up of energy wich is beyond superlatives and the "spot the difference" game ... Where now the Pacific layer and the halocline ? Where is the freshening and the cooling ? I don't know where we are going at this pace, but here we go.
P.S. : There is no special reason for a comparison with 2016, it was only to give a point of reference for a year wich was in its own quite bad for Arctic.