Sea Ice Max Continues Downward Trend

Satellite measurements recorded the 5th lowest Arctic sea ice maximum extent on record. The top ten smallest maxima have all occurred in the past ten years.

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NASA Earth Observatory images 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 and the Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) on the Nimbus-7 satellite. Caption by Maria-Jose Vinas, NASA Earth Science News Team, and Mike Carlowicz, Earth Observatory.

Published April 4, 2013
Data acquired March 15, 2013

Source:

GCOM-W1 > AMSR-2

Topic:

Cryosphere > Sea Ice > Sea Ice Concentration