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Re: 2019 sea ice area and extent data
« Reply #1050 on: June 10, 2019, 03:04:16 PM »
High Arctic Seas area continues to stall while extent declines.
Concentration increases when one expects it to be declining significantly by now.
(The NSIDC 15% rule usually ensures area starts to decline well before extent at this time of year).
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Re: 2019 sea ice area and extent data
« Reply #1051 on: June 10, 2019, 03:22:54 PM »

Recent daily area losses consistently lower than average, the last 3 days at  less than half the 2010's average area loss on those days.

Analysis of the last 16 days presented in gerontcrat's tables.
The seas are split in half:
There are four seas with almost no changes/even slight increases:
CAA, CAB, ESS and Grønland
There are seas with almost no ice at all, which cannot contribute anymore to total loss:
Okhotsk, St. Lawrence, Bering
And there are seas that constantly lose ice:
around 28% loss: Baffin and Barents,
around 20% loss: Hudson and Beaufort
around 14% loss: Chukchi, Kara and Laptev

This together gives the whole picture of much too low losses for all seas.
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Re: 2019 sea ice area and extent data
« Reply #1052 on: June 11, 2019, 03:56:17 AM »
High Arctic Seas area continues to stall while extent declines.
A discrepancy has developed between the various sensors/resolutions. While High Arctic NSIDC area numbers are middling, JAXA and UH numbers are low. Such discrepancies often resolve themselves, it will be interesting to see where this one goes.
Note: AMSR2 was launched in mid-May 2012, and AFAIK the period before August 2012 does not have complete data, so this could be part of the explanation for the discrepancy. Wipneus would know all the details of this.

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Re: 2019 sea ice area and extent data
« Reply #1053 on: June 11, 2019, 05:43:39 AM »
[ADS NIPR VISHOP (JAXA)] Arctic Sea Ice Extent.

June 10th, 2019:
     10,278,130 km2, a drop of -40,411 km2.
     2019 is 2nd lowest on record.
     (2012 highlighted).
Which is the best answer to Sep-2012 ASI lost (compared to 1979-2000)?
50% [NSIDC Extent] or
73% [PIOMAS Volume]

Volume is harder to measure than extent, but 3-dimensional space is real, 2D's hide ~50% thickness gone.
-> IPCC/NSIDC trends [based on extent] underestimate the real speed of ASI lost.

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Re: 2019 sea ice area and extent data
« Reply #1054 on: June 11, 2019, 06:50:42 AM »

  [...] DMSP was killed by Mike Rogers in 2017. The last satellite is now in a museum somewhere.


Grrr.   viz:

Hopefully, the Europeans stepping up to the plate with at least a few years overlap will stave off the dark ages for a while, at least.

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Re: 2019 sea ice area and extent data
« Reply #1055 on: June 11, 2019, 08:18:02 AM »
JAXA ARCTIC EXTENT :- 10,278,130 km2(June 10, 2019)

- Extent is 2nd lowest in the satellite record, 88  k > 2016, 112 k < 2018, 289 k < 2012.
- Extent loss on this day 40  k, 15 k less than the average loss on this day of 55 k.
- Extent loss from maximum 3,993 k, 372 k (10%) greater than the average of 3,621k loss from maximum by this day,
- On average 36.6% of the melting season done, with 95 days to average date of minimum (13 September).

The Perils of Projections.
Average remaining melt would give a minimum of 4.02 million km2, 2nd lowest in the satellite record, and 0.84 million km2 above the 2012 low of 3.18 million km2.
Looking at the last 5 years average remaining melt gives a result of 4.18 million km2, 4th lowest, 1.00 million km2 above 2012.

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GFS shows temperature anomalies varying from +1.6 to +3.3. Positive anomalies spread over most of the Arctic, with high +ve anomalies at various times along the coastal fringes of Eastern and Central Siberia and the entire coastal fringe of Alaska, Canada and Greenland.

So far average remaining melt data still points towards a 2nd lowest minimum well above 2012. However, only just over 1/3rd of the average melt in the season completed.
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Re: 2019 sea ice area and extent data
« Reply #1056 on: June 11, 2019, 02:45:02 PM »
NSIDC Total Area as at 10 June 2019 (5 day trailing average) 9,190,897 km2
               
Total Area         
 9,190,897    km2      
-134,865    km2   <   2010's average.
-103,796    k   <   2018
-694,001    k   <   2000's average.
         
