The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Three weeks into June, Arctic ice is still plentiful The graph below show ice extents up to yesterday, June 23, 2017, day 174.
After a dip, 2017 is again above the decadal average, 300k km2 greater than 2007, and 500k km2 larger than 2016. SII 2017 is presently showing 400k km2 less ice than MASIE does with its higher resolution. 2016 went below 10M km2 for the first time on its way to an annual minimum of 4.2M in September.
Barents Sea shows a surplus of 2017 sea ice extents inside the Arctic Circle. The graph below shows Barents this year compared to average and other years.
The black line is average for the last 11 years. 2007 in purple appears close to an average year. 2014 had the highest annual extent in Barents Sea, due to higher and later maximums, holding onto ice…
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