evaporativecooler

Winter is already here though, just not at our latitude. Insolation is declining every day and snowcover is at most a couple of weeks away from beginning it's inexorable advance south from Ellesmere Island and other birthing places in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. If anything it's too late, and June 21st would've been more appropriate. Disregarding speculation about this year's ENSO, we have some interesting signs across the board in the Atlantic domain, which has all but flipped from last year with strong trades and persistant + NAO. Would be interesting to see how analogs work out.

I work in this field, it's not that hidden. Here are some helpful links: Sea Ice Thickness, freeboard, + lots of extras if you know how to plot netCDF https://n5eil01u.ecs.nsidc.org/ICEBRIDGE/RDEFT4.001/ http://data.seaiceportal.de/gallery/index_new.php?lang=en_US&active-tab1=method&active-tab2=satellite http://www.cpom.ucl.ac.uk/csopr/seaice.html Good general reference: https://sites.google.com/site/arcticseaicegraphs/ Arctic weather forecasts: https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/models/?model=gfs&region=nhem&pkg=z500a&runtime=2018010212&fh=-12

Jesus Christ this is the worst thread on this board, someone needs to clean up for sure. Arctic sea ice measurement and dynamics is a legitimate science not some political football. It deserves a quality discussion.

Don't have to guess around about Arctic sea ice thickness anymore these days. Cryosat is pretty damn reliable as far as freeboard goes. This year doesn't look so bad in the central Arctic. Linky: http://cryosat.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/qa/freeboard.php 2017 November 10th to Dec 9th 2016 15th Nov to 14th Dec 2012 6th November to 5th December