Total Area Change   -76    k   loss
Peripheral Seas   -10    k   loss
Central Seas__   -38    k   loss
Other Seas___   -27    k   loss
         
Peripheral Seas         
Bering _______   -0    k   loss
Baffin  Bay____   -9    k   loss
Greenland____    1    k   gain
Barents ______   -2    k   loss
         
CAB Seas         
Beaufort_____   -6    k   loss
CAA_________   -19    k   loss
East Siberian__   -14    k   loss
Central Arctic_    19    k   gain
         
Kara_________    3    k   gain
Laptev_______   -14    k   loss
Chukchi______   -7    k   loss
         
Other Seas         
Okhotsk______    1    k   gain
St Lawrence___    0    k   gain
Hudson Bay___   -28    k   loss

Area loss 76 k, 11 k LESS than the 2010's average loss of 87 k on this day.
Total area now 3rd lowest (481 k greater than 2016, and 93k greater than 2012).
 
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GFS shows temperature anomalies varying from +1.6 to +3.3. Positive anomalies spread over most of the Arctic, with high +ve anomalies at various times along the coastal fringes of Eastern and Central Siberia and the entire coastal fringe of Alaska, Canada and Greenland.

Today's daily loss double that of the last 3 days at  less than half the 2010's average area loss on those days. A change on the way - but a lot was the 28k loss in Hudson Bay.

Note that daily sea ice area loss is entering the peak season, as must 2019 to stay in contact with 2016 and 2012 (now falling over the cliff).
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AREA to be half a million km2 GREATER THAN 2016 says to me that perhaps the undoubtedly extraordinary area losses in the Chukchi and the Beaufort are not the whole story.
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Re: 2019 sea ice area and extent data
« Reply #1057 on: June 11, 2019, 02:56:37 PM »
I'd like to check some math on something. Since we're dealing with 5 day averages with area..

The 5 day average loss reported yesterday was 37k. Today that number jumped up to 75k.

That would indicated that the newly added day June 10 had a 190k greater loss than the day that dropped out of the 5 day average...June 5th.

(5*75) - (5*37) = 190

That would indicate a pretty huge loss day on 6/10. Is my math correct?

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« Reply #1058 on: June 11, 2019, 03:07:20 PM »
Indeed

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Re: 2019 sea ice area and extent data
« Reply #1059 on: June 11, 2019, 03:22:29 PM »
Just a follow up on my prior post.

Since the 5 day average loss reported on 6/7 and 6/8 brought the average down, perhaps we'll see century losses reported for area when those days leave the 5 day average on 6/13?

I'll be curious....wondering if something significant is afoot. I wonder how often the 5 day average jumps nearly 40k in a single day ????

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Re: 2019 sea ice area and extent data
« Reply #1060 on: June 11, 2019, 04:18:08 PM »
According to the daily NSIDC data, area dropped 217K yesterday (finally). Compactness immediately drops by more than a percentage point:
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Re: 2019 sea ice area and extent data
« Reply #1061 on: June 11, 2019, 04:23:47 PM »
Area should be fun to watch in coming days.  :)
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Re: 2019 sea ice area and extent data
« Reply #1062 on: June 11, 2019, 06:08:44 PM »
NSIDC Central Arctic sea ice area is now the highest value in the data set for 6.10 with a daily value of 3,093,797 kilometers squared.

« Last Edit: June 11, 2019, 06:13:53 PM by weatherdude88 »

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Re: 2019 sea ice area and extent data
« Reply #1063 on: June 11, 2019, 06:39:58 PM »
re the CAS ia .. It just wants to teach you how meaningless one measure of one part on one day is without reference to why or how . Is this going to be a record year for sea ice retention dude88 ? b.c.
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« Reply #1064 on: June 11, 2019, 07:02:47 PM »
Is this going to be a record year for sea ice retention dude88 ? b.c.

No, sea ice extent and area values will not be in the bottom 3 for the minimum either. The constant anticyclonic weather pattern has compacted sea ice at high latitudes.

This will become especially evident, as sea ice extent and area losses will stall later this melt season when the lower latitude sea ice has melted out.

It should come as no surprise that this early spring and start of summer has been dominated by anticyclone, considering we are at the start of the solar minimum.

