I have great news for those who want a new record low.
The Great Arctic Cyclone gets too much credit where they big drop in 2012.
Hello okay animation showing every 3 days from July 15th 2012 until August 8th 2012. And you can clearly see that the Pacific side in 2012 slowly decayed leading up to The Great Arctic cyclone
I don't know what you're looking at bc while certainly losses were noticeable prior to the 2nd, it gets absolutely obliterated between the 2nd and 8th. You can watch it happen, in your own animation. The following...
by the time the GAC happened entire Pacific side was already almost melted out.
...simply is not accurate. The numbers back this up. As I have already shown in posts over the last few days, the weeks before and after Aug. 2nd ~ 8th were normal extent losses, while the 2nd to the 8th registered a loss of 990k sq kms.
it seems that the slightly above-average drink cyclone in Late July is what prep the ice.
There certainly was some losses before the 8th, but the JAXA ASIE numbers don't show this as heavy losses until the 2nd.
it's pretty clear that 90 + percent of the ice loss in 2012 would have happened even if the GAC never happened.
True, but I think you were speaking via hyperbole and didn't actually do the math. Any given week is only going to equal about 1/26th or 1/27th of total ice loss on average, or, very roughly, around 407.4~426k kms sq. The GAC week wiped out 990k kms sq, or more than double the average, and, without searching out my own post from days ago, almost double the week before (and after) which you analyze as being when the real destruction happened.
I don't know, maybe the area numbers are completely opposite this, but I seriously doubt it.
You are literally using sea ice extent lost crime to quantify ice melting. Or volume loss or thickness loss which is a three dimensional observation.
Between July 15th and August 5th 2012 which was the day before The Great Arctic cyclone bombed-out.
The entire Pacific side at Large.
So almost all of the Ice Melt Away.
Using sea ice extent to quantify this means nothing.
the ice as it was in the middle of July 2012 wouldn't have melted out at all if the Great Arctic Cyclone took place then.
I'm just going to animate July 15th and August 5th and if you can't see did decimation on the Pacific side of the Arctic between those dates right before the Great Arctic cyclone took place then you are being disengenous.
Because even someone who has no understanding of using AMSR2 GRAPHICS.
could pick up instantly what the animation below is showing.
AMSR2 CHANNEL 36 GHZ ... Is good at picking up water vapour/water volume/density.
Basically this scanning CHANNEL can detect water density. This makes it good at not only detecting the ice surface.
It is good at detecting whether or not the near ice surface is liquid or frozen.
It can also detect water density not ONLY IN ICE BUT ALSO THROUGH ICE.
So this can be used as a CRUDE way to determine ice thickness/density.
While we clearly don't have a direct measurement of the ice thickness.
Its pretty freaking obvious that on July 15th you can see that the ice had that mostly whitish color.
Like most of the Arctic Basin did
Then we see August 5th the day before The Great Arctic Cyclone bombed out.
we can clearly see that most of the ice on the Pacific side is literally almost gone.
Of course on the sea ice concentration graphics this ice up to that point. Was above the 15% percent extent threshold.
The GAC came along and finished the job.
To me this is very obvious. I think having this tool and this information to give us a better more detailed time line of how the 2012 arctic sea ice pack fared is fantastic, absolutely top notch.