NSIDC Total Area as at 14 June 2019 (5 day trailing average) 8,648,482 km2 Total Area 8,648,482 km2 -316,421 km2 < 2010's average. -358,489 k < 2018 -953,931 k < 2000's average.
Total Area Change -154 k loss Peripheral Seas -27 k loss Central Seas__ -120 k loss Other Seas___ -7 k loss Peripheral Seas Bering _______ -0 k loss Baffin Bay____ -19 k loss Greenland____ -7 k loss Barents ______ -0 k loss CAB Seas Beaufort_____ 4 k gain CAA_________ -20 k loss East Siberian__ -33 k loss Central Arctic_ -24 k loss Kara_________ -12 k loss Laptev_______ -27 k loss Chukchi______ -7 k loss Other Seas Okhotsk______ -0 k loss St Lawrence___ 0 k gain Hudson Bay___ -6 k loss
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Area loss 154 k, 66 K MORE than the 2010's average loss of 88 k on this day.
Total area
still 3rd lowest (101 k greater than 2016, and 242 k greater than 2012).
Other StuffGFS shows temperature anomalies look very odd so not given Is this the new version of GFS at work ?
However, the images still suggest 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 mixed with contrasting -ve anomalies at times especially on the American side in the Beaufort and CAA, and NE Europe.
You don't see such a rapid change in the 5 day average loss or such high daily loss very often, especially 2 days in a row, though 2012 was dropping even faster. How long will it last?
Note that NSIDC daily extent increased in the last 3 days and is now back to 5th lowest by a smidgeon, and that JAXA daily extent loss continued at below average until increasing by 6 k and 14k in the last 2 days.. So when looking at differences with 2012 and 2016, the area data is converging strongly to the extent data.
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Interesting times over the next few days? I think that for myself from now on I will only call Arctic Ice lowest when JAXA extent and NSIDC extent and NSIDC area all show it.