There has been research that concludes during the solar minimum, the summer melting season at polar latitudes ‘barometric pressure is higher’ than during other intervals of the solar cycle.
It appears we will now switch to a regime of low pressure over the arctic. I am skeptical it will last longer than several weeks.

I started a new thread, so we do not continue off topic.

https://forum.arctic-sea-ice.net/index.php/topic,2755.0.html
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« Reply #1065 on: June 11, 2019, 07:31:43 PM »

There has been research...

I would be very interested by some links to this research.

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Re: 2019 sea ice area and extent data
« Reply #1066 on: June 11, 2019, 08:30:06 PM »
Just a follow up on my prior post.

Since the 5 day average loss reported on 6/7 and 6/8 brought the average down, perhaps we'll see century losses reported for area when those days leave the 5 day average on 6/13?

I'll be curious....wondering if something significant is afoot. I wonder how often the 5 day average jumps nearly 40k in a single day ????
Yes, if area continues dropping at a century rate, soon the 5 day average will show >100k drops.
The wetting of ESS and Laptev ice is pretty significant, satellite sensors used for NDSIC area are well known to mistake pools over ice by open water, so hence these sudden drops in area when surface melt generalizes. Extent is not prone to this thanks to its 15% threshold that is so hated but is so useful.
Lets see how long daily area drops last...

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« Reply #1067 on: June 11, 2019, 09:08:01 PM »
NSIDC Central Arctic sea ice area is now the highest value in the data set for 6.10 with a daily value of 3,093,797 kilometers squared.

Isn't the good area in central arctic caused by the fact ice is deported towards Greenland and Barents seas, filling areas where ice usually melts ?

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Re: 2019 sea ice area and extent data
« Reply #1068 on: June 11, 2019, 09:12:48 PM »
NSIDC Central Arctic sea ice area is now the highest value in the data set for 6.10 with a daily value of 3,093,797 kilometers squared.

Isn't the good area in central arctic caused by the fact ice is deported towards Greenland and Barents seas, filling areas where ice usually melts ?

It's right. Now large accumulations of perennial ice are pressed against Spitsbergen and Franz Josef Land. Last years there was already open water.

This is reminiscent of the beginning of the summer season of 2012, when there was a lot of ice on the Pacific side due to the cold winter (there was even a record maximum in the Bering Sea). Now the situation has changed.

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« Reply #1069 on: June 11, 2019, 09:21:59 PM »
NSIDC Central Arctic sea ice area is now the highest value in the data set for 6.10 with a daily value of 3,093,797 kilometers squared.

Isn't the good area in central arctic caused by the fact ice is deported towards Greenland and Barents seas, filling areas where ice usually melts ?

Sure, there is more ice that is being exported towards the Greenland and Barents seas. However, there is also more ice compacted at higher latitudes that will be difficult to melt as a result of the anticyclonic weather pattern the arctic has been in.

There are multiple different aspects from this weather event. Both positive and negative as it relates to the upcoming minimum. To achieve a historic minimum you need different weather patterns at specific times throughout the melt season, that coincide with different events in the arctic. It is not as simple as we had this weather pattern for x time, so it will only produce this one effect, and we will now hit a record minimum.
« Last Edit: June 11, 2019, 09:40:25 PM by weatherdude88 »

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Re: 2019 sea ice area and extent data
« Reply #1070 on: June 12, 2019, 03:21:56 AM »
Juan and gerontocrat, thank you both for all the work you do to keep us updated on the area and extent numbers!

I stay up late every night to see Juan's post, and gerontocrat's follow up is the first thing I check every morning when I wake up. 

I have a question for you concerning a tweet today from a well respected PhD climatologist in Alaska.

As you can see below, he says 2019 moved into number 1 on June 10. I know you two use JAXA extent and NSIDC area.  He is talking about NSIDC extent. I'm surprised it differs so much from JAXA.

Have you ever compared the relative difference between the JAXA and NSIDC numbers to see how much they disagree?  I'm talking about only extent. 

I understand the two satellites have different resolution and come with different numbers.  But, I would expect those numbers to be consistent across each year.   It is strange to me that NSIDC sees 2019 as the lowest, when JAXA stills sees 2016 with a decent sized lead. 

If you have, I would be interested to hear what you found. 

