JAXA ARCTIC SEA ICE EXTENT 12,474,725 km2(January 2, 2020)
- Extent gain on this day 43 k, 3 k LESS than the average gain (of the last 10 years) of 46 k,
- Extent gain in this freezing season to date is 8,510 k, 526 k (6.6%) MORE than the average last 10 years gain to date of 7,984 k.
- Extent is 7th lowest in the satellite record,
- Extent is 338 k more than 2017
- Extent is 20 k more than 2019
- Extent is 88 k (0.7%) more than the 2010's average.
- on average 81.1 % of extent gain for the the season done, 68 days on average to maximum.
We are well into the period when usually extent gains slow down - recently has seen some well above average gains.
Projections.
Average remaining extent gain in the last 10 years from this date produces a maximum of 14.31 million km2, above the lowest in the satellite record by 0.43 million km2.
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Ice Gain Outlook??
+ve SST (but diminishing) anomalies persist in parts of the Bering Sea, the southern end of Baffin Bay, and a patch south of Svalbard.
GFS says Arctic temperature anomalies range from +0.5 to +1.6 celsius over the next 5 days,
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