In merely 3 days, with air temperatures not so favorable, a few degrees below zero degrees centigrade, but above average for this time of the year, the greatest melting action so late demonstrates the real nature of 2014 melting season, which was really influenced by 2013 great cloud summer event. To recognize a a wider recovery of sea ice, one must see it more expansive than the year prior, and more thicker. Piomas may recognize a thicker ice, but the extensiveness is largely different than 2013, when the ice melted in place without compaction. The net difference is insolation of the open water around the lower latitudes of the Arctic ocean, a recovery would not allow the sun the warm up sea water particularly at these latitudes. This invites the stalling of accretion, an eventual less thicker ice at next maxima. But also this scene shows that ice may vanish with air temperatures below 0 C. This is a key factor in the coming wide open Arctic Ocean, sea temperature in turn to be excessive, warms up the ice to a critical temperature point. When reached the ice simply vanishes, the sooner it goes in spring time, the greater the melt in autumn. WD September 14, 2014