Thanks again!
« Last Edit: June 12, 2019, 03:29:07 AM by Rod »

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Re: 2019 sea ice area and extent data
« Reply #1071 on: June 12, 2019, 03:59:58 AM »
As you can see below, he says 2019 moved into number 1 on June 10. I know you two use JAXA extent and NSIDC area.  He is talking about NSIDC extent. I'm surprised it differs so much from JAXA.

Have you ever compared the relative difference between the JAXA and NSIDC numbers to see how much they disagree?  I'm talking about only extent. 

I understand the two satellites have different resolution and come with different numbers.  But, I would expect those numbers to be consistent across each year.   It is strange to me that NSIDC sees 2019 as the lowest, when JAXA stills sees 2016 with a decent sized lead. 
He is correct, 2019 took the lead from 2016 when using NSIDC extent numbers (both 5-day average and daily numbers). But the difference is quite small, 18k. With the latest JAXA extent numbers 2019 is still behind 2016 but by only 88k. I haven't done a statistical comparison, but this is certainly within the margin of error.

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« Reply #1072 on: June 12, 2019, 04:12:07 AM »
Thank you Oren.  It is the margin of error I was curious about. 

I can see where 18k vs 88k is pretty small.

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Re: 2019 sea ice area and extent data
« Reply #1073 on: June 12, 2019, 05:41:15 AM »
[ADS NIPR VISHOP (JAXA)] Arctic Sea Ice Extent.

June 11th, 2019:
     10,233,637 km2, a drop of -44,493 km2.
     2019 is 2nd lowest on record.
     (2012 highlighted).
Which is the best answer to Sep-2012 ASI lost (compared to 1979-2000)?
50% [NSIDC Extent] or
73% [PIOMAS Volume]

Volume is harder to measure than extent, but 3-dimensional space is real, 2D's hide ~50% thickness gone.
-> IPCC/NSIDC trends [based on extent] underestimate the real speed of ASI lost.

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« Reply #1074 on: June 12, 2019, 07:50:58 AM »
Juan and gerontocrat, thank you both for all the work you do to keep us updated on the area and extent numbers!

I stay up late every night to see Juan's post, and gerontocrat's follow up is the first thing I check every morning when I wake up. 

I have a question for you concerning a tweet today from a well respected PhD climatologist in Alaska.

As you can see below, he says 2019 moved into number 1 on June 10. I know you two use JAXA extent and NSIDC area.  He is talking about NSIDC extent. I'm surprised it differs so much from JAXA.

Have you ever compared the relative difference between the JAXA and NSIDC numbers to see how much they disagree?  I'm talking about only extent. 

I understand the two satellites have different resolution and come with different numbers.  But, I would expect those numbers to be consistent across each year.   It is strange to me that NSIDC sees 2019 as the lowest, when JAXA stills sees 2016 with a decent sized lead. 

If you have, I would be interested to hear what you found. 

Thanks again!
You are welcome, Rod.  :)
I haven't follow NSIDC lately. So I only have to say that I am surprise to see this 2019 lead, versus all the other years, even with the 5-day average.

Thank you for the information!
Which is the best answer to Sep-2012 ASI lost (compared to 1979-2000)?
50% [NSIDC Extent] or
73% [PIOMAS Volume]

Volume is harder to measure than extent, but 3-dimensional space is real, 2D's hide ~50% thickness gone.
-> IPCC/NSIDC trends [based on extent] underestimate the real speed of ASI lost.

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Re: 2019 sea ice area and extent data
« Reply #1075 on: June 12, 2019, 08:09:23 AM »
In respect to the comparison between NSIDC and ADS (JAXA), I think that NSIDC usually has more ice than JAXA. Even that I haven't check NSIDC daily values (that have to be smaller than the 5-day average), for June 10th NSIDC has a 5-day average of 10.9 M km2, while ADS (JAXA) had 10.28 M km2.

I am confident that the NSIDC 1-day value is not as low as JAXA.
P.S.: I already check NSIDC 1-day value for June 10th, 2019: 10.767M km2.
Which is the best answer to Sep-2012 ASI lost (compared to 1979-2000)?
50% [NSIDC Extent] or
73% [PIOMAS Volume]

Volume is harder to measure than extent, but 3-dimensional space is real, 2D's hide ~50% thickness gone.
-> IPCC/NSIDC trends [based on extent] underestimate the real speed of ASI lost.

