By Paul Homewood
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/icecover.uk.php
Arctic sea ice extent may not quite have reached minimum yet, but indications are that more or less bottomed out. According to NSIDC, extent has only decreased by 48,000 sq km since the start of the month.
DMI show the 15% ice cover above as being well above 2011. The 30% cover, below, also indicates a higher minimum extent than both 2011 and 2008.
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/old_icecover.uk.php
Oddly, however, NSIDC are showing a much lower figure for this year, barely above 2011, and well below 2008.
ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/DATASETS/NOAA/G02135/north/daily/data/NH_seaice_extent_nrt.csv
Meanwhile, NORSEX still appear to have problems with their data. Following last week’s data problems, their system went down “for maintenance” for a couple of days. It is now back up, but data for this year only runs up to early August. Fortunately I have kept a copy of their graph…
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