Arctic Sea Ice Below Average in Winter 2023

The end-of-winter sea ice extent in March 2023 was the fifth lowest in the satellite record.

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NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center. Story by Kathryn Hansen. Video produced by Jefferson Beck with visualization by Trent Schindler, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio.

Published March 22, 2023
Data acquired March 6, 2023

Sources:

DMSP > SSM/I

DMSP > SSMIS

Nimbus 7 > SMMR