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« Reply #1076 on: June 12, 2019, 08:52:52 AM »
JAXA ARCTIC EXTENT :- 10,233,637 km2(June 11, 2019)

- Extent is 2nd lowest in the satellite record, 79  k > 2016, 141 k < 2018, 231 k < 2012.
- Extent loss on this day 44  k, 7 k less than the average loss on this day of 51 k.
- Extent loss from maximum 4.037 k, 365 k (10%) greater than the average of 3,672 k loss from maximum by this day,
- On average 37.1% of the melting season done, with 94 days to average date of minimum (13 September).

The Perils of Projections.
Average remaining melt would give a minimum of 4.03 million km2, 3rd lowest in the satellite record, and 0.85 million km2 above the 2012 low of 3.18 million km2.
Looking at the last 5 years average remaining melt gives a result of 4.18 million km2, 4th lowest, 1.00 million km2 above 2012.

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GFS shows temperature anomalies varying from +1.7 to +2.8.  Positive anomalies spread over most of the Arctic, with high +ve anomalies at various times along the coastal fringes of Eastern and Central Siberia and the entire coastal fringe of Alaska, Canada and Greenland.

Average remaining melt data still points towards a 3rd lowest minimum well above 2012 and very close to 2nd to 5th lowest. However, only just over 1/3rd of the average melt in the season completed.

WHOOPS - wrong Arc2 graph - fixed
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« Reply #1077 on: June 12, 2019, 10:27:19 AM »
Hi, Gerontocrat.
A good occasion for me to thank you (and Juan) for your brilliant work on this forum, but apparently you put statistics on Antarctic instead of Arctic on your second graph today.

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« Reply #1078 on: June 12, 2019, 02:23:17 PM »
NSIDC Total Area as at 11 June 2019 (5 day trailing average) 9,083,433 km2
               
Total Area         
 9,083,433    km2      
-159,508    km2   <   2010's average.
-153,745    k   <   2018
-742,005    k   <   2000's average.
         
Total Area Change   -107    k   loss
Peripheral Seas   -5    k   loss
Central Seas__   -78    k   loss
Other Seas___   -24    k   loss
         
Peripheral Seas         
Bering _______   -0    k   loss
Baffin  Bay____   -6    k   loss
Greenland____    2    k   gain
Barents ______   -0    k   loss
         
CAB Seas         
Beaufort_____   -1    k   loss
CAA_________   -27    k   loss
East Siberian__   -26    k   loss
Central Arctic_    14    k   gain
         
Kara_________    1    k   gain
Laptev_______   -33    k   loss
Chukchi______   -6    k   loss
         
Other Seas         
Okhotsk______    0    k   gain
St Lawrence___   -0    k   loss
Hudson Bay___   -24    k   loss

Area loss 107 k, 27 K MORE than the 2010's average loss of 80 k on this day.
Total area now 3rd lowest (435 k greater than 2016, and 165k greater than 2012).
 
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GFS shows temperature anomalies varying from +1.7 to +2.8.  Positive anomalies spread over most of the Arctic, with high +ve anomalies at various times along the coastal fringes of Eastern and Central Siberia and the entire coastal fringe of Alaska, Canada and Greenland.

Today's "century break" daily loss after yesterday's strong loss the start of a major reduction in area over the next week or two?
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Note that daily sea ice area loss is within the peak season, as must be 2019 to stay in contact with 2016 and 2012 (now falling over the cliff).
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« Reply #1079 on: June 12, 2019, 02:43:35 PM »
Today's "century break" daily loss after yesterday's strong loss the start of a major reduction in area over the next week or two?

Quite conceivably, as another 214K drop was reported for the 11th, causing compactness to plunge almost 1.5%:
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Re: 2019 sea ice area and extent data
« Reply #1080 on: June 12, 2019, 03:38:29 PM »
How much of this area loss down to the extensive melt pounding on the fast ice? Does look like the Cab is still fairly compact as it should be really.

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Re: 2019 sea ice area and extent data
« Reply #1081 on: June 12, 2019, 03:42:54 PM »
How much of this area loss down to the extensive melt pounding on the fast ice? Does look like the Cab is still fairly compact as it should be really.

