Arctic Sea Ice Extent, Area, and Volume

[lookingnorth]

It looks like the Antarctic sea ice extent gap is down to 187,000 km^2.

[so_whats_happening]

On 2/11/2024 at 9:21 AM, bowtie` said:

I do not see any spaghetti lines anywhere near where we are right now.

It is no wonder with a look like this

[Typhoon Tip]

We spend all this time obsessing over the Arctic when in so far as climate change ramifications is a concern... it's the other one that's the biggest problem. 

https://phys.org/news/2024-03-scientists-fret-antarctic-sea-ice.html

 

But... I don't really think a lot of the Arctic focus in here is really about climate change per se.  More about preserving chances for cold and snow in people's winters, and having connected that to the state of north pole. Call me a 'motivational cynic' -

[Taylorsweather]

So it looks like extent in the Arctic reached 15.1M on 3/11.  Probably does not get higher than that but there is a small chance it could.  That said, that is the highest extent in winter since 2014.  Surprised no one mentioned it.

[so_whats_happening]

Probably a bit too early to know for sure but there does seem to be some see-sawing situation between the poles. Will be interesting to watch it over the next 5 years.

Thickness levels I don't think can recover meaningfully going forward but we shall what happens with extent (not that this is all too important in the long run).

[Typhoon Tip]

https://phys.org/news/2024-03-antarctic-sea-ice-historic-lows.html

[FPizz]

On 3/26/2024 at 9:37 AM, Typhoon Tip said:

https://phys.org/news/2024-03-antarctic-sea-ice-historic-lows.html

The satellites that measured the ice from say 79-90 vs the 1000s more we have today, do you think that makes a difference at all?  They are probably way more precise today with many more doing calculations than the handful we had 40 years ago.  I wonder if we were to use 1980 tech to measure today what that would have come up with.