Arctic Ice Roaring Back Following Halloween
The animation shows Arctic ice recovery from October 10 to October 31, 2022. On the lower center right, Canadian Arctic Archipelago (CAA) freezes over entirely more than doubling up to 832k km2, 97% of its maximum. Center bottom Beaufort Sea closes off the NW passage, reaching 1 Wadham in just that basin, 95% of its max. On the left, the Russian shelf seas fill with ice, closing off the Northern Sea Route. Laptev and East Siberian seas reached 100% of their maxes, together adding 2 Wadhams of ice extent.
The graph below shows Mid November daily ice extents for 2022 compared to 16 year averages, and some years of note. As of yesterday, Arctic ice extent tops 10 Wadhams, or 10M km2.
The black line shows during this period on average Arctic ice extents increase ~3.5M km2 from ~6.4M km2 up to ~9.9M km2. …
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