Here's a blog post I just read on Andreas Muenchow's Icy Seas blog:
Is Petermann Gletscher Breaking Apart this Summer?
I am disturbed by new ocean data from Greenland every morning before breakfast these days. In 2015 we built a station…
Here's a quick blog post, which is mostly a copy of a comment I just wrote on the 2017 melting season thread on the Arctic Sea Ice Forum. For those who want to know more about what melting momentum means,…
Another month has passed and so here is the updated Arctic sea ice volume graph as calculated by the Pan-Arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System (PIOMAS) at the Polar Science Center:
Finally some good news, relatively speaking. The cold…
Another month has passed and so here is the updated Arctic sea ice volume graph as calculated by the Pan-Arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System (PIOMAS) at the Polar Science Center:
It's no surprise 2017 is still lowest on…
Another month has passed and so here is the updated Arctic sea ice volume graph as calculated by the Pan-Arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System (PIOMAS) at the Polar Science Center:
Just like last month, there haven't been any…
After a drop of almost 262 thousand km2 in just three days, it looks highly likely that the maximum for sea ice extent was reached two weeks ago, according to the data provided by JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency…
I'm still travelling, so this is a short update. I'll be back home again tonight and will then finish the post, so be sure to check in again later.
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Another month has passed and so here is the updated…
Another month has passed and so here is the updated Arctic sea ice volume graph as calculated by the Pan-Arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System (PIOMAS) at the Polar Science Center:
Things just keep getting worse. After this year's…
Quote from the latest PIOMAS update (10 days ago):
There's just no end to this run we have had with anomalously warm temperatures, and storms blowing in from the Atlantic.
As we speak, a very powerful winter storm is battering…
Sabbatical or not, records must be reported (like I did last year, here and here, albeit a month later).
According to NSIDC data, the Global sea ice area record for lowest minimum has just been broken, as shown on this…
Another month has passed and so here is the updated Arctic sea ice volume graph as calculated by the Pan-Arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System (PIOMAS) at the Polar Science Center:
2016 has come to a close, and unfortunately…
Here's a short blog post for all of you out there publishing in the scientific literature (you know who you are). There's little less than a week left to submit your papers to the various sessions organized at this year's…
Here's a great blog post by Tamino that tells this year's Arctic sea ice story and how a few cowards continuously lie(d) about it to their fellow men:
Global Warming 2016: Arctic Spin
The useful thing about a canary in a…
Regular readers of the Arctic Sea Ice Blog will be aware that Neven has, not entirely successfully, been "on sabbatical" for a while. During that time assorted inaccuracies about Neven himself and about the state of sea ice in the Arctic…
Another month has passed and so here is the updated Arctic sea ice volume graph as calculated by the Pan-Arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System (PIOMAS) at the Polar Science Center:
Well, November definitely was an Oh Jesus-month. Just…
I've alluded to it a couple of times already, but I'm really going to take a break from blogging, as I have been struggling with an Arctic burn-out since 2012. On the one hand it's caused by everything that has…
Another month has passed and so here is the updated Arctic sea ice volume graph as calculated by the Pan-Arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System (PIOMAS) at the Polar Science Center:
Do you see that 2016 trend line simply…
Another month has passed and so here is the updated Arctic sea ice volume graph as calculated by the Pan-Arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System (PIOMAS) at the Polar Science Center:
The minimum was reached in September for modelled…
The Arctic year started with the warmest January and February on record:
The mild winter led to one of the lowest maximums on record, lowest even on some graphs.
And then in April, just before the melting season started, things…
Last week, NSIDC scientist Andrew Slater died unexpectedly. It goes without saying that the news shocked me, and I wasn't the only one (here's the memorial web page).
I had never met him, although we mailed once or twice in…
During the melting season I'm writing (bi-)weekly updates on the current situation with regards to Arctic sea ice (ASI). Because of issues with data based on the SSMIS sensor aboard DMSP satellites, I mainly focus on higher-resolution AMSR2 data from…
Another month has passed and so here is the updated Arctic sea ice volume graph as calculated by the Pan-Arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System (PIOMAS) at the Polar Science Center:
Weather conditions in the past month - the…
As reported in the last ASI update, the forecast Dipole has now set up. Yesterday's last analysis chart provided by Environment Canada, at 18Z, showed the high pressure moving in via the Bering Strait at 1037 hPa, while a rapidly…
During the melting season I'm writing (bi-)weekly updates on the current situation with regards to Arctic sea ice (ASI). Because of issues with data based on the SSMIS sensor aboard DMSP satellites, I mainly focus on higher-resolution AMSR2 data from…
Two days have passed since the previous update, and in those two days the storm re-intensified, bottomed out at 971 hPa (slightly higher than the first lowest central pressure of 968 hPa), as can be seen on the image on…
The third and last Sea Ice Outlook of this year has been published. The SIO is organized by the Sea Ice Prediction Network (as part of the Arctic research program 'Study of Environmental Arctic Change', or SEARCH), and is a…
So, the storm has been raging for a while now. The latest Environment Canada weather map shows it's at 984 hPa.
According to this tweet by PhD climatologist Brian Brettschneider a IABP buoy from the University of Washington measured a…
As announced in ASI 2016 update 5 a very large cyclone is raging in the Arctic, as we speak. According to Environment Canada the storm's current central pressure is 970 hPa, but it was 968 hPa 12 hours ago, which…
