Happy New Year 2024 (and sorry for the forum being offline some hours) /DM
Where is day 261?
Regarding the AMSR2 (L2, L3 (geophysical parameter)) products released on May 17, 2013, JAXA released the new version of Soil moisture content and Sea ice concentrationproducts on September 25, 2013.Some input parameters for SIC algorithm were modified.(The brightness temperature correction on tie-point making algorithm was modified.) SIC products are not reprocessed because there is little impact of this update on the accuracy.
Looks like a very fast growing season this year. Maybe we won't see summer ice-free Arctic before 2020 after all.
Quote from: domen_ on October 04, 2013, 12:22:18 PMLooks like a very fast growing season this year. Maybe we won't see summer ice-free Arctic before 2020 after all.If official models correct not many of us will live long enouph to see summer ice-free Arctic in 2080-2100
Extent is expanding rapidly. If this trend keeps up, we may reach the 2000's average extent before the end of October. Are temperatures in the Arctic still unusually low?
IJIS:6,796,978 km2 (October 12, 2013) up 131,429 km2 from previous.300,746 km2 below 2000s average for this date.
IJIS:7,029,839 km2 (October 14, 2013) up 143,012 km2 from previous.291,931 km2 below 2000s average for this date.