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2019 Arctic Sea Ice Minimum Is Second Lowest

The long-term trend for Arctic sea ice extent has been definitively downward.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story 2019 Arctic Sea Ice Minimum Is Second Lowest.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center. NASA photograph by Linette Boisvert. Story by Maria-José Viñas, NASA’s Earth Science News Team.

Published September 23, 2019
Data acquired September 18, 2019

Sources:: DMSP > SSM/I; DMSP > SSMIS; Nimbus 7 > SMMR; Photograph