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To: IC720 who wrote (1250826)

7/30/2020 6:23:35 PM

From: Wharf Rat

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What do you make of this?

Possible disintegration of a large section of the #Arctic ice pack due to the storm, or evidence of fragile ice that was about to thaw and break apart anyway? pic.twitter.com/AqcFXL43bj
— Samuel Hayes (@Icy_Samuel) July 30, 2020

NSIDC Total Area as at 29-Jul-2020 (5 day trailing average) 3,999,723 KM2

Total Area
3,999,723 km2
-674,231 km2 < 2010's average.
-371,569 km2 < 2019
-1,481,182 km2 < 2000's average.

Total Change -106 k loss
Peripheral Seas -17 k loss
Central Seas___ -90 k loss

Peripheral Seas
Okhotsk______ 0 k gain
Bering _______ 0 k gain
Hudson Bay___ -2 k loss
Baffin Bay____ -2 k loss
St Lawrence___ 0 k gain
Greenland____ -12 k loss
Barents ______ -1 k loss

Central Arctic Ocean Seas
Chukchi______ -12 k loss
Beaufort_____ -8 k loss
CAA_________ -13 k loss
East Siberian__ -7 k loss
Central Arctic_ -50 k loss
Laptev_______ 2 k gain
Kara_________ -2 k loss

Sea ice area loss on this day 106 k, 59 k more than the 2010's average loss of 47 k

- 2020 area is at position #1 in the satellite record.
- 2020 Area is 674 k less than the 2010's average
- 2020 Area is 1,481 k less than the 2000's average
- 2020 Area is 480 k less than 2016
- 2020 Area is 372 k less than 2019
- 2020 Area is 289 k less than 2012
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NSIDC Total EXTENT as at 29-Jul-2020 (5 day trailing average) 6,175,097 KM2

NSIDC Sea ice EXTENT loss on this day 44 k, 32 k less than the 2010's average loss of 76k

- 2020 EXTENT is at position #1 in the satellite record.
- 2020 EXTENT is 829 k less than the 2010's average
- 2020 EXTENT is 1,706 k less than the 2000's average
- 2020 EXTENT is 891 k less than 2016
- 2020 EXTENT is 311 k less than 2019
- 2020 EXTENT is 524 k less than 2012
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Daily sea ice Area losses have been above 100k for 4 days in a row.
Total Area has been lowest in the satellite record for 7 days in a row.
Can't just be the sensors getting fooled, especially as the data is 5 day trailing average, which tends to smooth out oddities.

Total Extent has been lowest in the satellite record for 23 days in a row.
No matter what the final outcome, that's quite a bit of the unused part of the graph paper with a big fat line on it.

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