A lot of it is, Paul. The area loss isn't that interesting in itself, except that it tells us something about melt pond formation (which is crucial for melting momentum during July and August).
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Re: 2019 sea ice area and extent data
« Reply #1082 on: June 12, 2019, 04:16:43 PM »
Id say well be seeing big number drops in JAXA the next few days

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Re: 2019 sea ice area and extent data
« Reply #1083 on: June 12, 2019, 04:36:07 PM »
Back to back 200k+ loss days in area s/b a big deal. 60% is coming from the ESS/Laptev/Chuchki where the presence of heat is obvious.

25% is coming from CAA where the root cause is not so obvious and coverage on the ASIF has been very little. Any thoughts on that anyone?

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Re: 2019 sea ice area and extent data
« Reply #1084 on: June 12, 2019, 05:00:30 PM »
Don't we have daily datas for NSIDC area ?

Because if i try to calculate what can be figures fitting with 5 days averages, it gives something like this :

25-mai-19   : -70k   
26-mai-19   : -60k   
27-mai-19   : -60k
28-mai-19    : -60k   
29-mai-19   : -60k (-62k av.)
30-mai-19   : -55k (-59k av.)
31-mai-19   : -65k (-60k av.)
01-juin-19 : -105k (-69k av.
02-juin-19 : -40k (-65k av.)
03-juin-19 : -20k (-57k av.)
04-juin-19 : -55k (-57k av.)
05-juin-19 : -55k (-55k av.)
06-juin-19 : -100k (-54k av.)
07-juin-19 : +50k (-36k av.)
08-juin-19 : +15k (-29k av.)
09-juin-19 : -95k (-37k av.)
10-juin-19 : -250k (-76k av.)
11-juin-19 : -255k (-107k av.)

If I'm not mistaken, next two days on trailing average will replace 2 days of positive variation, so we may have 5 days average change above 150k, even if 2 next days are rather weak.
I assume 5 first days were rather smooth, changing those datas may change all the other results but not much, though. 


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Re: 2019 sea ice area and extent data
« Reply #1085 on: June 12, 2019, 05:06:38 PM »
Rich,

Like you I have been hoping to see data to better understand the dynamics of what we are seeing. So far I haven’t found the data or explanations. That said, my suspicion is that the normal impediment to flow through the Nares strait failing this year has changed the dynamic of flow in the central arctic. This may have resulted in upwelling under the ice and changes in salinity that strongly impact ice bottom melt rates as the freezing point of salty water is so much lower than for fresh water. Any change at all in ice bottom flow rates, turnover, salinity ... will have a dramatic effect there. And something like outflow through the Nares can change that dynamic rapidly.

At the same time, the outflow through the Nares has annihilated the last of the thick ice. And that in turn has freed the ice to shatter more easily and to then break free from the Canadian north and be moved into the Beaufort grinder to the west.

Similarly, the loss of the thick ice has allowed more extensive breakup and shattering north of Greenland. And that is allowing and supporting more rapid and extensive ice movement both through the Lincoln Sea and Nares strait, and to the east out into the Atlantic via the Fram and Denmark straits.

Lastly, as the ice is nearing its terminal failure it is now thin enough for light to penetrate deeply through the ice. This shows up in the bluing of the ice beyond the bluing from pond formation. With the increased shattering of the ice, ponds are I suspect much less important now. Also, the light penetration is supporting increased algal growth under the ice. This is changing the melt rates and also the ecosystems under the ice.

I suspect that all of these are important. There may be others, like rotational dynamics of thinner ice crushing ice and creating polynyas that further increase melt rates, or wave action doing the same and increasing stirring. Several of these may be crossing thresholds in various dimensionless parameters that represent changes in dynamic conditions.

However, lacking hard data, it is hard to say for sure what the precise causes are.

Despite that we both expected to see things like this at the end of the age of arctic ice, and all of the trend lines point us to these. Data about the detailed causes may well (and I believe absolutely will) come after the time in which the data can have any meaning in doing anything at all about it.

Work involved in NASAs IceBridge may help us understand. However, this is also the very last year for the IceBridge project. And they are heavily focused on correlating data between the IceBridge and Satellite work. And so, that emphasis may delay anything that will help us in our understanding in the short term.

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Re: 2019 sea ice area and extent data
« Reply #1086 on: June 12, 2019, 05:16:35 PM »
Don't we have daily datas for NSIDC area ?

