JAXA ARCTIC SEA ICE EXTENT: 12,757,145 KM2 as at 01-May-2024
- Extent loss on this day 21k, 29 k less than the average loss on this day (of the last 10 years) of 50k,
- Extent loss from maximum on this date is 1,654 k, which is 114 k, 7.4% more than the 10 year average of 1,540 k.
- Extent is 10th lowest in the 45 year satellite record.
- Extent is 32 k LESS than 2023,
- Extent is 11 k LESS than 2022,
- Extent is 29 k MORE than 2021,
- Extent is 176 k MORE than 2020,
- Extent is 521 k MORE than 2019,
- Extent is 562 k MORE than 2016
- Extent is 296 k LESS than 2012
- Extent is 40 k MORE than the 2010's Average
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On average 15.6% of extent losses from maximum to minimum done, and on average 135 days to minimum
Projections. (Table JAXA-Arc1)
Average remaining extent loss (of the last 10 years) would produce a minimum in September 2023 of 4.45 million km2, 1.27 million km2 above the Sept 2012 record low minimum of 3.18 million km2, and 9th lowest in the satellite record
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