The extent decline resumes, extent is now again at the lowest value this year. Not likely to happen for area that increased again, gap is about 250k, resulting in a very early date for the (preliminary) minimum, first of September.
Update 20170908.
Extent: -35.9 (+616k vs 2016, +350k vs 2015, -415k vs 2014, -408k vs 2013, +1217k vs 2012)
Area: +30.5 (+921k vs 2016, +421k vs 2015, -260k vs 2014, -427k vs 2013, +1230k vs 2012)
The details (in 1000 km2):
Extent:
Central Arctic Basin East Siberian Sea Laptev Sea
-9.3 -8.6 5.3
Kara Sea Barents Sea Greenland Sea
-0.4 -0.1 -5.5
Baffin/Newfoundland Bay St. Lawrence Hudson Bay
5.8 0.0 1.5
Canadian Archipelago Beaufort Sea Chukchi Sea
-16.0 -8.3 -0.4
Bering Sea Sea of Okhotsk Total Extent
0.0 0.0 -35.9
Area:
Central Arctic Basin East Siberian Sea Laptev Sea
55.4 -6.4 4.2
Kara Sea Barents Sea Greenland Sea
-0.5 -0.1 -6.2
Baffin/Newfoundland Bay St. Lawrence Hudson Bay
3.4 0.0 1.1
Canadian Archipelago Beaufort Sea Chukchi Sea
-8.0 -11.9 -0.4
Bering Sea Sea of Okhotsk Total Area
0.0 0.0 30.5
Delta map attached: red/blue means the concentration went below/over the 15% cut-off. Reddish/bluish means the concentration decreased/increased by more than 7%.