Arctic Sea Ice Melting and Moving

A new NASA analysis has quantified for the first time the amount of “multi-year” ice that is being lost from the Arctic Ocean due to melting as opposed to export.

---

NASA Images by Robert Simmon, adapted from Kwok 2010. RADARSAT image © 2010 Canadian Space Agency. Caption by Kathryn Hansen and Mike Carlowicz.

Published November 10, 2010
Data acquired April 30 - November 30, 2008

Source:

RADARSAT