Friday, September 30, 2016

Chaos after the big de-coiling wave..

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    There are no more uni-directional flowing of this sea ice area centered about 81.3 N 170.8 E. Sea ice is moving SSE in the right up...
Thursday, September 29, 2016

Looking for 2016 Minima Sea ice dispersion "Big Bang" moment

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 Impressive  large mass of de-coiling sea ice ^^^^^^^^^^likely in tandem with winds occurred when minima was called (September 9) ,  this h...
Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Densest pack changes flow direction with ease, at the weakest wind direction change

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     The Northwards Bound tracking Pack Ice changed direction,  Southwards on September 26:  CMC september 27 00z,  a very modest Low...
Sunday, September 25, 2016

Raining during an Arctic heat wave, when snow use to reign.

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Today's -0.8 C sea surface temperature  was in a Bay loaded with multiyear ice. notice how clean Arctic Sea water is.  Temperature nea...
Saturday, September 24, 2016

Dense pack keeps on dispersing with leads widening in very warm temperatures.

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     Displacement of densest pack ice (83.5 N 111 W)  has accelerated!   From 3 to 4.4 nautical miles Northwards a day.  Expansion between...

Late September heat wave 74.7 North 95 West

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Listen at melting sea ice so late in September with temperature 8 degrees above the daily maximum average.      At 67 meters above...
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Friday, September 23, 2016

2016 is a dispersed melt season with significant differences with a more compact 2012 within densest remaining pack ice.

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    2016 smack where the densest ice should be has had a lot of open water.   2012 same location slightly to the North of above (becaus...
Thursday, September 22, 2016

Snow or Grey ice or a mix of both? + Rapid displacements at minima.

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  September 21  location                             VVVVVVV  I calculate 30.6 nautical miles displacement in 5 days,  note ^^^^^^^^^...
Tuesday, September 20, 2016

+0.5 C cloudy weather melts submerged snow, but reappears after overnight snow showers

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A day has past  and some ice multi-year ice has moved away along with much less floating/submerged snow.   Company,  2 Polar bear...
Monday, September 19, 2016

JAXA Density jumps

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 September 17 2016 JAXA vast great expanse of open water finally showed quite well,  and is comparable to sat picture: But It di...