Visualizing the 2012 Sea Ice Minimum

These maps compare Arctic sea ice minimum extents in 1984 (a year with average coverage) and 2012 (the new record low).

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NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using data from the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 AMSR-2 sensor on the Global Change Observation Mission 1st-Water (GCOM-W1) satellite. Caption by Michon Scott and Mike Carlowicz.

Published September 27, 2012
Data acquired September 13, 2012

Source:

GCOM-W1 > AMSR-2