Because if i try to calculate what can be figures fitting with 5 days averages, it gives something like this :

25-mai-19   : -70k   
26-mai-19   : -60k   
27-mai-19   : -60k
28-mai-19    : -60k   
29-mai-19   : -60k (-62k av.)
30-mai-19   : -55k (-59k av.)
31-mai-19   : -65k (-60k av.)
01-juin-19 : -105k (-69k av.
02-juin-19 : -40k (-65k av.)
03-juin-19 : -20k (-57k av.)
04-juin-19 : -55k (-57k av.)
05-juin-19 : -55k (-55k av.)
06-juin-19 : -100k (-54k av.)
07-juin-19 : +50k (-36k av.)
08-juin-19 : +15k (-29k av.)
09-juin-19 : -95k (-37k av.)
10-juin-19 : -250k (-76k av.)
11-juin-19 : -255k (-107k av.)

If I'm not mistaken, next two days on trailing average will replace 2 days of positive variation, so we may have 5 days average change above 150k, even if 2 next days are rather weak.
I assume 5 first days were rather smooth, changing those datas may change all the other results but not much, though.

Neven has provided the daily figures for 6/10 (217k) and 6/11 (214k). Pushing the 5 day average to 150k+ is still not a given.

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Re: 2019 sea ice area and extent data
« Reply #1087 on: June 12, 2019, 05:29:18 PM »

Neven has provided the daily figures for 6/10 (217k) and 6/11 (214k). Pushing the 5 day average to 150k+ is still not a given.

Are the figures given by Neven the same than those used to calculate 5 days average (same model, same version ?).

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Re: 2019 sea ice area and extent data
« Reply #1088 on: June 12, 2019, 05:38:34 PM »
Sam, thanks for your attempt to answer my question, but to restate it, my issue was related to what's specifically going on with CAA (Canadian Arctic Archipelago).

The 5 day average loss has moved from <0 to >25k in the last 3 days for this region suggesting we lost 125k in just a few days. Given that the area was 675k a few days ago, the data is suggesting that the CAA lost 20% of it's ice in just a few days !!

Either the data is problematic or something important in happening in the CAA. Just trying to understand which one it is.

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Re: 2019 sea ice area and extent data
« Reply #1089 on: June 12, 2019, 05:46:57 PM »
Oops.

Sorry Rich, I lost my way on the way to trying to respond to your question.

As the ice fails in the central arctic, and most especially in the Nares strait, I suspect that we may also be seeing a similar change in the dynamics through all of the channels and straits in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

To be honest, I have been somewhat surprised at how resistant the archipelago has been to melting even as the areas immediately offshore to the north have broken open allowing surface exposure and ice breakup and movement of the pack ice into the Beaufort grinder. All of that had to be representative and part of a feedback in the ocean movement under that ice. And that turn seems likely to inevitably be involved in movement of water under the ice through the archipelago.

I have wondered if that hasn’t being dominated by flow south from the central arctic keeping temperatures colder and melt less in the archipelago. If that has reversed and water is flowing into the central arctic from warmer waters to the west and south, then this would all make sense.

Sam

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Re: 2019 sea ice area and extent data
« Reply #1090 on: June 12, 2019, 06:10:59 PM »

To be honest, I have been somewhat surprised at how resistant the archipelago has been to melting even as the areas immediately offshore to the north have broken open allowing surface exposure and ice breakup and movement of the pack ice into the Beaufort grinder. All of that had to be representative and part of a feedback in the ocean movement under that ice. And that turn seems likely to inevitably be involved in movement of water under the ice through the archipelago.

This is very normal behavior for ice. Tides enter the shallows making the largest dent where shallows begin, the shored ice may move a bit towards inland and the tide pulls the oceanic ice away. Same effect on lake ice when the winds change to opposite direction.

The melt water enters the channels probably making the CAA way less salty than rest of the margins of Central Arctic. Nares is the deepest of the channel, so hardest to block.

