No NSIDC data update yetperhaps at NSIDC (and elsewhere in the science community) they all got smashed/legless/kale-eyed/worse for wear at the goodbye Trump party?
NSIDC Data arrives at 11 a.m. Colorado time - some of the staff eventually turned up after last night's bash?NSIDC Total AREA as at 20-Jan-2021 (5 day trailing average) 11,745,247 KM2 Total Area 11,745,247 km2 -231,819 km2 < 2010's average. -398,572 km2 < 2020 522,862 km2 > 2017 Total Change 37 k gain Peripheral Seas 12 k gain Central Seas___ 26 k gain Peripheral Seas Okhotsk______ 1 k gain Bering _______ 9 k gain Hudson Bay___ 7 k gain Baffin Bay____ -7 k loss St Lawrence___ -0 k loss Greenland____ -2 k loss Barents ______ 4 k gain Central Arctic Ocean Seas Chukchi______ 6 k gain Beaufort_____ 1 k gain CAA_________ -1 k loss East Siberian__ 3 k gain Central Arctic_ -1 k loss Laptev_______ 0 k gain Kara_________ 18 k gain
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Sea ice area gain on this day 37 k, 7 k more than the 2010's average gain of 30 k
- Area is at position #3 in the satellite record.
- Area is 232 k less than the 2010's average
- Area is 523 k more than 2017
- Area is 125 k less than 2016
- Area is 399 k less than 2020
- Area is 358 k less than 2012
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NSIDC Total EXTENT as at 20-Jan-2021 (5 day trailing average) 13,556,588 KM2 NSIDC Sea ice EXTENT gain on this day 37 k, 3 k more than the 2010's average gain of 34k
- EXTENT is at position #8 in the satellite record.
- EXTENT is 107 k more than the 2010's average
- EXTENT is 564 k more than 2017
- EXTENT is 128 k more than 2016
- EXTENT is 85 k less than 2020
- EXTENT is 17 k more than 2012
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