Writing otoh so errors can be present

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Re: 2019 sea ice area and extent data
« Reply #1091 on: June 12, 2019, 06:18:25 PM »
Sambucco, and Rich, and anyone else interested in the NSIDC numbers, you can download the spreadsheet and look at the actual data.
ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/DATASETS/NOAA/G02135/seaice_analysis/Sea_Ice_Index_Daily_Extent_G02135_v3.0.xlsx
The file contains a worksheet for the daily NH extent, and another for the 5-day averaged extent, which you can compare.
Note this is only for totals and only for extent. There's also a regional data file but it only contains 5-day averages of both extent and area data for each region.
« Last Edit: June 12, 2019, 07:32:38 PM by oren »

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Re: 2019 sea ice area and extent data
« Reply #1092 on: June 12, 2019, 06:32:45 PM »
Sambucco, and Rich, and anyone else interested in the NSIDC numbers, you can download the spreadsheet and look at the actual data.

I used to download that every day to look at the raw data. It's really easy to add a formula to calculate the daily extent drop, 5-day average drop or whatever.

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Re: 2019 sea ice area and extent data
« Reply #1093 on: June 12, 2019, 06:56:30 PM »
Sambucco, and Rich, and anyone else interested in the NSIDC numbers, you can download the spreadsheet and look at the actual data.

I used to download that every day to look at the raw data. It's really easy to add a formula to calculate the daily extent drop, 5-day average drop or whatever.

Thank you, Oren, but I can't have access to this FTP. You still confirm there is only five days average for area ?

Alphabet Hotel, it is indeed really easy to calculate an average from daily data. What is less easy is to find individual daily datas from 5 days average. What I tried to do.
I'm not mathematician, maybe there is a way to calculate it precisely ?




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Re: 2019 sea ice area and extent data
« Reply #1094 on: June 12, 2019, 07:13:48 PM »
5-day averages for N days require N+4 daily values. There is no way to calculate N+4 independent values from N.

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Re: 2019 sea ice area and extent data
« Reply #1095 on: June 12, 2019, 07:21:01 PM »
Sambucco, and Rich, and anyone else interested in the NSIDC numbers, you can download the spreadsheet and look at the actual data.

I used to download that every day to look at the raw data. It's really easy to add a formula to calculate the daily extent drop, 5-day average drop or whatever.

Thank you, Oren, but I can't have access to this FTP. You still confirm there is only five days average for area ?

Alphabet Hotel, it is indeed really easy to calculate an average from daily data. What is less easy is to find individual daily datas from 5 days average. What I tried to do.
I'm not mathematician, maybe there is a way to calculate it precisely ?

The link has an error.  It should be ftp:// which it shows in the text but the hyperlink has ftp//

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Re: 2019 sea ice area and extent data
« Reply #1096 on: June 12, 2019, 07:27:41 PM »
5-day averages for N days require N+4 daily values. There is no way to calculate N+4 independent values from N.
Well you can assume the first values to reasonable numbers, and the longer the N the smaller the error in inferring.

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Re: 2019 sea ice area and extent data
« Reply #1097 on: June 12, 2019, 07:33:44 PM »
Thakn you friedmators. Here is the corrected link. I just pasted it instead of marking as a URL (which added http in front of the ftp).
ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/DATASETS/NOAA/G02135/seaice_analysis/Sea_Ice_Index_Daily_Extent_G02135_v3.0.xlsx

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Re: 2019 sea ice area and extent data
« Reply #1098 on: June 12, 2019, 07:34:26 PM »
Sam, thanks for your attempt to answer my question, but to restate it, my issue was related to what's specifically going on with CAA (Canadian Arctic Archipelago).

The 5 day average loss has moved from <0 to >25k in the last 3 days for this region suggesting we lost 125k in just a few days. Given that the area was 675k a few days ago, the data is suggesting that the CAA lost 20% of it's ice in just a few days !!

Either the data is problematic or something important in happening in the CAA. Just trying to understand which one it is.
There was a strong high pressure over Greenland forecasted days ago, which would pull warm air over CAA. While the initial forecast was much warmer, the circulation is still present and somehow coupled with the low over Beaufort. Bad sketch below with the pressure forecast for today
Btw it is pretty normal what’s  going on in CAA and it’s coming with some delay wrt other years
« Last Edit: June 12, 2019, 07:52:40 PM by Sterks »

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Re: 2019 sea ice area and extent data
« Reply #1099 on: June 12, 2019, 07:36:40 PM »
Well you can assume the first values to reasonable numbers, and the longer the N the smaller the error in inferring.
I thought about it. In this case error is depending on error in the first numbers and is not getting smaller with higher N.